Reihoku Sunset Marche — October Announcement📣
We are pleased to announce the Reihoku Sunset Marche will take place in October♪
👀 Highlights of this Sunset Marche 👀

❣ Freshly harvested rice from the 2025 crop (late-harvest rice and sun-dried rice) will be offered at bargain prices!
Just-picked lettuce and zucchini will also be available 🥬
In addition to produce, prepared foods will be on sale too ❣
We look forward to seeing you 😊 Don’t forget to bring your own shopping bag 🛍✨

[Planned Produce for Sale]

・Okra (white okra)
・Cucumbers
・Water spinach (kangkong)
・Rice (new crop, late-harvest rice, sun-dried rice)
・Extra-early mikan (mandarin oranges)
・Jumbo peanuts
・Zucchini
・Banana peppers
・Bell peppers
・Lettuce

🥦🍅🥕🍠🥬🧅🫑🌽🌶🫛🍆🫚🥔
Reihoku Sunset Marche
[Date] Sunday, October 12 — 1:00 PM to 3:30 PM
[Venue] Amakusa Reihoku Tourism Association
※ Reihoku Town Product Center facility (4535-1 Kamitsufukae, Reihoku)

The 3rd “Amakusa Reihoku Literary Walk” tourism route creation workshop was held🎊


On September 25, the third workshop was held in Reihoku to develop a sightseeing walking route that turns literary spots and heritage in Reihoku Town into new tourist resources, allowing visitors to enjoy the “Literary Treasures of Reihoku.”✨


This third session focused on taking a deeper look at writers connected to Reihoku Town. Participants researched as if they were actually guiding tours and presented their findings to one another. Each participant’s guide showed a unique personality, making for an absorbing time.👏



The final, fourth workshop is planned for late October to early November♪


We will hold a fun workshop to exchange opinions based on the walking route proposals and guide manual developed from previous workshops, so please join us.👀


*We plan to open applications on our website in early October.*



We also welcome ideas and insider tips for route planning from those who cannot attend the workshop. Please take the survey in the notices section on our website!



Contact: Amakusa Reihoku Tourism Association (Ogata) ☎0969-31-1136


*This workshop is held as part of the Kumamoto Future Creation Startup Subsidy Project for fiscal 2025.*

【Nakasendo and 5 Post Towns in Shiojiri City】

There are 69 Shukuba on the Nakasendo Road between Edo Japan Bridge and Kyoto Sanjo Ohashi Bridge.
Although there are more hills in the Shiojiri City area than on the Tokaido, there was no long stay in the river, so we were able to pass as planned.
There were five shukuba on the Nakasendo road in the Shiojiri city area: Shiojiri Inn, Washima Inn, Motoyama Inn, Niekawa Juku, and Narai Juku.

(1) Shiojiri Inn -Shiojirijuku- (30th from Edo Japan Bridge)
Shiojiri inn was set up in Sakai in the Matsumoto and Suwa territories to change Rice shells and contraband items, and the honjin and wakihonjin used for attendance shifts were established, and the number of hatagoya was the second largest in Nakasendo and the largest in Shinano at the end of the Bakumatsu shogunate.

(2) Washima inn -Barajuku- (31st from Edo Japan Bridge)
It is a Shukuba that corresponds to the follow-up of the Nakasendo Road and Zenkoji Temple Highway. The inn was equipped with one of only three Kanme Kaisho on Nakasendo. Most of the faces of the Shukuba were destroyed by the great fire in the early Showa period, but the stone lantern of the night light remains in the place where it hits.

(3) Motoyama inn -Motoyamajuku- (32nd from Edo Japan Bridge)
Motoyama inn is said to be the birthplace of Soba cutting. It flourished as the entrance to Kisoji Road and the exit of Matsumotodaira. Honjin became a Accommodation when the Imperial Princess Wagu married Tokugawa Ieshige and during the Meiji Emperor's visit in 1880 (Meiji 13).

(4) Niekawa Juku -Niekawajuku- (33rd from Edo Japan Bridge)
Niekawa Juku is the entrance to Kisoji 11 Inn. As a transportation hub on the Nakasendo Highway, the Kakegawa Checkpoint was located, and it developed in the Accommodation industry and remote area commerce.

(5) Narai juku -Naraijuku- (34th from Edo Japan Bridge)
The Shukuba was called "Narai Senken" and was crowded. Richly preserved of the faces of that time, it is now visited by many people as a popular Sightseeing spot.