It is my 4th day of Tokaido Wak this “golden” week holidays. I walked from Nissaka through Kakegawa to Fukuroi.
Fukuroi is the 27th shukuba station from Nihonbashi, Edo (Tokyo). It is the center of 53 stations (excluding Tokyo’s Nihonbashi and Kyoto’s Sanjo-Ohashi, the starting and finishing point of Tokaido). It is about 230 kilometers from Tokyo.
Nissaka is a small station in the mountainous area (as is described in Tokaido Walk (18) blog). Nature-rich shrines and temples stand along the street. The fresh green of tall woods at Kotonomama Hashiman Shrine was so beautiful.
I arrived in Kakegawa station. A castle stands along Tokaido. The castle was rebuilt in 1994. A festival was held at a park in front of the castle.
Kakegawa is known as a place to collect tea leaves and make tea products. I found tea factories along the street.
It is a season when people plant new rice in the flooded fields. I saw paddy fields spread along pine-lined Tokaido in Kakegawa and Fukuroi. It is a scene drawn in many Ukiyoe pictures in the Edo era.
“The middle town of Tokaido” (Tokaido Do-man-naka) is seen everywhere in Fukuroi. The phrase is also found in a entrance plate of an elementary school.
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