Overview
A post town paved up a slope, its houses stepped along the hill; the novelist Toson Shimazaki was born here.
About this place
Magome-juku (馬籠宿, Magome-juku) was the forty-third of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. It is located in former Mino Province in what is now part of the city of Nakatsugawa, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was also the last of eleven stations along the Kisoji, which was the precursor to a part of the Nakasendō, running through the Kiso Valley.
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Founded / opened：Edo period Highlights / collection：Stone-paved slope, Post town on the Nakasendo Genre：Architecture
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