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  • Nakasendo Suhara-juku
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Okuwamura Suhara
    The inn was originally built in the Warring States Period and moved to its current location in 1717 after it was damaged by flooding, making it the newest inn on the Nakasendo Highway.

    須原宿は水船の里で、奈良井、馬籠、妻籠宿に比べて見どころはないです。昔の宿場の面影はあります。ほかの宿に比べて国道沿いはお店が多いです。

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  • The Site of Masugata
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Nagiso Machi Azuma Tsumagoshuku
    The road is located in Agatsuma, Minami-Kiso Town, Kiso-gun, and has been selected as a national Important Preservation District for Traditional Buildings. The remains of this road are still preserved today, allowing visitors to catch a glimpse of what remains of those days.

    「枡形」というのは、宿場の防御のための施設です。街道を2度直角に曲げて、外敵が浸入しにくいようにつくられたものです。その跡が、妻籠宿のほぼ中心部にありました。 道は、鋭く直角には曲がっていませんが、大きく湾曲しています。メインの通りの少し離れた横に側道のようにもう一本の道が通っています。宿場を守る、大事な施設だったんですね。

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  • Aoyagi-juku Post Town
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    Nagano Pref. Higashichikumagunchikuhokumura Sakakita
    "This former site of a post town is located in Aoyagi, Chikuhoku Village, Higashichikuma County. It was originally built during as a samurai town during Japan's feudal period by the Aoyagi Clan, which ruled the area at the time. It would later be developed as a post town on the Zenkoji Highway by Ishikawa Yasunaga, the lord of Matsumoto Castle. Even now, visitors can see the traces of the district's days as a post town in its stone walls, the aqueducts that run below them, and the hanging lanterns? that are lit at night. A reenactment of a ""Kitsune no Yomeiri"" (fox's wedding procession) parades through the district's streets once every seven years during the annual festival of Satoboinari Shrine."
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  • Mochizuki-shuku
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    Nagano Saku-shi Mochizuki
    "This area was once the 25th station counting from Edo of the 69 stations of the old Nakasendo Road. ""Mochizuki"" is an old term which refers to the 15th day of the lunar month, a name it gained because the area made many gifts of horses on the harvest moon during the Nara and Heian periods. During the Edo period, the area was a post station town bustling with travelers and possessed an official honjin government inn, waki-honjin sub-inn, taverns, and wholesalers, and even today traces of this time can be found at every turn. The Mochizuki History Folklore Archives was opened on the site of the former honjin and here visitors can learn about the history and culture of the Mochizuki area. The Sanayama House, an inn and wholesaler's at the time, has been designated a National Important Cultural Property."
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  • Nakasendo Yawata-juku
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    Nagano Saku-shi Kuwayama
    The Yawata-juku is the 24th inn counting from Edo (now Tokyo) and was built in the early Edo period (1603-1868) as a rice distribution center in the surrounding granary area, and is also known as the place where the Imperial Princess Wamiya stayed when she married. The Hachiman Shrine near the main camp is a historic shrine from which the name Yawata-juku was derived, and within its precincts is the Kora Shrine, designated as a national important cultural property, which is said to be a shrine related to the people who came to Japan from overseas.
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  • Motaiai no Shuku
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    Nagano Saku-shi Motai
    The street used to connect Mochizuki and Ashida Inns on the Nakasendo Highway, and was used as a rest stop for large groups of passengers who could not make it to Mochizuki or Ashida Inns. The area is also home to a monument to the poet Makisui Wakayama, who stayed here during the Meiji period (1868-1912).
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  • Akiha Kaido
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    Nagano Iida-shi
    An ancient road which existed prior even to the religious worship of Mt. Akiba. Starting in Sagara on the Enshu Sea and passing through the Toyama region before continuing on the Lake Suwa, the road's history dates all the way back to prehistoric times. One of the routes which brought salt to land-locked Nagano, the history-leaden course was also used as a key military road by the Southern Court.
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  • Chikuni Kaido (Salt Road)
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    Nagano Kita-azumi-gun Otarimura
    "The road which started at the sea or the final stops of riverboats from which salt was carried inland were often known as ""salt roads."" The Chikuni Kaido road existed before such salt transportation began to be implemented and extends from Matsumoto to Itoigawa. There are many route plans for the road which break it up into sections to be walking while taking in scenic and historic places along its length."
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  • Oiwake-shuku
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    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Karuizawamachi Oiwake
    The Oiwake-juku Museum and the Hori Tatsuo Literature Memorial Museum are also located in this area.
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  • Nakasendo Otai-juku
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    Nagano Kitasaku-gun Miyotamachi
    The Odai-juku Festival, held annually on August 16, features a procession of people carrying palanquins with dolls given to them by the Princess Wamiya, who stayed at the inn when she married into the Shogun's family at the end of the Edo period. The dolls are carried in a palanquin and paraded in a procession.
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  • Nakasendo Nojiri-juku
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Okuwamura Nojiri
    Located in Nojiri, Okuwa-mura, Kiso-gun, this is the 40th stop on the Nakasendo route and the second longest street after Narai-juku among the eleven Kiso inns, and the "Nanamagari," a street with a characteristic winding shape built to protect it from outside enemies, still remains.
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  • Nakasendo Miyanokoshi-juku
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Kisomachi Hiyoshi
    The 36th of the 69 stops along the Nakasendo Route, it flourished as an inn, and even today, the Miyanokoshi Inn's main camp and other remnants of the inn's past can still be seen. The area is also known as a place associated with Kiso Yoshinaka.
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  • Morokoshi (Corn) Kaido Street
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    Nagano Pref. Kamiminochigunshinanomachi Kashiwabara Jin's warehouse
    During the corn harvesting season from late July through early August, corn is sold along the “Morokoshi (Corn) Kaido Street” at a local produce direct sales store. Due to the extreme temperature difference between the afternoon and evening in Shinanomachi, it is said that the corn’s sugar levels increase. The freshly picked corn is sweet and juicy, and you can grill and eat it on the spot, making it a popular destination.
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  • Hokkoku Kaido Yanagimachi
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    Nagano Pref. Uedashi Chuou 4
    A street located in the center of Ueda City. Situated along the Hokkoku Kaido, an ancient highway, in the Edo period, the street was lined with many inns, merchants, and dry goods stores; in the Meiji period, the sericulture industry also flourished here. Today, the street still retains much of this Edo period atmosphere, but is now occupied by many restaurants, bars, cafes, and shops offering Shinshu soba noodles, local liquors, and tea. Visitors can feel the history of the area as they explore the street.
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  • Nakasendo Kisoji
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    Nagano Shiojiri-shi
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  • Fukushimajuku Townscape
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    Nagano Kiso-gun Kisomachi Fukushima
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  • Nakasendo
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    Nagano Chiisagata-gun Nagawa Machi Nagakubo 2028-2
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Nagano prefecture is an exciting mix of mountains, hot spring monkeys, and preserved Edo history. At the heart of the Japanese Alps, Nagano is one of the country’s most popular destinations, whether in winter for its snow sports and the much-loved Jigokudani Monkey Park or in the warmer months for discovering the undulating hills on foot. For fantastic Edo architecture, head to the Kiso Valley for a 60-kilometer stretch of quaint wooden buildings that marked the Nakasendo route 200 years ago.

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