Updated Date: 2019-03-16
The highway almost overlaps with National Route 396, but some roads are dug down several meters to eliminate widening and elevation. You will enter Osako-cho (currently Hanamaki City) about 1 km from Sabinai where the Takasaba (Ko-saba) was. Just before the turning point into the town of Osako, a monument (built by Tenpo 8/1837) stands with the leader of one hundred and one surnames who had been executed in search of the opposition to grain reform. Osako is a post office called "Obari arena lined with a row ... a good town Namiya" ("Saioku Ijiji Shoki").