was the sixty-sixth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendà  highway connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It was located in the present-day city of à Âmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Other kanji used to write "Musa" included çÂÂä½ and 身çÂÂ, but æ¦你became the official kanji in the Edo period.
Musa-juku was one of the original staging points on the ancient Tà Âsandà  highway connecting the capital of Heian-kyà  with the provinces of eastern Japan from the end of the Nara period onwards. During the Sengoku period, the nearby jà Âkamachi of à Âmihachiman was developed by Toyotomi Hidetsugu, and many traveling merchants () relocated to this area from the ruins of Azuchi Castle. A road from Musa-juku extended towards Ise Province via Eigen-ji temple and the town of Yà Âkaichi, which was used by the à Âmi shà Ânin for transport of seafood, paper and cloth. The speciality product of Musa-juku was the Musa-masu, (also known as the à Âmi-masu) a square wooden of fixed dimensions traditionally used to measure rice. However, this product fell out of favor when Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified the country's measurement system on the Kyà Â-masu which was used in Kyoto. Another local speciality was Inkstick made from bamboo ashes.
In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Nakasendà  was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1602. Musa-juku was on the sankin-kà Âtai route by the Kishà « Tokugawa clan and other western daimyà  en route to-and-from the Shogun's court in Edo; however, due to its proximity to the much-larger Otsu-juku and the fact that it was not on the marginally shorter which ran closer to the shore of Lake Biwa, bypassing three stations of the Nakasendà  including Musa-juku, meant that it attracted less traffic. The area around Musa-juku was prosperous, with fertile, well-watered soil, and the area was noted for its production of rice, hemp and linen.
Per an 1843 the guidebook issued by the , the town had a population of 537 in 183 houses, including one honjin, one waki-honjin, and 23 hatago. Musa-juku is 488.1 kilometers from Edo.
Following the Meiji restoration and the construction of the Tà Âkaidà  Main Line railway, Musa-juku fell into rapid decline, since a railway station was not constructed in the vicinity. As a result, a number of buildings are well-preserved; however, the Nakamura-ya hatago, built over 200 years ago, was destroyed in a fire in 2010.
Utagawa Hiroshige's ukiyo-e print of Musa-juku dates from 1835 -1838. The print depicts travelers crossing a pontoon bridge across the Hinogawa River rather than the post station itself. The area around Musa-juku was flat, but travelers had to cross a number of rivers. In the print, a samurai waits on the river bank while a man with a heavy burden and a traveller in a plaid jacket are crossing, while two pilgrims are crossing from the opposite side. A women, her lower legs exposed is hurrying after a man on the far bank. A small building, possibly a tea house, is on the far bank in the distance, and a seated figure can be seen in silhouette.