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Oiwake-juku (Date of photograph unknown)
Post town inns at Oiwake Juku in Nagano Prefecture around 1880 (Meiji 13). The town was the twentieth of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendo, one of the two routes that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.. Until the Shinetsu railroad line connected Naoetsu and Karuizawa in 1893 (Meiji 26), the town functioned as the junction between the Nakasendo and Kitaguni highways. Interestingly, in addition to a rickshaw, two stagecoaches are visible. This rare form of transportation could be offered from 1870 (Meiji 3) to 1890 (Meiji 23), because the road was paved.
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26-04-2012
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