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00:00 TOKAIDO Road, Shizuoka https://exploreshizuoka.jp/en/see-and-do/tokaido-highway/
01:00 Famous Tourist Spot, near Shizuoka city
01:22 5 days TOKAIDO TOUR
02:19 DAY1 Mishima https://mishima-tourism.jp/?hl=ja
02:29 Yamanaka Castle Ruins https://mishima-tourism.jp/plan/hotspot/hotspot03/?hl=en
03:27 Old Tokaido Road https://www.city.mishima.shizuoka.jp/mishima_info/amenity/rekishi/tokaido/toukaido.htm
04:04 Genbe River https://mishima-tourism.jp/seseragi/?hl=en
04:57 DAY2 Kambara
05:11 posting station https://shizuoka.tokaido-guide.jp/shukuba/1?locale=en
05:42 Yamashichi Restaurant http://yamashiti.com/en/english-top/
07:15 DAY3 Shizuoka https://www.visit-shizuoka.com/en/
07:23 Satta Pass https://www.visit-shizuoka.com/en/spots/detail.php?kanko=314
08:08 Chojiya Restaurant https://chojiya.info/english
11:47 DAY5 Hamamatsu https://www.hamamatsu-japan.com/en/
11:54 Hamamatsu Castle https://www.entetsuassist-dms.com/hamamatsu-jyo/en/
12:58 Summary of 5 days
Shizuoka prefecture the majestic home of mount fuji lies midway between tokyo and kyoto the 500 year old tokaido road which links japan’s old and new capital cities runs through shizuoka in the days of samurai and ninja most hokkaido travelers were on foot you can still enjoy this historical journey through shizuoka today
19th century wood block print artist hiroshige painted scenes of each of the post towns along old tokaido meet tokaido locals whose families have been welcoming travelers for centuries try your hand at making wood block prints Be spiritual with nature the tokaido shinkansen named after the old foot highway makes six convenient stops on its journey through shizuoka for you to hop off and explore Hi folks i’m tony welcome to our five-day tokaido tour virtual familiarization or fam we kick off today’s program here at yamanaka castle ruins and behind me of course the stunning iconic mount fuji which we can enjoy from here on clear weather days such as today from here i’ll take you
Down the bottom of the hill to gimbaegawa world water heritage system area in the city of mishima from there we’ll journey further west to kambara post town we will meet the lovely mrs yamazaki one of our tokaido personalities from there will carry on west to cholgia a tea house that’s been
Serving tea to thirsty tokaido walkers for centuries and we’ll meet the 14th generation manager and finally we’ll move across to hamamatsu on the very western edge of shizuoka prefecture to conclude today’s programme The battle here at yamanaka castle in 1590 was the penultimate battle of japan’s warring states period the lord of osaka had united all of japan under his rule except for this little corner here in the east of japan which refused to submit to his rule now yamanaka castle literally means on
The mountain castle we’re up high so there’s no water for moats or defenses so to compensate for that they created this clever labyrinth of dry moat defenses we call them waffle makers in modern times and you can see that this unusual configuration below us makes it very difficult for the
Attacking army to scale the walls here and conquer the castle but still it only slowed them down until lunch time and the rest as they say is history so here we are on the old tokaido foot highway which for 500 years has linked japan’s modern capital of tokyo in the east
With the ancient capitals of kyoto and osaka in the west now preserved as a japan heritage area for us to enjoy so let’s do some hiking So here we are at gen baigawa world water system heritage area in the city of mishima now every year in the summer when the snow on the summit of mount fuji melts it percolates down through the layers of lava and then bubbles up down here close
To sea level to form this pure pristine stream but it hasn’t always been pure and pristine this stream became very polluted fortunately in the 1990s the locals in mishima decided to clean up the stream and they restored it to its original pristine state earning themselves world heritage status Um My We’re here at sata pass on tokaido and right from the spot that i’m standing on 200 years ago famous japanese painter hiroshige painted this vista behind me of beautiful mount fuji with surigabe in front of it here it’s interesting if we contrast that painting from 200 years ago with the current
Modern scene we can see that tokaido is still alive and well as japan’s main transport access route between the new and old capitals with the freeway and the modern train line down here below us in full action Foreign oh Foreign Foreign m Foreign foreign so here we are at hamamat’s castle on the western border of shizuoka prefecture so our hero of the battle of yamanaka castle japan’s most famous shogun was lord here for 17 years let’s go inside so this is my favorite exhibit inside hanamatsu castle this is the armor of the son
Of japan’s most famous shogun who was born right here in hamamat’s castle he went on to become shogun himself when his father passed away So that concludes our brief introduction of our five-day tokaido tour this program is actually run by four local travel agencies but you can purchase it as a single unit for simplicity on behalf of myself and the three other participating local travel agencies i’d like to say that we
Are ready and waiting to welcome you and your clients to the tokaido tour you
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Great video, Tony. Looking forward to when Japan opens to tourists again!