Ieyasu Tokugawa decides the maintenance of five highways when the shogunate is opened and Tokaido and Nakasendo are decided in the trunk road between Edo of Kyoto in advancing 1602.
Tokaido is a road along the sea, and Nakasendo is a road in the mountain.
The Fukushima barrier here is one of the four great barriers in the whole country.
The shogunate especially attached importance to Hakone (Kanagawa) and Arai (Shizuoka) in Tokaido, and Usui (Gunma) and Fukushima in Nakasendo among barriers that had been set up in five highways for the Edo defense.
Fukushima was exactly a heartland of the Kiso valley it almost lay to the center, and with the magistrate's office.
The place with the barrier is the best ground for the interception of the highway in the plain of about 40 meters in width placed between the cliff by Kisogawa river and the mountain in case of emergency exactly.
The management of "Irideppo" (Arms must head for Edo) and "Deonna" (The wife of the feudal lord who it was Edo and was the hostage must go out of Edo) was severe.
Moreover, it severely checked it so that wood material should not flow out the fine quality of Kiso.
And, Heishi(Taira family samurai) came finally to control politics in the court.
Then, the court issued the instruction of the Heishi overthrow to Genji(Minamoto family samurai) who was the rival of Heishi.
It was specified for the historic site in the country in 1979 though it went to ruin after it became abolition in 1869 years.
It is restored and it is maintained as a historic park now.
The container is a plastic case with 250ml.
The surrounding of the cache point can enter free of charge though the next material pavilion is charged.
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徳川家康は幕府を開くと五街道の整備を進め慶長７年(１６０２)に東海道と中山道を京都・江戸間の幹線道路に定めます。
東海道は海沿いの道、中山道は山の中の道です。
ここ福島関所は天下の四大関所の一つです。
幕府は江戸防衛のために、五街道に設置した関所のうち、東海道の箱根（神奈川）と新居（静岡）、中山道の碓氷（群馬）そして福島関所を特に重要視しました。
福島は木曽谷のほぼ中央に当たり、代官所があるまさに中心地でした。
関所がある場所は、木曽川の断崖と山にはさまれた幅４０メートルほどの平地でまさに有事の際には、街道を遮断するのに最適の地です。
「入り鉄砲」と「出女」の取締りが厳しかったようです。
また、木曽の上質な木材が流出しないよう、厳しくチェックしていました。
明治２年に廃止になってから荒廃していたが、昭和５４年に国の史跡に指定されました。
現在は史跡公園として復元・整備されています。
コンテナは250mlのプラスチックケースです。
隣の資料館は有料ですが、キャッシュポイント周辺は無料で入ることができます。
Let's enjoy caching!