Hello! This is the Kawazu Tourism Association.
Sorry to keep you waiting! The "34th Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival" will finally be held from tomorrow!

In this post, we will introduce recommended sightseeing spots when visiting Kawazu Town at the Kawazu Cherry Blossom Festival!

This time, we will introduce "Amagisan Tunnel (former Amagi Tunnel, Amagi Sanzuido)".

Mt. Amagi, which separates the north and south of the Izu Peninsula, was a major obstacle to transportation.
Therefore, a total construction cost of 103,016 yen 44 sen 1 厎 was spent, which was a large amount at that time, and it was opened in Meiji 38 (1905) as a tunnel connecting Izu City (former Amagi Yugashima Town) and Kawazu Town.
With the completion of this tunnel, the difficult point of crossing Amagi has been resolved.
Today, it is one of the famous places of the Odoriko Trail, and was designated as a national important cultural property for the first time in 2001 (Heisei 13) as the longest and oldest stone road in Japan with a width of 4.12 m and a length of 445.5 m. The tunnel is built using a method called the "cut stone winding method", and the stone is made of Yoshida stone from the former Ōhito Town.

◆ Detailed information ◆
【Spot name】Amagisan Tunnel (Old Amagi Tunnel)
【Address】National Highway 411 (Shimoda Kaido / Amagi Kaido)
【Phone number】0558-32-0290 (Kawazu Tourism Association)
【Parking lot】There is an aquatic underground parking lot for about 17 cars, a second floor waterfall parking lot for about 15 cars