A handbook for travellers in Japan, including Formosa

Front matter

ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP LINE

PACIFIC "EMPRESS" STEAMSHIPS

EMPRESS OF ASIA — EMPRESS OF RUSSIA (15,000 Tons Each)

Preface To The Ninth Edition

This edition of the Handbook has been revised throughout, — a revision amounting to the rewriting of several routes and the incorporation of numerous changes all over the country, necessitated by the extension of railways, electric trams, and other improvements. At the same time, it has been borne in mind that picturesque " Old Japan/' so far as it still survives, is what the majority of intelligent persons come out to see. The total result, it is hoped, will supply travellers with a vade-mecum which, while retaining all needful information concerning temples, art treasures, legends, flower festivals, and the other charming peculiarities of this fascinating land, is also thoroughly practical and up to date.

Japan's new possessions on the Asiatic mainland, differing widely as they do in language, customs, etc., from Japan proper, do not fall within the scope of this work.

The authors' thanks are due to the Eev. Walter Weston, Mr. H. E. Daunt, Mr. E. L. Gordon, Mr. Horace Nutter, Mr. J. Orange, the Rev. H.B. Schwartz, and many other correspondents for valuable information courteously supplied ; and to Mr. Werner Vieth for assistance of various kinds. Mr. Edward Beart has once more given his competent services in reading the proof-sheets.

Suggestions and corrections will be much appreciated.

Introduction

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1. General 1

2. Steam Communication 2

3. Custom-House 3

4. Public Holidays....... 3

5. Guides 3

6. Posts ; Telegraphs ; Banks. 4

7. Currency 4

8. Weights and Measures 4

9. Inns ; Travelling Expenses 6

10. Climate ; Dress ; Time of Visit 7

11. Provisions 9

12. Means of Locomotion ; Luggage 10

13. Where to Go and What to See 11

14. Purchase and Shipment of Goods 12

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15. Shooting 12

16. Fishing 13

17. Miscellaneous Hints 14

19. The Shinto Religion 35

21. List of Gods and Goddesses 43

23. Outline of Japanese History 61

26. Population of the Chief

Cities 87

27. Christian Missions 88

Glossary of Japanese Words ... 92

KOUTES.

Section I. — Eastern Japan

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2. Excursions from Yokohama 101

3. From Yokohama to Tokyo. 109

4. Tokyo Ill

5. Excursions from Tdkyo ... 137

6. Miyanoshita and Hakone... 146

7. The Peninsula of Izu 155

8. Fuji and Neighbourhood ... 160

9. Shoji and the Rapids of the Fujikawa 168

10. Chichibu and the Temple

of Mitsumine 170

11. Tokyo-Takasaki-Karuizawa Railway; Mydgi-san 172

12. Karuizawa and Asamayama 175

13. Ikao Kusatsu, and Neighbourhood 180

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14. The Shimizu-goe and Mikuni-toge 188

15. The Oyama-Maebashi Railway « 190

16. Nikk5 and Chuzenji 191

17. From Yumoto to Ikao over the Konsei-toge 209

18. From Nikkd to Ikao via Ashio and the Valley of the Watarase-gawa 210

19. From Wakamatsu to Nikko by the Valley of the Kinugawa 212

20. Shiobara and Nasu 213

21. The Provinces of Shimosa, Kazusa, and Boshu 215

22. The East Coast Railway ... 221

Contents.

Section II. — Central Japan

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23. TheT5kaido 227

24. Steamer Voyage from Yokohama to Kobe 242

25. The Karuizawa - Naoetsu- Niigata-Railway ; Island of Sado 243

26. The Mountains on the N.W. Boundary of Shinshu and Echigo 250

27. From Shinonoito Shiojiri... 252

28. The Central Railway from Nagoya to Shiojiri 254

29. Mountains of Hida and Etchu 257

30. Ways to and from Kofu ... 273

31. Valley of the Hayakawa ... 284

32. Mountains between the Fujikawa and the Tenryu-gawa 286

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33. Rapids of the Tenryu-gawa 289

34. The Shrines of Ise 291

35. K5be and Neighbourhood. . . 302

36. Osaka and Neighbourhood 307

37. Kydto and Neighbourhood 313

38. Lake Biwa 344

39. Nara and Neighbourhood... 349

40. Through Yamato to Koya-san and Wakayama in Kishu 357

41. The Mountains of Yamato 371

42. Through Kumano to Ise ... 372

43. Minor Itineraries in Kishu 382

44. From Kyoto to Maizuru and fT^ Ama-no-Hashidate 383

45. From Lake Biwa to Ama-no-Hashidate 386

46. The West Coast from Tsuruga to Naoetsu 388

Section III. — Western Japan and the Inland Sea

47. The Inland Sea and the Chief Places on and near the Northern Shore 395

48. The Island of Awaji 408

49. From Kobe to the Ikuno Mines and Kinosaki 412

50. Matsue, Temple of Izumo, and the OM Islands 413

51. The West Coast from Matsue to Tottori and on

to Wadayama 418

Section IV. — The Island of Shikoku

52. North-Eastern Shikoku 423

53. North- Western Shikoku ... 430

54. Valley of the Yoshino-gawa 434

55. Western Shikoku from Matsuyama to Uwajima . . . 436

56. Ways to and from Kochi ... 437

Section V. — Kyushu and Outlying Islands

57. Nagasaki and Neighbourhood 445

58. Unzen and the Shimabara Peninsula 448

59. The Island of Hirado 450

60. The Kyushu Railway from Nagasaki to Moji 451

61. Yabakei and the Rapids of the Chikugo-gawa 456

62. Hiko-san and on to Nakatsu 457

63. The Kyushu Railway from Tosu to Kagoshima 458

64. Volcanoes near Kagoshima 464

65. Through Satsuma and Amakusa to Nagasaki 466

66. From Kumamoto to Aso-san and Beppu 467

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67. From Kumamoto to Nobe- 1 68. The Goto Islands and Tsuoka and Oita. S.E. Kyushu 472 | shima 474

Section VI. — Northern Japan

69. The Northern Railway 477

70. Wakamatsu and Bandai-san 485

71. From Niigata to Wakamatsu 488

72. From Niigata to Tsuru-ga-oka 488

74. From Fukushima to Yamagata, Akita and Aomori 492

75. From Funagata to Sakata, and up the North- West Coast to AMta 497

76. The North-East Coast 499

77. The Tonami Peninsula 501

Section VII. — The Island of Yezo (Hokkaido); the Kurile Islands and Saghallen

78. Hakodate and Neighbourhood 505

79. Excursions from Hakodate 506

80. From Hakodate to Otaru, Sapporo, and Muroran 510

81. From Otaru to Kushiro and Abashiri 514

82. The South-East Coast and the Southern Kuriles 516

83. Saghalien 518