Japan's Old Highways
The Complete Guide to 200 Post Towns, Passes & Roadside Heritage
- AuthorAki Wakamatsu
- PublisherTakikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC
- CategoryJapan Guides & Culture
- LanguageEnglish
- ISBN1990000144875
- FormatEPUB ebook
About this book
Before the railway, Japan moved at walking pace — and the roads it walked still survive.
Japan's Old Highways covers 200 places in one walker's format: the road and the land that shaped it, the one highlight each place does like no other, how the walk actually works and how you reach it (in honest outline — never a fake promise about walkability or regulation), and the season and the caution that will decide your day. All 53 Tokaido stations from Shinagawa to Otsu. The Nakasendo's mountain halts — Narai, Tsumago, Magome. The Nikko cedar avenue, the Oshu road north, the Koshu road to Kofu. Kumano and Shikoku pilgrim ways, the salt road and the mackerel road. Hakone, Usui, Wada and Torii passes. The surviving checkpoints, honjin and ichirizuka mounds.
It is honest where other books go vague: walkability, closures and traffic regulation change, so instead of printing promises that will rot, every entry carries its checking date (November 2026) and the practical chapters teach you how to confirm the current position locally.
Walk the road itself. It has been waiting four hundred years.
Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.
