
16 Season
464 Episode
Document 72 Hours - Season 14 Episode 23 Kiso Road in Early Summer
A stone-paved road with sunlight streaming through the trees from green trees. The setting is Kisoji, a mountain road that straddles Nagano and Gifu. It was one of the most important highways in the Edo period (1603-1867), and even today, in 2025, many people from Japan and abroad come to walk it. A group of three families hiking 8 km between inns. A man practicing trail running on a dirt road. Some people are confronting themselves as they walk. What kind of encounters will we have along the way during the three days in early summer when we come and go between the inns?
- Year: 2025
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Documentary
- Studio: NHK BS1, NHK, NHK WORLD-JAPAN
- Keyword: everyday people, life and times, soko ga shiritai
- Director: NHK
- Cast: Ryo Katsuchi, Saniko Ichikawa, Mariko Yagi, Maito Fujioka, Aoi Yamada, Kazue Fukiishi