U. Hiroshige - Vertical Tokaido

The Old Tokaidō Road was the main walking trail between Edo (the name for Tokyo during the Edo era, 1603-1868) and Kyoto, the former capital of Japan. It was an important - and probably quite busy - road for samurai, officials and merchants during that time. Along the road, there were posts, inns, temples and shrines at the service of weary travelers. Nowadays, some of the religious sites remain, but most of the posts and inns are gone. There are some castle ruins near Hakone and an old inn in Okitsu left that you can check out.
Today most of the old trail has been swallowed up by National Route No. 1, also known as the Tokaidō Highway - a motorway with no pedestrian walkway. Nowaldays many bits of the road are quite urban.
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Design: Jürgen Wagner