新居関所 (Arai Sekisho and Hatago-Kinokuniya Archives)
The Arai Sekisho and Hatago-Kinokuniya Archives in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka is an important travel checkpoint on the Tokaido highway that was established in 1600 by Ieyasu Tokugawa, and is the only surviving original building of such a checkpoint. The checkpoint enforced strict regulations to keep guns out of Totomi precinct, and to keep women in. The archives hall next door contains old checkpoint records.