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The 69 Stations of the Nakasendō (中山道六十九次, Nakasendō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) are the rest areas along the Nakasendō, which ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto. [1] [2] The route stretched approximately 534 km (332 mi) and was an alternate trade route to the Tōkaidō. [1]
Original ishidatami (stone paving) on the Nakasendō The Five Routes. The Nakasendō (中山道, Central Mountain Route), also called the Kisokaidō (木曾街道), [1] was one of the centrally administered five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.
Beijing 5-204 Wofo Temple: 十方普觉寺: Beijing 5-205 Qingjing Huacheng Pagoda 清净化城塔: Beijing 5-206 Great Wall at Simatai ...
Stations of the Nakasendo in Nagano Prefecture (25 P) Pages in category "Stations of the Nakasendō" The following 78 pages are in this category, out of 78 total.
The title page for the series of ukiyo-e prints.. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen.
During the Edo period, Tsumago was the forty-second of the sixty-nine post towns, which connected Edo (present-day Tokyo) with Kyoto. Prior to becoming part of the Nakasendō, it was the tenth of eleven stations along the Kisoji, a minor trade route running through the Kiso Valley. As such, it was a relatively prosperous and cosmopolitan town ...
The Gokaidō. The Five Routes (五街道, Gokaidō), sometimes translated as "Five Highways", were the five centrally administered routes, or kaidō, that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (now Tokyo) with the outer provinces during the Edo period (1603–1868). [1]
Ochiai-juku is separated from Magome-juku to the east by the Jikkoku Pass, which marked the informal border of the "Kiso Kaido" portion of the Nakasendō highway [2] In the early Edo period, the system of post stations on the Nakasendō was formalized by the Tokugawa shogunate in 1602, and it became a stopping place for traveling merchants (Ōmi shōnin (近江商人)) and it was also on the ...