{"id":40631,"date":"2018-10-22T08:00:41","date_gmt":"2018-10-21T23:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/?p=40631"},"modified":"2021-05-25T18:37:39","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T09:37:39","slug":"nakasendo-trail-from-nakatsugawa-post-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voyapon.com\/nakasendo-trail-from-nakatsugawa-post-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Hiking through the Nakasendo Trail from Nakatsugawa Post Town"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Do you know of the Nakasendo trail? Nakasend\u014d,<\/strong>\u00a0also called Kisokaid\u014d, was one of the\u00a0Edo Five Routes<\/strong> (Gokaid\u014d\u00a0\u4e94\u8857\u9053)\u00a0named Gokaid\u014d during the\u00a0Tokugawa feudal\u00a0period<\/strong>, linking the cities of\u00a0Tokyo<\/strong> and Kyoto<\/strong>. It had an important role in connecting the capital with different provinces. The most important of the routes was T\u014dkaido Road<\/strong> between Edo and Kyoto, tracing the Pacific coast. Tokugawa Ieyasu began construction of the five roads to increase control over the country in 1601<\/strong>, but Tokugawa Ietsuna, the fourth shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate, declared them as the nation’s major roads. Thus, a number of shukuba<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0(<\/em>post towns)<\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>were built along the routes so that travelers could rest, eat, buy food and stay overnight. The routes flourished due to the governmental policy known as sankin-k\u014dtai<\/em><\/strong>, which required daimy\u014ds (<\/em>regional rulers) to travel to Edo on this route every other year, sometimes accompanied by processions of thousands of men. <\/p>\n\n\n\n