Old Kamakura Road

Old Kamakura Road

The "Kamakura Kodo" is a road that was developed to connect Kyoto and Kamakura when "Minamoto no Yoritomo" started Japan's first Shogunate regime in Kamakura (Kamakura Shogunate), and it became the essential road for east-west traffic.
Under orders, samurai warriors nationwide rallied in Kamakura where Yoritomo lived.
Even today this routine is remembered with the phrase "Iza, Kamakura", meaning "Going to Kamakura with haste for my lord (in a case that something major happens)"
Some parts of Kamakura Kodo are located in the city, it is the road leading to the west from Haraedo Shrine, which can be found on the west side of Mishima Taisha Shrine.
Tokaido is located to the south of it; It is one of the five highways from the Edo period and the main highway which connected Edo and Kyoto.
And it was developed by Tokugawa Ieyasu who started the Edo Shogunate regime.

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Address
Mishima, Shizuoka

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