“Kuribashi” means “9 villages bridge”.

The name of this bridge is　“Kuribashi”. “Kuri” means “9 villages”. People in old times named the bridge “Kuribashi”, according to the distance from both Kakegawa and Hamamatsu.

“The village” is unit of length in Japanese traditional measures. They are equivalent to 3.9km in approximately.

But it is difficult to measure it directly because “1 village” is long distance. Therefore they came to call the distance that walked in that time from rough time to take to walk from the starting point to the next.

“Kuribashi” is the starting point of the front approach to Akihasan.