Nisaka-toge Pass Route

Umegadani Station → 2.6 Km 40 mins. → Nisaka-toge Pass → 2.1 Km 30 mins. →
Starting Point →1 Km 30 mins. → Under Route 42 → 1 Km 20 mins. →
Michi-no-eki Kii-Nagashima Manbo Rest Station → 1.3 Km 30 mins. → Kii-Nagashima Station

For centuries, the gateway to Kishu. Province was Tsuzuratotoge Pass. However, since the time of Tokugawa Noriyori, founder of the Kishu-han Fief of the Tokugawa Shogunate, Nisaka-toge Pass route lying to the east became the formal entry to the Province. Presently Route 42 and the JR Kisei Line also cross Nisaka-toge Pass. Station to Nisaka-toge Pass runs along Route 42. From the pass a natural winding path leads down past nearby Okimi-daira, a popular viewing spot.
Be sure not to miss the board engraved with two haiku, 5-7-5 syllable poetry, one of them created by Suzuki Bokushi, a travel writer from the Edo Period.
嶋山や霞も込めず千々の景.
Shima-yama-ya kasumi-mo-komezu chiji-no-kei.Each piece of scenery of islands and hills with no veil of mist
A teahouse is said to have been on the Pass until the mid 1930’s.

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