At that time, a tourist took a rickshaw (a taxi-like vehicle pulled by a man) from Kyoto, crossed the Oi no saka toge path, passed Shinocho-oji and the Hozu-gawa River at the Kameoka basin, and embarked on a boat at Yamamoto-hama (the neighborhood of the present Kameoka Torokko Station), which was the entrance to the Hozukyo Gorge.
当時は、京都から人力車にのって老の坂を越え、篠町王子を経て保津川の亀岡盆地から保津峡への入り口にあたる山本浜（現在のトロッコ亀岡駅辺り）から乗船した。