Kiga Barrier

A barrier used to be a facility for inspection and tax collection, installed in strategic locations in traffic. Speaking in modern terms, it is equivalent to the present-day immigration points at airports. In order to pass, a traffic (passage) certificate called “tsuko tegata” was required, and people who did not have such a certificate were not allowed to pass.

Kiga Barrier was built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the 6th year of the Keicho period (1601).
The Princess Road (Himekaido) reaches the Kiga Barrier to exit to the north of Lake Hamana as a side street of Tokaido.

The building survived until the 35th year of the Showa Era (1960), but it was later dismantled.
The present building has been restored using materials specific to the period of the original construction.

When you enter inside, there are reproduction dolls from old times, so it is possible to get in touch with the history of Japan.