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Introducing western Japan's life

I am a Japanese woman. I introduce western Japan area information and culture. And I will write about my life style. But I am not good at English.This is also for English practice.If you find an error in my text, please let me know.

Sekigahara Battlefield & Sekigahara War Land

Gifu History

There was a big war in Sekigahara, Gifu Prefecture in 1600.
Approximately 160,000 people fought and at least 8,000 were killed.
The area is approximately 50 square kilometers.
Today's Sekigahara is a peaceful countryside.

 

 


Horse fence

 


Samurai Hosokawa base ruins.

 


General Tokugawa Ieyasu base ruins.

 

The end of the battle

 

I went around on a rented bicycle.
There are restaurants and cafes.
Sekigahara is the border between eastern and western Japan.
You can try both the light-colored soba soup from western Japan and the dark-colored soba soup from eastern Japan.

 

”Sekigahara Warland” theme park is nearby.

General checking enemy's head.

Samurai Otani loses the battle, so he commits Harakiri.

”You can open the future, but you can't open this door."


He says "No more war".