is one of the main roads leading westwards out of

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Shinjuku is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is a major commercial and administrative centre, housing the northern half of the busiest railway station in the world ( Shinjuku Station) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building, the administration ...

, passes through Ōme, and ends in

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. kimamanikaidouaruki. Accessed April 29, 2020. Ōme Kaidō highway in Asagaya, Tokyo

Stations of the Ōme Kaidō

There are 9 post stations along the Ōme Kaidō. They are listed below with the corresponding modern-day municipality listed in

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. * Nakano-juku（ Nakano,

） * Tanashi-juku（

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, Nishitama District, Tokyo） * Ōme-juku（ Ōme, Tokyo） * Hikawa-shuku（ Okutama, Nishitama District, Tokyo） * Taba-shuku（

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, Kitatsuru District, Yamanashi） * Enzan-juku（ Kōshū, Yamanashi) * Kobara-juku（ Yamanashi, Yamanashi)

Itsukaichi Kaidō is the historic and current main road between former Itsukaichi (now Akiruno) and Suginami in Tokyo's central suburbs.Edo Five Routes The , sometimes translated as "Five Highways", were the five centrally administered routes, or ''kaidō'', that connected the ''de facto'' capital of Japan at Edo (now Tokyo) with the outer provinces during the Edo period (1603–1868). The most ...

** Tōkaidō (or

53 Stations of the Tōkaidō The are the rest areas along the Tōkaidō, which was a coastal route that ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto.. There were originally 53 government post stations along the Tōkaidō, where travelers ...

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Nakasendō The , also called the ,Richard Lane, ''Images from the Floating World'' (1978) Chartwell, Secaucus ; pg. 285 was one of the five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto in Japan. There were 69 ...

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69 Stations of the Nakasendō The are the rest areas along the Nakasendō, which ran from Nihonbashi in Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Sanjō Ōhashi in Kyoto.Yama to Keikoku Publishing (2006). Nakasendō o Aruku (Revised ed.). Osaka: Yama to Keikoku Publishing. .Ōshū Kaidō The was one of the five routes of the Edo period. It was built to connect Edo (modern-day Tokyo) with Mutsu Province and the present-day city of Shirakawa, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. It was established by Tokugawa Ieyasu for government offic ...

Nikkō Kaidō The was one of the five routes of the Edo period and it was built to connect Edo (modern-day Tokyo) with the temple-shrine complex of the Mangan-ji and Tōshōsha (now called the Rinnō-ji and Tōshōgū), which are located in the present-day ...

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Stations of the Ōme Kaidō

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