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DESCRIPTION OF A TRIP TO NIIGATA,
ALONG THE SHINSHIU-ROAD AND BACK
BY THE MIKUNI PASS.
BY
J. A. LINDO, Esq.
Read before the Asiatic Society of Japan,
18th November, 1874.
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From Yedo, Niigata may be reached by two different roads, both of which follow for the first part the Nakasendô, the one as far as Takasaki, and the other up to Oïwake, which is 12 ri farther on. From Takasaki the first road branches off N. over the Mikuni pass to Niigata. At Oïwake the Nakasendô itself bends to the S. while the Hokkok’kaidô, as it is called, runs W. to the borders of the Province of Echigo, and so reaches Niigata.
Both roads running together up to Takasaki, a short description of this part of the Nakasendô may first be given.
The annexed itinerary gives the distances of the several villages between Yedo and Takasaki, between which a daily coach is running, leaving each place in summer time at 5 a.m. arriving at 7 p.m. at the other, so that the trip is made in 14 hours.
