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The following route descriptions are not meant to be detailed or to strictly follow Edo-period or earlier routes, but to allow someone with a modern map see how the roads went and what the major barriers were. The indication of the expressways is just to give the reader a general orientation, as those are usually easy to find on maps.

The following route descriptions are not meant to be detailed or to strictly follow Edo-period or earlier routes, but to allow someone with a modern map see how the roads went and what the major barriers were. The indication of the expressways is just to give the reader a general orientation, as those are usually easy to find on maps.

===(The "Five Highways")===

===The "Five Highways"===

The following Five Highways 五街道 of the[[ Edo Period]] started at [[Nihonbashi]] in [[Edo]] (modern Tokyo). Before the Edo Period, the ending point was not so clear, but at least was in the  [[Kanto|Kantô Plain]]; prior to the construction of Nihonbashi, the Tôkaidô began in Kyoto.

The following Five Highways, or ''Gokaidô'' 五街道 of the [[Edo Period]] started at [[Nihonbashi]] in [[Edo]] (modern Tokyo). Before the Edo Period, the ending point was not so clear, but at least was in the  [[Kanto|Kantô Plain]]; prior to the construction of Nihonbashi, the Tôkaidô began in Kyoto.

===[[Tokaido|Tôkaidô Highway]]東海道===

===[[Tokaido|Tôkaidô Highway]]東海道===