太田の渡し跡

There is no guidance on site. Just crawling the stone pavement toward the riverside.

I walked along the embankment with friends and talked! It was great! I want to go again, this time with a lunch ...

"Kiso no Kakehashi, Ota no Kakehashi, Usui Pass should be eliminated" … And was counted as one of the three major obstacles on Nakasendo This is the "Old Ota Passing Site". Ota-juku is counted from Edo Nihonbashi on the 69th Nakasendo Road. The 52nd post town, in front of it, about a ri and a half after leaving Fushimi inn There is this "Ota's passing trace". Currently, there is nothing that keeps the shadow of the past only to the extent that it leaves a few cobblestones, When you stand on the cobblestones and look at the river surface, you can imagine the traffic of people in the past. It seems that the ferryboat has changed its location and appearance many times with the times, but this ferryboat trace is It was used until the next Ota Bridge was completed in 1927. ■ First photo Ichi. On-site information signboard ... A difficult place on Nakasendo, "Ota no Watashi" 2. It is the scenery of the ferryboat around 1945. * Is it around the current left bank (Minokamo city side) embankment that you can see behind? Around this time, the Imawatari Dam (started in 1945 / completed in 1945), which is immediately upstream, was I don't think it was there yet, and the amount of flowing water was large, so it was a fairly torrent. Was it winter when this photo was taken? People wearing thick winter clothes The difficulty of those days is conveyed from the cold atmosphere of riding a lot. Reference. Hiroshige Ando "Tokaido 69th-Ota no Watashi-" Hiroshige also passed here. It seems that Matsuo Basho also passed (in another article) As expected, Mt. Fuji is not drawn in this picture, but the alternative mountain is Is it "Mt. Ena", which has been selected as "100 Famous Mountains of Japan by Hisaya Fukada"? 4. You can see the opposite bank (Kani City) from the ruins of the ferry port in the past. Next to it is "Old Ota Bridge" ... A little upstream is "Shin Ota Bridge". Also, just above this is the Japan Rhine boarding area, which is famous for going down the line. It used to be on the left bank (Kani City side) about 4 km downstream from here. ■ Second photo Ichi. There are still stone pavements heading to the ferry port. 2. There was only one place, not a stone pavement, but a beautiful paving stone in front of the dock. Was there a simple building on top of this? (Toll booth?) Visit. It is a downhill just before the landing. There must have been a lot of people coming and going here. 4. This is a side view of the tip of the place of visit. At that time, there were no bridges, no embankments, The world was full of fish and the water was much cleaner than it is now.