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The Five Routes (五街道 Gokaidō) were the five major roads leading to and from Edo (now Tokyo) during the Tokugawa period, the most important of which was the Tokaido which linked Edo and Kyoto. They were established in the era of Tokugawa Ietsuna, the 4th shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate. DRAM is a type of random access memory that stores each bit of data in a separate capacitor. ... Tokyo (東京; Tōkyō  listen, literally eastern capital), is located in the Kanto region on the island of Honshu in Japan. ... History of Japan Paleolithic Jomon Yayoi Yamato period ---Kofun period ---Asuka period Nara period Heian period Kamakura period Muromachi period Azuchi-Momoyama period ---Nanban period Edo period Meiji period Taisho period Showa period ---Japanese expansionism ---Occupied Japan ---Post-Occupation Japan Heisei The Edo period (江戸時代) is a division of Japanese... Tōkaidō (東海道) (literally, East Sea Route) is the name of several things: National Route 1, which links Tokyo and Osaka; The Tokaido Main Line, which links Tokyo and Kobe; One of the Edo Five Routes, which linked Edo (now Tokyo) and Kyoto along the shore (see below); and An ancient... Location of Kyoto, on the main island of Japan Kyoto (Japanese: 京都市; Kyōto-shi) is a city in Japan that has a population of 1. ... Tokugawa Ietsuna (徳川 家綱; 1639–1680) was the fourth shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan who was in office from 1651 to 1680. ... This page is about the Japanese ruler and military rank. ... The Tokugawa shogunate or Tokugawa bakufu (徳川幕府) (also known as the Edo bakufu) was a feudal military dictatorship of Japan established in 1603 by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family until 1868. ...


The Five Routes were:

  • Tokaido (東海道) to Kyoto along the coastline
  • Nakasendo (中山道) to Kyoto through the mountains
  • Koshu Kaido (甲州街道) to Kofu
  • Oshu Kaido (奥州街道) to Shirakawa and other places of northen Japan
  • Nikko Kaido (日光街道) to Nikko

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