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Hakone Seki箱根関

Hakone Seki箱根関 Hakone Seki箱根関 - Credit: Wikimedia Commons

The was a security checkpoint which was established by the Tokugawa Shogunate on the Tōkaidō highway connecting the capital of Edo with Kyoto in Edo period Japan. In 1923, the site was recognized as a National Historic Site. Read more on Wikipedia

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