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Kaidou highway (Road side exhibition)、日本橋 街道観光展2018

Reviving old roads, Kaidou 

 This was a temporary road side exhibition of “Kaidou” which is a highway or a walking route constructed in the Edo period. The exhibition was held at an underground street of Nihonbashi area which is a starting point of Five Great Kaidous. Literally, “Kai” is a town and “dou” is a road, so “Kaidou” includes post towns which treat tourists.
 73 posters showed present conditions of Kaidous, so this page is a photo collection of Kaidous.
Road side exhibition "Kaidou"
　五街道の出発点となった日本橋の地下街で、旧街道の写真が展示されていた。７３枚のポスターには、街道、宿場の現在の様子が映し出されている。ポスターの配置はランダムであったが、まず、五街道を東京に近いところから、次に北から街道や往還を紹介する。仕事や遊山で多くの人が行き交ったと思うと楽しい。

Five Great Kaidous 五街道

Five Great Kaidou　Nihonbashi-bridge
Toukaidou, Nakasendou, Nikkoudoucyu, Oushuudoucyu and Kousyuudoucyu

Toukaidou, Yokohama
Toukaidou which links Eod (old name of Tokyo) and Kyoto is the most busy Kaidou even now. There were 53 post towns in Toukaidou, and there were three post towns in Yokohama in the Edo period

Toukaidou Hakonehachiri, Odawara
Odawara is 80km west of Tokyo. It was a castle city.

Toukaidou Hakonehachiri, Hakone
There was a check point, post town with 100 inns and onsen hot spring here

Toukaidou, Mishima
This is the 11th post town from Edo

Toukaidou, Shizuoka
Wonderful view of Mt.Fuji from Satta path

Toukaidou, Fujieda
Pine trees were planted along Kaidous a lot.

Toukaidou, Fukuroi
It was the 27th post town from Edo, almost in the middle of Edo and Kyoto

Himekaidou, Hamamatsu
This is a bypass of Toukaidou

Toukaidou, Fujikawa and Okazaki post town

Nakasendou, Itabashi in Tokyo
Nakasendou links Edo, Nagano and Kyoto. There were 67 post towns.

Nakasendou, Fujioka

Nakasendou, Shiojiri
Narai is a preserved old post town which is famous for Japanese lacquer crafts.

Nakasendou, Nagiso

Tsumago-jyuku in Nagiso

Nakasendou, Nakatsugawa
Magome-jyuku is here.

Nakasendou, Minokamo
The inns for daimyou war lords remain in Oota-jyuku.

Nikkou-kaidou, Tokyo
Most famous haiku poet Basyou Matsuo started off from here.

Nikkou-kaidou, Nikkou
Japanese cedars along the street is designated historical asset. 

Koushuu-kaidou, Tokyo
This Kaidou links Edo and Shimosuwa in Nagano prefecture.

Ousyuu-kaidou, Kouriyama
Ousyuu-kaidou links Tokyo, Sendai and Hakodate in Hokkaidou in a broad of sense. These pine trees were planted in 1604 at first, so people have made effort to preserve trees.

Ousyuu-kaidou, Fukushima

Ousyuu-kaidou, Kouri

Kaidous in Touhoku area (Northern Japan) 東北の街道

Usyuu-kaidou, Kaminoyama
Usyuukaidou links Koori in Fukushima, Yamagata, Akita and Aomori.

Usyuu-kaidou, Akita
This is a castle city too.


Kaidous in Kantou area (Eastern Japan) 関東の街道

Mikuni-kaidou, Minakami
Sugawa post town in Minakami, Gunma. Mikuni-kaidou links Takasaki to Nigata via high mountainous area. 

Kamakura-kaidou shimonomichi, Tokyo
This high way links Kamakura which was political capital around the 13th century and Chiba via Tokyo. 

Kaidous in Cyubu area (Central Japan) 中部の街道

Shimoda-kaidou, Shimoda
This highway links Mishima in Tokaidou and Simoda in Izu peninsula.

Nakamichi-oukan, Fujinomiya
This route links Shizuoka in Toukaidou and Koufu in Kousyuu-kaidou via Mt.Fuji. Fujinomiya has flourished as the shrine city of Sengen Great Shrine. 

Yoshida-guti climbing route to Mt.Fuji

Hokkoku-kaidou, Niigata
This kaidou links Jouetsu in Niigata to Karuizawa in Nagano.

Hokuriku-kaidou, Uotsu
This kaidou links Shiga to Niigata which is northern seaside of Japanese Archipelago.  

Hokuriku-kaidou, Toyama

Hokuriku-kaidou, Imizu

Hokuriku-kaidou, Kanazawa
This kaidou is also called Hokkoku-kaidou. Kanazawa was the castle city of the biggest daimyo Maeda clan.

Okunoto-kaidou (From Suzu to Wajima), Wajima

Tonami/Demachi road in Toyama

Inami-road in Takaoka, Toyama

Usugamine route, Himi in Toyama

Mino-kaidou, Oono in Fukui
This links Hokuriku to Tokaidou.
Echizen-Ohno Castle, a.k.s Castle in the sky
photo by K.Kawabata

Gokayama-kaidou, Minamitonami in Toyama
It threads mountainous area near Shirakawa-gou.

Shirkawa-kaidou, Shirakawa in Gifu
Shirakawa is the most famous village in Japan due to particular houses.

Shirakwa/Gujyou-kaidou, Gujyou in Gifu
This town is famous for its water and summer dancing festival.

Tousan-dou/Kuraiyama-kandou, Gero in Gifu
This kaidou was designated a government highway in 927. Craftsmen went to Kyoto via this road. 

Hida Takayama in Gifu
One of the most popular tourist spots for foreigners in Japn

Ecchuu-higashi-kaidou in Hida Furukawa, Gifu

Sushi-kaidou in Gifu
Ayu fish sushi was brought to the Shougun via this kaidou

Ise-Kaidou
The road to Ise Shrine

Kaidous in Kansai area (near Kyoto and Osaka) 関西の街道


Tango-kaidou in north of Kyoto, Takahama in Fukui

Tango-kaidou, Mihama in Fukui

Kinome-kodou, 
This road is along the Japan Sea.

Saba-fish-kiodu, Obama in Fukui
This kaidou links the Japan Sea area to Kyoto which is a former capital. Fishes were carried via this kaidou. "Saba" is the name mackerel fish.

Saba-fish-kaidou, Wakasa in Fukui
Kumakawa post town

Syuuzan kaidou, Aoi in Fukui
This kaidou also links the Japan Sea area to Kyoto. The noble class lived here in order to evacuate from war in Kyoto.

Atago kaidou, Kyoto
This kaidou links Kyoto and Atago Shrine which is 10km west of central Kyoto 

Yamanobe road in Nara
This road is in the ancient capital Nara.

Kaidous in Chugoku & Shikoku area (Western Japan)

Sanyou-dou, Himeji in Hyougo
This kaidou is the main route which links Kyoto and Fukuoka 

Kamogata ourai, Okayama
This route links Okayama and Fukuyama in Hiroshima

Inaba kaidou, Tottori
This kaidou links Tottori in the Japan Sea side and Himeji in the Inland Sea side.

Inaba kaidou, Chizu in Tottori

Inaba kaidou, Sayou in Hyougo

Chizu route in Inaba kaidou, Nishiawakura, Okayama

Wakasa kaidou in Tottori

Matsue Mihonoseki route in Shimane

Iwami silver mine kaidou and Yunotsu, Oota in Shimane

Hagi route, Houhu in Yamaguchi
This is very famous route which many young revolutionaries walked in the end of the Edo period.

Hagi route, Yamaguchi

Hagi route, Hagi in Yamaguchi

Muya kaidou, Mima in Tokushima

Muya kaidou, Miyoshi in Tokushima

Tosa kaidou, Matsuyama in Ehime
Very famous place as a good and long history hot spring

Yusuhara kaidou, Yusuhara in Kouchi

Kaidous in Kyusyuu (Southern Japan)

Nakatsu kaidou, Buzen in Fukuoka

Nagasaki kaidou, Oomura in Nagasaki

People have enjoyed travel for a long time. Some are for business and some are for sightseeing. Kaidous and syukuba post towns retain memories of people's travels.
昔から人々は、仕事で、遊びで、旅をした。街道と宿場にその面影が残っている。

Reference:
庶民と旅の歴史 PartⅠ　The history of travel of Japanese ordinary people (published in 1971) 1/2 　
　庶民と旅の歴史 PartⅡ　The history of travel of Japanese ordinary people (published in 1971) 2/2


Visited on the 9th of December, 2018
Previous post (Red right district in Edo) : 吉原はスゴイ　The Great Yoshiwara (published in 2018)

Next post (The first post town in Toukaidou) : Shinagawa Historical Museum 品川区立品川歴史館


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