I like walking between train stations. However, I have not been able to walk long distances since I had a knee injury in April 2015.
This article just contains photos taken during my short walk from Mino-Akasaka Station 美濃赤坂駅 to Higashi-Akasaka Station 東赤坂駅 on 22nd of October 2021.
Mino-Akasaka Station is a terminal of Tōkaidō Main Line Mino-Akasaka Branch Line (東海道本線美濃赤坂支線) of JR Tōkai located in Ōgaki City, Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県大垣市). Higashi-Akasaka Station is a train station of Yōrō Railway (養老鉄道) located in Gōdo Town, Anpachi District, Gifu Prefecture (岐阜県安八郡神戸町).
Here're from Google Map:
MIno-Akasaka is a terminal of a short branch line.Walking route from Mino-Akasaka to Higashi-Akasaka
Here're photos I took while walking:
Arrived at Mino-Akasaka by this local train (713G) from Ōgaki at 10:45.Left Mino-Akasaka Station at 11:50.Spacious station yard of Mino-AkasakaNakasendō, one of the centrally administered five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (modern-day Tōkyō) to Kyōto.Nakasendō Honjin Site(中山道赤坂宿本陣跡) Honjin (本陣) is the Japanese word for an inn for government officials, generally located in post stations (shukuba) during the later part of the Edo period.Akasaka-juku (赤坂宿) was the fifty-sixth of the sixty-nine (69) stations of the Nakasendō connecting Edo with Kyōto in Edo period Japan.
[NOTE] There was another Akasaka-juku (赤坂宿) in Tōkaidō (東海道), which was the thirty-sixth of the fifty-three (53) stations of the Tōkaidō. It is located in modern-day Akasaka Town, Toyokawa City, Aichi Prefecture (愛知県豊川市赤坂町).
Seinō Railway Ichihashi Line Akasaka Honmachi Station Site (西濃鉄道市橋線赤坂本町駅跡), discontinued in April 1945Sengen Shrine (浅間神社), which enshrines Konohanasakuya-hime 木花之佐久夜毘売Akasaka Port Site (赤坂港跡) Bus stop. Depicted as a silhouette is Matsuo Bashō. Ōgaki was the end point of "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" (奥の細道) in 1689.
It's hard to believe but the river was used as a means of transportation around the early 1900s, and this port seems to have prospered.
Akasaka Port Site (赤坂港跡)A milestone (一里塚跡) - The Nakasendō route runs from Edo's Nihonbashi Bridge to Kyōto's Sanjō Ōhashi Bridge, a distance of about 635 ri (里), or 69 stops. For the convenience of travelers, an Ichirizuka (一里塚) was established every 1 ri (about 4 km).Hakusan Shrine (白山神社)Arrived at Higashi-Akasaka Station (東赤坂駅) at 11:30.
