The scene at Kusatsu Station takes on the commercial feel of a city scene, with a dry goods shop in the background and a pair of bearers carrying large loads of goods, rushing by each other in opposite directions. Kustatsu was the point where two major roads met, and the town prospered commercially, as Hiroshige has represented.

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