Old Kusu Road

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10 minutes from JR Toyooka station.

In the Toyooka area in the west of Hiji there was an enclave belonging to the Kurushima family of the Mori Domain, who ruled the area centered around Kusu.The road connecting this enclave with the Mori Domain territories was a 38km-long road called Kusu Road.
On the Daimyo-Kaido Road, so-called because it was used for the feudal lord's official attendance services, ships would arrive and depart from Kashiranari harbor.
As the main road from which information came in from Kyoto and Edo (now Tokyo), the Old Kusu Road also served as the main thoroughfare transporting the annual rice tax and other various goods.

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