【宿場町】醒井宿と梅花藻 滋賀県-Samegai-juku & Meihua algae : Shiga Prefecture,Japan

滋賀県の醒井宿へ行ってまいりました。清水でしか生息できない梅花藻とかつての宿場町が多くの観光客を迎え入れていました。現在でもかつての宿場町を感じさせてくれる町並みと滔々と湧き出る清流が素晴らしい空気を運んでいるようで町全体がパワースポットとでもいえるような上品な活気に満ち溢れていました。
Samegai-juku (醒井宿 Samegai-juku) was the sixty-first of the sixty-nine stations of the Nakasendō. It is located in the present-day city of Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.
Samegai-juku served as an important transportation hub for many centuries and its existence was documented in the Nihon Shoki, which was completed in 720. Many travelers enjoyed its fresh and clear waters from the nearby river and thought of Samegai as a proper resting place.
There are still ten buildings remaining from the Edo period today, giving visitors an idea of how the town looked hundreds of years ago.There is also an archives museum which gives greater detail to the post town's past.