"post station" is correct and usable in written English.
It is most often used to refer to a building or other structure where mail is sent and received. For example: "The village post office was originally a post station set up by the military long ago."
Nagano later developed as a market town and post station along the Hokkoku Road.
A castle town in early times, it became a post station and river port during the Tokugawa period (1603 1867).
Fuji was a post station along the Tōkaidō ("Eastern Sea Road") during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 1867).
Hamamatsu was a post station on the Tōkaidō ("Eastern Sea Road")—the main historic land route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyōto during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 1868).
However, Kanagawa was an important post station on the Tōkaidō, Japan's main east-west road at the time, and the Japanese government did not want foreigners to have access to it.
The town was a post station on the Tōkaidō ("Eastern Sea Road")—the main historic land route between Edo (Tokyo) and Kyōto during the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 1868).
The major cities in the prefecture, including Hamamatsu and Shizuoka, lie along the line; they were important post stations along the historic route.
The cobweb survives in main arteries that radiate out from the centre, leaving the old city through post stations called the Five Mouths.
Travelers carried letters and city newspapers to the local residents, and would stay overnight at these inns, many of which served as post stations.
During the Edo (Tokugawa) period (1603 1867), Kawasaki was one of the last post stations on the Tōkaidō ("Eastern Sea Road")—the main historic land route between Edo (now Tokyo) and Kyōto before the road reached Edo.
While the Grand Canal had its post stations, canal locks, ramps, moles, and paved towpaths, the land route from Beijing to the Yalu River was less elaborate but still featured the necessary distance markers and walled stations.
