 Most viewed - Nakasendo Kano-juku and Kano Castle 加納宿・加納城跡 |
Kano Castle as it looked originally in Gifu. 加納城75 views
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Kano Castle stone walls. Near JR Gifu Station's south exit.69 views
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Marker for Kano-juku's Honjin. 本陣49 views
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Another road marker. "Go left for Kyoto"46 views
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Nakasendo Road in Kano-juku.44 views
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Kosatsu bulletin board was at one end of this bridge over a small river.44 views
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Marker for a gate at Kano Castle.44 views
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Monument for the poem Princess Kazunomiya composed while in Kano-juku. This is her handwriting. Monument was built in 2002.43 views
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Not much is left except for a few markers indicating the location of the Waki Honjin, Honjin, and other features. 42 viewsTenmangu Shrine and Kano Castle's stone walls are the major sights.
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Entrance to Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 加納天満宮42 views
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Nakasendo Road in Kano-juku.40 views
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Marker for Kano-juku's Waki Honjin. 脇本陣40 views
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 40 views
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Former Kano Town Hall. 旧加納町役場40 views
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Marker for Kano-juku's Waki Honjin. 脇本陣39 views
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About Princess Kazunomiya's poem and monument.39 views
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Way to Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 39 views
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine's Haiden worship hall. 拝殿39 views
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine worships Tenjin, aka Sugawara no Michizane, the god of scholarly learning. This is the Honden hall. 本殿 39 views
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Marker for a gate at Kano Castle.39 views
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About Kano Castle's Honmaru stone foundation built in the early 1600s.39 views
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Kano Castle stone walls.39 views
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About the Kosatsu bulletin board in Kano-juku. It posted local laws and regulations and other official notices from the local ruler. 高札38 views
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Kano Castle as it looked originally on a map. All the moats were later filled in. 加納城38 views
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Marker for Kano-juku's Honjin where Princess Kazunomiya once stayed on Oct. 26, 1861 on her way from Kyoto to Edo to marry Shogun Tokugawa Iemochi. 本陣37 views
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About Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 加納天満宮37 views
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Monument marking the birthplace of Gifu's Boy Scouts.37 views
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Kano used to have nine festival floats, but all except one was destroyed by World War II bombing of Gifu in 1945. The shrine buildings were also destroyed.37 views
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About the Nakasendo road marker at Kano-juku. It was at the intersection of the Nakasendo and Gifu Roads.37 views
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Road directions and map in English in Kano, Gifu.37 views
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Another entrance to Kano Castle. Thanks to my friend Satomi for driving me around Kano.37 views
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Signs36 views
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Kano-juku road marker.36 views
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Kano Castle has a large grassy area surrounded by stone walls. No buildings. 加納城36 views
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Kano Castle stone foundation.36 views
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Map of Kano-juku in English. Gifu Station is on the upper right, and Kano Castle is on the left.35 viewsIt had the Honjin, Waki-Honjin, and 35 lodges. The population was 2,728.
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Wash basin.35 views
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Nakasendo road marker at Kano-juku. "Go left for Nakasendo." Originally built in 1750. 加納宿 中山道道標35 views
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Kano Castle parking lot.35 views
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About Kano Castle. As ordered by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, it was built soon after the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. Parts from Gifu Castle were used to build Kano Castle.35 views
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine office.34 views
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Spot where the Kosatsu bulletin board was in Kano-juku. It was originally on a stone foundation. This spot used to have many people passing by as it was near the castle's front gate. 加納宿 高札34 views
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Koma-inu lion dog.33 views
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In 1601 when Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu dismantled Gifu Castle, he ordered Kano Castle to be constructed here south of Gifu Castle.33 viewsKano-juku then thrived as a castle town and became Nakasendo's fifth largest shukuba lodging town.
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine's ema prayer tablet.32 views
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Kano-juku was the 53rd station or lodging/post town of the Nakasendo Road. Hiroshige's print of Kanō-juku was part of The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Kaidō series. Kano Castle can be seen. 28 viewsShort walk south of JR Gifu Station.
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