Tokaido Walk (21) Iwata-Hamamatsu: April 27, 2013

The Golden Week holiday season started. I resumed my Tokaido Walk after about a year’s interval.　The walk is possible only in long holidays as the walk’s “starting point” is far away from Tokyo.

I started my walk from Iwata city (where Mitsuke shukuba station locates). The sky was blue.


I crossed Tenryu River and moved into Hamamatsu City. The river used to be called Violent Tenryu as it often caused flood disasters.

Water control engineer Meizen Kibara’s museum was open near the river. He lived late Edo through Meiji era.

Hamamatsu is the 29th shukuba station from Edo.　It had 6 honjin (main inn where Government officials could stay). The number was the largest (along with Hakone shukuba). Now, no such historical buildings remain.



Iwata and Hamamatsu are hometowns of Yamaha and Suzuki motors. They also have factories of various fields. Factories as well as auto shops stood along Tokaido in the area.