Sado Travel Guide Map 🗾 Sado Tourist Information Center Scale: 1:100,000
[Introduction to Old Maps of Niigata] 🧐
"Sado Travel Guide Map" 🗾
Sado Tourist Information Center
Scale: 1:100,000
A folding map of the entire Sado Island, printed to be placed in the hands of travelers.
The front is a colored map, and the back is a tourist guide.
A single sheet used as a travel tool 📃
[Content and Commentary] 🧐
⚫︎ The title is "Sado Travel Guide Map".
The mountain ranges of Osado and Kosado and the Kuninaka Plain are expressed in vivid colors, and transportation routes such as prefectural roads, motor roads, uncompleted roads, steamship routes, village roads, and mountain pass roads are carefully drawn with color coding. It includes a legend full of symbols for tourism and living infrastructure, such as shrines, temples, old castles, scenic spots, historic sites, post offices, telephones, and thermometers.
⚫︎ A wide-area map showing the positional relationship with the mainland side (Niigata/Teradomari area) is inserted in the lower right of the map. The depiction of the Sado Kisen steamship route extending to the opposite shore captures the geographical sense of isolation of the island on paper.
⚫︎ The back side contains Sado tourism guide text in multiple columns.
Information on various parts of the island, such as historic sites, hot springs, inns, and transportation guides, is described in detail, making this a single sheet that functions as a travel guidebook.
⚫︎ One way to enjoy such travel guide maps is to "trace the tourist routes of the time."
If you trace the red-marked prefectural roads and steamship routes with your finger, the route of a Sado trip from the past naturally emerges.
📖 A "cross-section of history" told by paper—a map of Sado that has been opened and folded in the hands of travelers.
The island's mountains, roads, and sea are packed into a single sheet of paper 😌
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