Once it completed the downstream course, the boat would have been carried by hand back to Kameoka, but that’s no longer the case nowadays.

The finish line is the Togetsukyō Bridge in Arashiyama. What happens to the boat afterwards? Nowadays, it’s carried back upstream by truck, but in the Edo Period, it would have been manually dragged by burly men with ropes. You can see traces of the ropes nearby. They tried to revive the old transport method with 20 people, but in today’s age, they could not even budge the boat.