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 Itinerary from Yedo to Tsukuba:

The easiest way of returning to Yedo from Tsukuba is to walk across to Sekiyado, 10 ri, and then take boat, and sail down the Tonegawa; leaving Sekiyado at night, one is at Yedo in the morning. Another route for those wishing to visit the shrines of Kashima and Katori is to return to Hôjô and thence to Tsuchiura, 4 ri, on the Mitokaidô, at the head of the fresh water lake of Kasumigaura. Tsuchiura is a large place of 2,000 houses and a castle town. Leaving here in boat it takes the day to get across the Lake to Ushibori, 10 ri, thence down a channel connecting the Kasamigaura lake with the Nishiura lake past the large village of Itako. The Kasumigaura is about 10 ri in length and 7 in width; the shores are well wooded but very flat, and one can readily believe that the lake was once of much greater extent. There are 16 islands in it, the largest of which is Ukishima. The Nishiura lake is only 1 ri across; it runs up a long way into Mito. Crossing it one lands at the little village of Ofunatsu in the island of Kashima, or Deer Island, 14 ri from Tsuchiura. Kashima cannot strictly speaking be called an island. On the north it is separated from the mainland by a river. It is a spit of land, 13 ri in length, and 1 in breadth, separating the sea from the Lake of Nishiura and ending at the mouth of the Tonegawa opposite Chôshi. The shrine is a mile from the village of Ofunatsu and situated in the middle of a forest. The god of Kashima is Take-mika-dzuchi no mikoto who is descended from a god originating from the blood which fell from the