Visit Duration
90 minutes
Old Tōkaidō Cedar Avenue
箱根旧街道Hakone, Kanagawa
Historic area
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Old Tōkaidō Cedar Avenue is a national historic site made up of preserved stretches of the old Tōkaidō highway in and around Hakone. The protected sections lie in Hakone in Kanagawa and in Mishima and Kannami in Shizuoka. The designation covers the stone pavement and tree-lined road of the Hakone Hachiri, the “eight ri of Hakone”, along with milestone mounds called ichirizuka.
The first part to be protected was Nishikida Ichirizuka in Mishima, a milestone mound built under a 1604 order at the 28 ri point from Nihonbashi and named a historic site in 1922. The stone-paved and tree-lined road in Hakone followed in 1960. A 2004 extension added the pavement and two mounds at Hatajuku, the pavement and a mound near Settai Chaya in Kannami, and several more stretches in Mishima.
Goshuin within a short walk
Temples, shrines and castles near Old Tōkaidō Cedar Avenue that give goshuin, closest first.
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