Unno-juku, a beautifully preserved Edo-period post town remaining in Tomi City. The townscape that flourished as a station on the Hokkoku Kaido highway has been designated a National Important Preservation District for Historic Building Groups, and whitewashed earthen-warehouse buildings still convey the atmosphere of the town's heyday. Located on land associated with the white bird legend of Yama…

Unno-juku is said to have developed as a post town with the establishment of the Hokkoku Kaido highway by the Edo shogunate in 1601 (Keicho 6). Flourishing as a key point on the Hokkoku Kaido connecting Ueda and Komoro, it developed a distinctive townscape of whitewashed earthen-warehouse merchant h…