Agematsu-juku
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Agematsu-juku was the thirty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō, as well as the sixth of eleven stations on the Kisoji. It is located in the present-day town of Agematsu, in the Kiso D
Hiroshige's print of Agematsu-juku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō
Nakasendō
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The Nakasendō, also called the Kisokaidō, 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 to Kyoto. There we
Original ishidatami (stone paving) on the Nakasendō
Along the Nakasendō between Tsumago and Magome.
A modern-day guidepost for the Nakasendō near Takamiya-juku
Odaki waterfall west of Tsumago-juku