Kakamigahara
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Kakamigahara is a city located in southern Gifu Prefecture in Japan. As of 1 January 2019, the city had an estimated population of 148,225, and a population density of 1700 persons per km2, in 59,736
Unuma-juku
Skyline of Kakamigahara
The banks of the Shin-Sakai River in spring
Ogase Reservoir
Unuma-juku
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Unuma-juku was the fifty-second of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the city of Kaka
Kakamigahara
…part of the Nōbi Plain, what is now Kakamigahara originally thrived as a post station on the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto, being called "Unuma-juku" at the time. In more recent history, the city developed due to the JASDF Gifu base. In addition, Kakamigahara grew as an industrial city and a commuter…
Hiroshige's print of Unuma-juku, part of the Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series
restored machiya
View from Ninomiya Jinja
Kikugawa sake brewery