Nagawa, Nagano
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Nagawa is a town located in Nagano Prefecture, Japan. As of 1 April 2019, the town had an estimated population of 6,088 in 2,650 households, and a population density of 32.6 persons per km2. The total
Nagawa Town Hall
Yonoike Pond in Nagawa
Wada-shuku
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Wada-shuku was the twenty-eighth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto during the Edo period. It was located in the present-day town of Nagawa, in the Chiisagat
Nagawa, Nagano
…part of the holdings of Ueda Domain during the Edo period, and had two stations on the Nakasendō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto: Nagakubo-shuku and Wada-shuku. The modern town of Nagakubo-shinmachi was established on April 1, 1889, by the establishment of the municipalities system and was renamed Nagato on…
Hiroshige's print of Wada-shuku, part of the series The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō