The bus ride to Magome will cost you JPY 600, and the walk along the Nakasendo Highway will take you back to Tsumago in around 25 minutes. Several hundred years ago, the Nakasendo stretched from Kyoto to Tokyo across the wooded highlands of central Japan.
You'll walk along a beautiful stretch of road for about seven and a half kilometers (km) through peaceful agricultural communities, rice paddies, and towering cedar trees connecting the historic trading outposts that previously protected the Daimyo lords and their massive armies.
If you take time, the trek should only take approximately three hours.
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