Oigawa Kawagoe Square

[Tokaido] Ohi-river, it devides east-Japan and west Japan.日本を東西に分ける大井川

At the beginning of autumn, we crosses the Ohi river bridge. The bridge is more than 1 km. I strongly recommend to cross Ohi-river on foot. (not by car, not by Shinkansen) Abundant water , intense ...

Oichi Kawagyue Relics West End の Kawashiki Park

Original Text

Oigawa Kawagoe Square is an Oigawa Ryokuchi Park on Google Map, but it is a riverbed park that extends further west of the Shimada City Museum at the western end of the Oigawa Kawagoe Ruins and beyond the Oigawa embankment. You can walk from the ruins and museums, but it also comes with a large free parking lot.

A facility where the oigawa River is not transited

Original Text

It reproduces the post town and Kawagoe bansho at that time, and it looks like a little Kyoto Uzumasa movie village. In the old days, when the Oi River was flooded and could not cross, it seemed to be difficult to be stranded for days. The traveler is troubled by the increase in water, but the post town was ironically correlated with the great prosperity.

Relics of が ばれる in the past

Original Text

It was "the Oi River that cannot be crossed", and it was probably carrying people who went from here during the Edo period. At the time of the visit, the Oi River looked calm, but there was a story that the depth of the water was surprisingly deep, so it was a place where the difficulty of traffic at that time was remembered.

In front of the Shimada Museum

Original Text

A riverbed park near the Shimadajuku Kawagoe Ruins (Highway). Until the Edo period, was this a toll road by human feet, the Tokaido?