Picturesque nature around, better view from the shrine up, there is a not well kept path but it connects to a more kept one after a few meters.

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Interesting little tunnel supposedly hand-hewn during the Edo period, but can't make out any tool marks. At least I couldn't. Ambience a bit let down by the modern tarmac and there's no parking nearby so bikers or a bit of a hike required to see it. Worth a quick stop if driving past.

You can get there in about 10 minutes on foot from Shiromaru Station. The location of the old road, used with minor modifications since the 1700s in the Edo period, is also shown on a notice board, which was very interesting. In an era without tunnels like today's, people built roads by hand, even carving away the rock near the pass so people and horses could get through — the labor of people back then is truly awe-inspiring❗ If you look closely at the cutting, traces of the handwork of Edo-period stonecutters remain beautifully intact. That being the case, it's hard to say modern people built the road from scratch; you could say they merely used machines to rearrange and rebuild near the hand-made road laid by people of old.

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Visited on a walking trip along the old Ome Kaido. This is where, in the Edo period, a rocky hill was dug through by human power to make a cutting for crossing the mountain. Amazing! Beyond here it's a dead end and dangerous to go down to the national road, so it's safest to go back the way you came.

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I headed there from Okutama Station, passing in front of Moegi no Yu and along the Kazuma Gorge Promenade, but the map I got from the tourism association was hard to follow, I got a bit lost, and it took longer than expected, so I'd honestly recommend just heading there from Shiromaru Station. From around the entrance leading to the Kazuma cutting, the air particular to a cutting was flowing, and a breeze blew through🍃 Walking the atmospheric old road, the hand-made cutting appeared before me, and as I passed through it step by step, a pleasant breeze blew through again🍃 Above the cutting there's a small shrine⛩ Was it watching over travelers?? I took a short rest there. A spot I recommend for people who love old roads, cuttings, and history.

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