Nikko Kaido

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The Sugi Avenue between Imaichi and Nikkō

The Nikkō Kaidō ( Japanese 日光 街道 ) is one of the five highways . It first uses the Ōshū Kaidō and branches off from this in Utsunomiya and then ended on a specially constructed road in Nikkō .

history

The road was completed around 1617 so that the magnificent Tokugawa Ieyasu tomb in Nikkō could be easily visited. The grave complex for Tokugawa Iemitsu was added later .

Prince Matsudaira Masatsuna ( 松 平 正 綱 ; 1576–1648), who was the first three Tokugawa shoguns a. a. as a commissioner ( 奉行 , Bugyō ) had served for the construction of the Tōshō-gū , had 50,000 Sugi planted to line the last kilometers of the road to Nikkō. Today there are still 13,600 trees with a diameter of at least 30 cm. The avenue is the longest avenue of its kind in the world and is the only object in Japan that has been awarded twice, namely as a special national history trail ( 国 の 特別 史跡 , Kuni no tokubetsu shiseki ) and as a special natural monument ( 特別 天然 記念 物 , Tokubetsu tennen kinenbutsu ) .

Stations

Important Edo-era highways around / to Nikkō: In the east in Utsunomiya the Nikkō Kaidō (in red) and the ntenshū Kaidō separated to the north; in the south the Nakasendō led from the capital to the west, one of the side routes was the Nikkō Reiheishi Kaidō , which branched off from the west in Kuragano from the Nakasendō and at the end of the Nibu-dōri ( 壬 生 通 り ) followed, which in Oyama from the Oshū / Nikkō Kaidō branched off. An alternative route from the south was the Nikkō Wakiōkan ("Nikkō secondary route") from Hachiōji via Tatebayashi on the Nakasendō and then from Tomita on the same route as the Reiheishi Kaidō to Nikkō.
No. Kanji place circle province today's parish today's prefecture
0- 日本 橋 Nihonbashi (Edo) Toshima Musashi Chūō ( Tokyo ) Tokyo
01 千 住宿 Senju-shuku Adachi Adachi (Tokyo)
02 草 加 宿 Sōka-shuku Sōka Saitama
03 越 ヶ 谷 宿 Koshigaya-shuku Saitama Koshigaya
04th 粕 壁 宿 Kasukabe-shuku Kasukabe
05 杉 戸 宿 Sugito-shuku Katsushika Sugito
06th 幸 手 宿 Satte-shuku Full
07th 栗 橋 宿 Kurahashi-shuku Kuki
08th 中 田 宿 Nakada-shuku Shimousa Koga Ibaraki
09 古河 宿 Koga-shuku
10 野 木 宿 Nogi-shuku Tsuga Shimotsuke Nogi Tochigi
11 間 々 田 宿 Mamada-shuku Oyama
12 小山 宿 Oyama-shuku
13 新 田 宿 Shinden-shuku
14th 小 金井 宿 Koganei-shuku Shimotsuke
15th 石橋 宿 Ishibashi-shuku
16 雀 宮 宿 Susumenomiya-shuku Kawachi Utsunomiya
17th 宇 都 宮 宿 Utsunomiya-shuku
18th 徳 次郎 宿 Tokujirō-shuku
19th 大 沢 宿 Ōzawa-shuku Tsuga Nikko
20th 今 市 宿 Imaichi-shuku
21st 鉢 石 宿 Hatsuishi-shuku
0- 日光 東 照 宮 Nikkō Tōshō-gū

literature

  • Tochigi-ken no rekishi sampo henshū iinkai (Ed.): Nikko Suginamiki . In: Tochigi-ken no rekishi sampo. Yamakawa Shuppan, 2008. ISBN 978-4-634-24609-6 . P. 115.

Web links

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