On August 11, we had take a drive to
Iizuka city (飯塚市) located at the confluence of the Honami and Onga rivers in central
Fukuoka Prefecture. The city was an important post station on the
Nagasaki-kaido (長崎街道) during the
Edo era.
We had decided to go to Uchino-shuku around the Chikuzen-Uchino Station on JR Chikuho Line. Uchino-shuku was opened in the Hiyamizu Highway that was developed
in response to the life of Kuroda Nagamasa, the lord of Fukuoka Domain in about 300 years ago.
Once some celebrities of the Edo era, such as Philipp Franz von Siebold, doctor of the Dutch Trading Post in Nagasaki, Ino Tadataka (伊能忠敬) who made a map of Japan, Sakamoto Ryoma (坂本竜馬) and major feudal lords passed through this road towards Edo.
Walking in the old town is so easy:
There are only 600 meters long from the west of Yamae-shuku side to east of Iizuka-shuku side. A forked road that divides in the middle of reverse side by t-shape, is going to the town headquarter and rest house. The road through the side of rest house has continued to Dazaifu.
Kokura-ya (小倉屋) was a pawnshop who ran by a money exchange business at that time. It is a well-kept Machiya (町屋) style building which is the appearance of the Meiji era first half.
The Nagasaki-ya (長崎屋) rest house is the only tourist facility of the old town. It is used to be an inn for Sankin-kotai travelers. In 2004, it was opened as a rest facility to the visitors. And it provides local dishes using homemade foodstuff. Booking is required in advance 3 days before. Menu will be changed by season, but you'll enjoy the food of local mothers have made carefully adopting the wisdom of their ancestors.
The museum has on display a number of valuable materials that tell the history as a post town, it's freely available as a resting place.
The Ito family's residence (伊藤家) at the south end of the post town. This is the mansion of the Ito Den-emon family, the kingmaker of coal mine in the Meiji era. He also had conducted to making sake inside the house at that time.
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