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The Utsunoya-tōge Pass (宇津ノ谷峠 Utsunoya-tōge) is a pass on the old Tōkaidō highway connecting the capital of Edo with Kyoto. Located between former Mariko-juku in what is now Aoi-ku Shizuoka and Okabe-juku in what is now Fujieda it is the only portion of the Heian period road known to have survived to the present day and was proclaimed a National Historic Site on February 22 2010.The route of the ancient Tōkaidō highway skirted the coast of Suruga Bay during the Nara period.
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