Registration Date：1978.05.31
Naraijuku Townscape
Naraijuku entrance signboard
Ice candle
Two hundred jizes
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Narai-juku is the 34th of the 67 inns on the Nakasendo route (Itabashi to Moriyama), excluding Kusatsu and Otsu inns that are shared with Tokaido. In modern times, the town prospered with cypress crafts, lacquering, and lacquered comb strokes, and it has become Hizen Hamashuku: Important Traditional Building Preservation Area, with rows of townhouses that retain their late-Edo period style.
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Narai-juku was the 34th of the 69 stations of the Nakasendo Route, positioned exactly at the center point of the route. The primary business at this post town was usually woodworking such as work using Japanese cypress, lacquered items, and lacquered combs, and it served as a location for temporary lodging and a resting place for feudal lords and other incidences of heavy traffic. Being one of the largest of the 11 post towns in Kiso, it prospered as a place that bustled with the flow of many people throughout the Edo Period (1603-1867), to the extent that is was called “Narai Senken” (“The Thousand Buildings of Narai”). The townscape of Narai, which was developed and shaped by its inns and woodworking industry, has many traditional Machiya houses in the style of the late Edo Period that still remain to this day, as there have been no major fires since the Meiji Era (1868-1912). In 1978, Selected as a National Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings. Narai-juku still retains the atmosphere of the Edo Period, which attracts many visitors from Japan and abroad every year as a place where you can feel the true, unfiltered beauty of Japan.
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