Several bloggers have written about 矢坂宿(Yasaka inn town) as an unofficial inn town between Okayama and Itakura. The only thing I found about this inn town is that there is a honjin ruins.
Here is the overview.
Seriously, due to scarcity of online data about this inn town, I am just going on Google map and find out what’s in there.
This is the sign of direction to Kitamuki Hachiman shrine. The shrine is located at the bottom of the small mountain. The shrine was allegedly established in late 9th century, and relocated to the current place in 1894.
This monument is one of haiku master Basho’s poems. However, Basho did not travel west of Akashi(We already passed by) in his lifetime. My guess is that someone who liked him or had some association with him just erected the monument here.
This looks like a house that used to have a horse barn.
Keep going west.
These houses look like at least of Edo-Meiji(mid-late 180s) period.
So Yasaka honjin this has become a group home today. The group home even honors the history of thus inn town as it took the name of “honjin”.
So this part of Google map aerial view does not match with the street view. The aerial view is some years or months older, and the street view shows that the house has been destroyed and the land was cleared up. I wonder if there was an old house
Jiso statues are seen throughout any old routes as usual, and often have some stories to tell us. But about this one in particular, I could not find any info.
Some more old houses.
Throughout Saigoku Kaido route, old houses are spread out more than Tokaido route.
Yasaka unofficial inn town is about 25-30 minutes walk from JR Bizen-Mikado station.
The next stop is Itakura inn town.
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