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The Kisoji Post-towns

The Nakasendo highway from Kyoto to Edo (present day Tokyo) passed through 67 post-towns. Of these post-towns, eleven are in the Kiso River Valley where the highway was called the Kisoji (or Kisoro). This area of the Nakasendo highway could be thought of as the heart of the highway today because the road and the post-towns are preserved more nearly as they existed in the Edo Period than any other section of the Nakasendo (or any other of the Five Roads of the feudal period). The Nakasendo highway in the vicinity of these towns is described in the following pages:

  • The Journey to Nakatsugawa
  • The Journey to Shinchaya
  • The Journey to Magome
  • The Journey to Odaki-Medaki
  • The Journey to O-tsumago
  • The Journey to Tsumago
  • The Journey to Midono
  • The Journey to Agematsu
  • The Journey to Kiso-Fukushima
  • The Journey to Mienokoshi
  • The Journey to Torii-toge
  • The Journey to Narai
  • The Journey to Niegawa

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  • Sukiyaki

    A Japanese food dish invented to deal with a new food in the Meiji period (1868-1912): beef. It consists of beef, mushrooms, vegetables, and noodles quickly cooked in a broth with some soy sauce and a touch of sugar in a shallow cast-iron pot. The morsels are usually dipped in raw egg before consumption.

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