Arai Sekisho新居関所

Arai Sekisho新居関所 - 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. Its official name was the . In 1921, the site was recognized as a National Historic Site, and in recognition that it had only surviving Edo-period checkpoint structure remaining in the country, its status was upgraded to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1962. Read more on Wikipedia

type: building
date from: None
official website: http://hamaguru.com/sekisho/

Source: en.wikipedia.org