Site of the Kuchidome Guard House
Checkpoint for Travelers
This was the site of a guardhouse during the Warring States period (1467–1600) and the first decades of the Edo period (1603–1868). Different guardhouses had different roles: some checked for contraband wood; others, like this one, monitored human traffic by checking travel permits.
A guardhouse for monitoring wood shipments was established in Kudaridani, about 3.5 kilometers south of here, in the mid-seventeenth century. When that was washed away in a flood in 1749, the checkpoint was rebuilt a few kilometers further south in Ichikokutochi, where it operated until 1869.