From Nobidome millrace #2 Traditional Cache
From Nobidome millrace #2
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Cache point is near Shiki Sta of TobuTojyo-line.
Cache is hidden near "Shingashi river repair stone monument".
Cache size is micro,so please bring a writting pen.
This region was a low ground that had been placed between the Shingashi river and Arakawa river.
It suffered from a flood damage and constant agricultural rainwater shortage from of old.
The waterway of a wooden gutter from the surface of the water of about 4m height and 260m length was built to use water of "Nobidome millrace" that had been thrown away to the Shingashi river as an agricultural water.
This waterway was named "Iroha-Toi".
It was repaired from wooden at the Meiji era period, and it became shape that passed under the river.
You may see the remnants of an old waterway of the Meiji era period near the stone monument.
Moreover, the handrail of the nearby Iroha bridge makes this "Iroha-Toi" in Edo era a motif.
----- Japanese -----
東武東上線志木駅が最寄り駅となります。
新河岸川改修碑付近にキャッシュはあります。
マイクロですので、筆記用具持参でお願いいたします。
この地域は新河岸川と荒川に挟まれた低地であり古くから水害と、恒常的な農業用水不足に悩まされていました。
新河岸川に捨てられていた野火止用水を農業用水として利用するため、舟の運航を妨げないよう水面からの高さ約４ｍ、長さ２６０ｍの木製の樋の水路が造られました。
これが「いろは樋」で、明治期には木製から改修され、地中を通る形になりました。
明治期の「いろは樋」の遺構がここに残っています。
また近くのいろは橋の欄干は、江戸時代の「いろは樋」をモチーフにしています。
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