Stone+Paved+Roads

There are stone-paved roads all over Kyoto, Japan. They can be in modern villages, or villages that act as they are centries old. The Gion District is just one downtown area full of stone-paved roads with different temples, shops, and restaurants. Some may say that the stone-paved roads create the atmosphere of Kyoto.

The stone-paved road at Kinjo was one section of the Madamamichi, a very important road linking Shuri with Naha Port and the southern part of Okinawa Island in the 16th century. The whole road is made out of Ryukyu limestone. Now there are only 300 meters left out of the once 10 kilometers (10,000 meters) of the Madamamichi. The road was built during the Ryukyu Kingdom period.

These limestone masterpieces took hard work and time, all for us to walk on.