Shirakawa_Barrier
Shirakawa Barrier
Frontier fortification in Fukushima, Japan
The Shirakawa Barrier (白河の関, Shirakawa no seki) is the location of a frontier fortification on the Ōshū Kaidō highway in what is now the Hatajuku neighborhood of the city of Shirakawa, Fukushima Japan, three kilometers south of the border of Tochigi Prefecture[1] The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1966.,[2] and is part of the Shirakawa Seki-no-mori Park, containing a reconstructed ancient house and preserved old farm houses.