Nakasendo Trail Guide: Best Sections, Distance, Difficulty & How to Hike It If you have searched “Nakasendo Trail” before landing here, you have probably already hit the confusion that trips up nearly every first-time visitor: some pages say the Nakasendo is 530 km, others describe it as a comfortable 8 km walk between two post … Read more
The Kiso Valley is one of those places travelers overthink — and I don’t blame them. Magome, Tsumago and Narai are spread along a rural transport corridor where trains and buses run every hour or two, not every few minutes. On a map the post towns look close together; in reality, the transport between them, … Read more
The Narai to Yabuhara hike crosses Torii Pass (鳥居峠, 1,197 m), the high point of the Nakasendo between the post towns of Narai-juku and Yabuhara-juku in Nagano. It is one of the quieter ways to walk a real stretch of the old highway, but it is also the most strenuous Nakasendo section in the Kiso Valley—so … Read more