Old Tokyo Adventure – Garameki Kiridoshi Pass

Old Tokyo Adventure – Garameki Kiridoshi Pass

So today I’m headed towards the Kamecki Kyodoshi Pass. You can see I’ve been through an awful lot of rush and bramble to get here. So we’ll continue. We’re very close now. This is a Kamakura era pass when Kamakuro was the capital. People traveling from Ado, Tokyo through Yokohama, Ora onto Zushi and then Odawara going on to Kyoto would have taken this route here. It’s kind of a clearing. Makes me wonder if there was a tea house way back when. Another little side passage. They were working on this back in March. You wouldn’t know that this had been cleared 4 months ago. So, here is the approach. It’s curious to think this is 8 or 900 years old. As a side note, this is a way you can get access from uh National Highway 16 if you want to get up here quickly. And I’d probably recommend it though there are a lot of AIA meaning abandoned houses with wild cats, including one that seems kind of rabid. So, you know, if the cat goes away, you might be all right. But that’s the faster way than all the brambles I just went through. You can see this was important enough. They reinforced it with that cement. Who knows when? But look at these old walls. Cut by hand. 18 ft high perhaps. This is wide. So they could have had entouragees. You know, three of a part. I mean three of breast. Maybe a wagon. Who knows? You know the samurai, the shogun. Important people came through here. All kinds of people came through here. That’s the sign Opma and then Towerra. This is the more modern way that it goes to get down to Opma. You can go to this dual tunnel area and in German they call it a Vanderwick Vundervic, but there’s a trail that you can then go through the neighborhoods to get to Opma. Originally, it would have gone down here, but it’s long since not been maintained. I think the only reason this part is maintained is that you see these paved cement areas. The uh power lines, high tension, very high power lines go through here. And so I’m sure that these are maintenance. But I just think the history of this area that goes off in that direction. This is the perspective of the pass looking south towards Tower. As we go off to the right here, if you’ll go over the tunnels for National Route 16, as well as the KQ mainline, which was built in 19 around 1930, actually, there’s an AA down there. I tried going up this way, but the houses were way too creepy. It was getting dark, and I thought, no, I don’t want to take back some strange energy. This rock is so crumbly. A gypsum or a shist or something. So, we’re over the tunnels right now. The cement makes it really a pleasant walk, I have to say. You can see the dense woods. I hear a KQ line train. I can see the outlines of the AA. So, this was a little clearer in March, so it’s still pretty overgrown. But that’s looking down Opa. The other day I could see Yokohama, the landmark tower, but not today. It’s pretty hazy and hot. That’s one of the high tension power towers. The only reason this trail exists is to access those. So, that goes off into another neighborhood and this heads back. So, let me know questions, subscribe and like. Let me know what other content you might like. Is this stuff interesting? I love exploring, you know, the combination of the neighborhoods, these old roads. There’s so much history to be seen in Tokyo and the Tokyo area, Japan for that matter. So, I’m going to get some in Numazoo and then I’ll be spending next week in Tokyo. So, I’ll be doing more there as well. We’ll end on the last view of the pass itself. Kamaki Kyodoshi 900 years old Kamakura era. The original trail through here. You can see how not as big. And then this was quite a substantial undertaking back then with no power tools, right? All the best.

Today, I explore a 900 year old Kamakura era pass. Travelers between Edo Tokyo, Uraga, Zushi, Kamakura, and beyond traveled this ancient path.