抄録
In this paper the author have studied, from the histrico-geographical point of view that the function and morphology of a transportation settlement were changed chiefly by the advanced moder transportation.
The traffic of Kimitoge Pass in Kii province was began in 798 by the foundation of the Nankaido (public road). In Tokugawa shognate the public coaching station (Denmasyo) of Kisyu-Han was established at Kimitoge Pass (1648). Such feature went on the early part of Meiji-Era and this settlement have had the landscape of town.
At that time, main road beyond this pass was jisonin-road which had different course from present road.
The Denmasyo continued under the financial support and the protection of the Han and Koyasan Temple. Beside Honjin, Waki-Honjin, and this settlement had many inns and tea-houses.
It had lost, however, the characteristic as the key-point of traffic since the Kiwa-railway was established in 1900 and the Koya Tozan-raiway in 1915. Peoples who lived in the sttlement removed to Kutukake, Togesita settlements, and a part of them have come to commute to Osaka as laborers.
