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Narai-juku
- Nagano
- After travelers came over the worst of the Torii Pass, what waited for them was a post-station town known as ”Narai of the Thousand...
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Ginzan Onsen
- Yamagata
- This hot spring was made famous by the NHK television drama “Oshin”. Gas street lamps burn at night, and the closely packed w...
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Magome-juku Historic Post Town
- Gifu
- Magome is a once prosperous historic post town located at the southern tip of Kiso Valley. The post town is located on a 600-meter long s...
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Yahata Moat
- Shiga & Lake Biwa
- An artificial waterway in Omihachiman City. The six kiliometer Hachiman Moat was created for connecting the city and Lake Biwa. This wate...
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The Historic Village of Gokayama
- Toyama
- Gassho Village is located at the entrance of Gokayama, in Toyama Prefecture. Since this is a rugged mountainous area, it is also called "...
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Kawagoe
- Saitama
- Only an hour from the center of Tokyo, Kawagoe combines sightseeing with gourmet cuisine. The area gained popularity due to the storehous...
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Wakasa Town
- Fukui
- In Kaminaka station, there is an exhibition hall that tells the history of how marine goods were brought to the capital via Wakasa throug...
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Takayama Old Town
- Hidatakayama
- The area around Kami-Ichino Town, Kami-Nino Town and Kami-Sanno Town in Hida-Takayama developed as a city of merchants and is called as &...
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Katori Sawara
- Chiba
- Sawara once flourished as the transport hub for shipment of goods into Edo via Tone River in the Edo period and known as Edo-masari, whic...
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Mamedacho, Hita
- Oita & Beppu
- This is a castle town that prospered under the Edo shogunate. During the Edo period there were many merchants, and mud-walled daimyo stor...