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Tsumago station town

Tsumago is one of the sixty-nine station towns on Nakasendo which connected Tokyo with Kyoto. Here is prospered during the Edo period and local people started to restore historical sites in 1968 under their rule “Not selling, not leasing and not breaking houses.”

Spots in this area :

• Shape-like-carp stone
• The former Honjin of Tsumago station
• The historical site of Terashita
• Kotoku-ji temple
• Odaki (Male fall) /Medaki (Female fall)
• etc…

Access to this area:

2 hours and 40 min from Tokyo Sta. to Minamikiso Sta. + 7 min by bus