Copper Road - Akagane Kaido

Japanese: 銅街道 - あかがねかいどう

A highway connecting Hiratsuka in the southeast of Isesaki City, Gunma Prefecture, and Ashio in the southwest of Nikko City, Tochigi Prefecture. Since the early modern period, it was used to transport copper from the Ashio Copper Mine. There were five post towns on the road: Sawan, Hanawa, Omama, Ohara, and Hiratsuka. Copper was sent by boat from Hiratsuka Riverbank down the Tone River, via Sekijuku and Edogawa River, to Edo. After the Meiji period, copper exports were shifted to Nikko, and the highway fell into decline. A copper storehouse from that time remains in Omama.

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Japanese:

群馬県伊勢崎市南東部の平塚と栃木県日光市南西部の足尾とを結ぶ街道。近世以降足尾銅山の銅を運搬するのに利用された。沢入，花輪，大間々，大原，平塚の5宿が置かれ，銅は平塚河岸から船で利根川を下り，関宿，江戸川を経て江戸へ送られた。明治以後銅の搬出が日光に移り，街道は衰微。大間々には当時の銅蔵が残る。

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