【Motoyama Inn -Motoyamajuku-】 Location: Soga Motoyama, Shiojiri City

It flourished as the entrance to Kisoji Road and the exit of Matsumotodaira. The two-story lattice houses are lined up, and even now the faces of the incident remain Richly preserved, and it was introduced as the birthplace of Soba cutting.

In the 19th year of Keicho (1614), the three inns of Shiojiri, Washima, and Motoyama were decided to be the new Nakasendo inns, but they were not inns built by transportation of people from neighboring villages like Shiojiri Inn and Washima Inn, but were villages from the Middle Ages.
It is the 32nd Shukuba counted from Edo, and is Located in 30 towns to Arashima Inn and 2 ri to Niekawa Juku.

The inn was divided into upper and lower towns from the south, and there were honjin, wakihonjin, and wholesaler ands in the center. Hachimangu Shrine, Nagahisa Temple, and Tsunemitsu Temple and to the south of the inn, Suwa Shrine to the north of the inn, and Ikebu Shrine on the opposite bank of the Narai River were enshrined, but some of them have Temple been abandoned. In addition, since Motoyama was on the border with Kiso of the Owari Domain, a guard post was set up in the south of the inn, and women's reforms and timber reforms were carried out.
In Tenpo 14 (1843), there were 117 houses and 34 inns, and the inn house division is more 4~5 houses than the 3 frontages of Washima inn.

Although it has been hit by large fires many times, the buildings that remain today are built from the end of the Bakumatsu period to the Meiji period, and the faces of the Shukuba era are well preserved, such as the flat girder structure facing the road and the 2nd floor rooms with a thousand lattices.

Among them, three houses, the Akiyama family (Wakamatsuya), the Tanaka family (Ikeda family), and the Kobayashi family (Kawaguchi family), built around the time of the Meiji era, are designated as National Tangible Cultural Properties.
The Honjin and Kobayashi houses became accommodations when Emperor Ninko's princess Wagu married Tokugawa Ieshige in 1861, and during Emperor Meiji's visit in 1880 (Meiji 13).
Each house is given a store name, which is a reminder of those days.

In addition, the specialties is "Soba noodles", and it is stated that the birthplace of Soba cutting is Motoyama in the Sui brush of Yunling in the 3rd year of Hoei (1706).

Among the historical sites, there is a small hill behind the inn, which is said to have been protected by the Motoyama Minbu, a clan of the Kiso clan, Ruins of the Castle many ema are Dedication for begging for rain, sericulture, and treatment of eye diseases, and the shrine is a natural monument of Shiojiri City, and the Ikebu Shrine (Ike no Gongen), which is said to be a spiritual experience for begging for rain, sericulture, and eye disease treatment, and the Ikebu Shrine (Ike no Gongen), which is a natural monument of Shiojiri City, There are the Shitamachi stone group lined with Dōsōjin and Koshin Pagoda inscriptions.

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