Nakasendo Kano-juku and Kano Castle 加納宿・加納城跡
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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. Short walk south of JR Gifu Station.
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Not much is left except for a few markers indicating the location of the Waki Honjin, Honjin, and other features. Tenmangu Shrine and Kano Castle's stone walls are the major sights.
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Map of Kano-juku in English. Gifu Station is on the upper right, and Kano Castle is on the left.It had the Honjin, Waki-Honjin, and 35 lodges. The population was 2,728.
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Signs
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Nakasendo Road in Kano-juku.
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Nakasendo Road in Kano-juku.
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Marker for Kano-juku's Waki Honjin. 脇本陣
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Marker for Kano-juku's Waki Honjin. 脇本陣
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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
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Monument for the poem Princess Kazunomiya composed while in Kano-juku. This is her handwriting. Monument was built in 2002.
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Marker for Kano-juku's Honjin. 本陣
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About Princess Kazunomiya's poem and monument.
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Way to Kano Tenmangu Shrine.
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Entrance to Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 加納天満宮
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About Kano Tenmangu Shrine. 加納天満宮
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Wash basin.
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Koma-inu lion dog.
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine's Haiden worship hall. 拝殿
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine.
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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
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine office.
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Kano Tenmangu Shrine's ema prayer tablet.
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Monument marking the birthplace of Gifu's Boy Scouts.
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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.
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Kano-juku road marker.
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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
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About the Nakasendo road marker at Kano-juku. It was at the intersection of the Nakasendo and Gifu Roads.
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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
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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
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Kosatsu bulletin board was at one end of this bridge over a small river.
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Road directions and map in English in Kano, Gifu.
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Another road marker. "Go left for Kyoto"
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Former Kano Town Hall. 旧加納町役場
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Marker for a gate at Kano Castle.
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Marker for a gate at Kano Castle.
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Kano Castle parking lot.
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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.
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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.Kano-juku then thrived as a castle town and became Nakasendo's fifth largest shukuba lodging town.
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Kano Castle as it looked originally in Gifu. 加納城
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Kano Castle as it looked originally on a map. All the moats were later filled in. 加納城
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Kano Castle has a large grassy area surrounded by stone walls. No buildings. 加納城
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Kano Castle stone foundation.
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About Kano Castle's Honmaru stone foundation built in the early 1600s.
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Kano Castle stone walls. Near JR Gifu Station's south exit.
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Kano Castle stone walls.
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Another entrance to Kano Castle. Thanks to my friend Satomi for driving me around Kano.
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