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The sandō at Fushimi Inari Taisha in Kyoto. A sandō (参道, visiting path) in Japanese architecture is the road approaching either a Shinto shrine or a Buddhist temple. [1] Its point of origin is usually straddled in the first case by a Shinto torii, in the second by a Buddhist sanmon, gates which mark the beginning of the shrine's or temple territory.
Road transport is an essential element of the Japanese transport network, and vital part of the Japanese economy. Japan's history of having human-made roads ranging from the present to the Jōmon period. The Gokishichidō of the Asuka period and the Edo period kaidō both figured into the government's attempts to centralize their authority.
Sannenzaka, or Sannen-zaka (三年坂), is a stone-paved pedestrian road and tourist attraction in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Japan.The road is lined with traditional buildings and shops, and is often paired with the similar road, Ninenzaka.
The Japanese government also invited foreign architects to both work in Japan and teach new Japanese architects. One of these, the British architect Josiah Conder went on to train many of the most prominent of the Japanese Meiji era architects, including Kingo Tatsuno, Tatsuzō Sone and Tokuma Katayama.
The Tōkaidō road, linking the shōgun ' s capital, Edo, to the imperial one, Kyōto, was the main travel and transport artery of old Japan. It is also the most important of the " Five Roads " ( Gokaidō )—the five major roads of Japan created or developed during the Edo period to further strengthen the control of the central shogunate ...
Kaidō (街道, 'road') were roads in Japan dating from the Edo period. [1] They played important roles in transportation like the Appian Way of ancient Roman roads. Major examples include the Edo Five Routes, all of which started at Edo (modern-day Tokyo). Minor examples include sub-routes such as the Hokuriku Kaidō and the Nagasaki Kaidō.
Original ishidatami (stone paving) on the Nakasendō The Five Routes. The Nakasendō (中山道, Central Mountain Route), also called the Kisokaidō (木曾街道), [1] was one of the centrally administered five routes of the Edo period, and one of the two that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (modern-day Tokyo) to Kyoto.
Roads In Japan, from Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT) Archived 28 May 2005 at the Wayback Machine - English and Japanese website, the link refer specifically to 5 PDF chapters - as well as a reference chapter - on road history, statistics, maps, construction and advanced road technologies in Japan (graphics ...