{"id":10100,"date":"2025-05-20T20:20:34","date_gmt":"2025-05-20T10:20:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=10100"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T11:09:53","slug":"japan-nakasendo-trail-day-3-nagiso-to-magome-juku-via-tsumagu-juku-and-magome-pass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=10100","title":{"rendered":"Japan Nakasendo Trail – Day 3 Nagiso to Magome-juku via Tsumagu-juku and Magome Pass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our last day of hiking the Nakasendo Trail was from Nagiso to Magome-juku via the historic and picturesque post town of Tsumagu-juku and then up the 6km ascent to Magome Pass and then down 2km or so descent to the also picturesque village of Magome-juku.<\/p>\n

For this section, we decided to cheat a bit as it was sunny weather, so we arranged for our backpacks to be transferred to Magome-juku Information Centre at a cost of about $AU20 per bag, and we caught the bus from Nagiso to Tsumagu-juku so we skipped the weeping cherry tree section of the walk.<\/p>\n

Tsumagu-juku<\/H2><\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village temple taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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1st human drawn cart in Japan c150yrs ago – taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village wisteria taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Tsumagu village taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Vase<\/p>\n

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Local tailor showing off his hand made clothing<\/p>\n

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Many houses and buildings had these old indoor open fireplaces for cooking and boiling water – although apparently no longer in use<\/p>\n

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mud wall detail<\/p>\n

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Local man with his dog enjoying the attention<\/p>\n

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Local crafts<\/p>\n

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The trail from Tsumagu-juku to Magome-Juku via Magome Pass<\/H2><\/p>\n

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Taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Wisteria – this is very commonly seen growing wild amongst the forest trees in the region<\/p>\n

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Cherry blossoms growing wild in the forests<\/p>\n

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Moss-like growths hanging from a tree with dangling white flowers growing wild in the forest<\/p>\n

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Bridge crossing and cascading stream on our ascent – Taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Even though we were late for the official cherry blossom season, they were still in full bloom near the top of Magome Pass<\/p>\n

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Taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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Taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

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The local man who made green tea for hikers near top of Magome Pass<\/p>\n

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Magome chainsaw sculptor and his gardens<\/p>\n

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rain drain “pipe” common in Japan<\/p>\n

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Coming into Magome-juku – Panorama taken with Samsung phone<\/p>\n

All photos taken with Olympus OMD EM1 III with 75mm f\/1.8 (or Samsung phone if specified as such)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our last day of hiking the Nakasendo Trail was from Nagiso to Magome-juku via the historic and picturesque post town of Tsumagu-juku and then up the 6km ascent to Magome Pass and then down 2km or so descent to the also picturesque village of Magome-juku. For this section, we decided to cheat a bit as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,181],"tags":[211,241,668,14,156],"class_list":["post-10100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography","category-travel-photography","tag-japan","tag-micro-four-thirds","tag-nakasendo","tag-olympus","tag-travel"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10100"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10188,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10100\/revisions\/10188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}