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The was originally an old Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese geographical region that made up the gokishichido
Gokishichido

was the name for ancient administrative units organized in Japan during the Asuka Period , as part of a Ritsuryo borrowed from the Chinese. Though these units did not survive as administrative structures beyond the Muromachi Period , they did remain important geographical entities up until the 19th century....
 system and was situated along the southeastern edge of Honshu
Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, its name literally means 'Eastern Sea Way'.

The term also refers to a series of roads that connected the capitals (?? kokufu) of each of the provinces that made up the region. The fifteen ancient provinces of the region include the following:



In the Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
, the was demonstrably the most important in Japan; and this marked prominence continued after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
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The was originally an old Japan
Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, People's Republic of China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south....
ese geographical region that made up the gokishichido
Gokishichido

was the name for ancient administrative units organized in Japan during the Asuka Period , as part of a Ritsuryo borrowed from the Chinese. Though these units did not survive as administrative structures beyond the Muromachi Period , they did remain important geographical entities up until the 19th century....
 system and was situated along the southeastern edge of Honshu
Honshu

or Honshu is the largest island of Japan. The nation's main island, it is south of Hokkaido across the Tsugaru Strait, north of Shikoku across the Inland Sea, and northeast of Kyushu across the Kanmon Strait....
, its name literally means 'Eastern Sea Way'.

The term also refers to a series of roads that connected the capitals (?? kokufu) of each of the provinces that made up the region. The fifteen ancient provinces of the region include the following:

  • Iga Province
    Iga Province

    was an old provinces of Japan of Japan in the area that is today western Mie Prefecture. Iga bordered on Ise Province, Omi Province, Yamato Province, and Yamashiro Province provinces....
  • Ise Province
    Ise Province

    or Seishu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan including most of modern Mie Prefecture. Ise bordered Iga Province, Kii Province, Mino Province, Omi Province, Owari Province, Shima Province, and Yamato Provinces....
  • Shima Province
    Shima Province

    Shima or Shishu was a Provinces of Japan of Japan which consisted of a peninsula in the southeastern part of modern Mie Prefecture. Part of the Tokaido , Shima bordered Ise Province, and was the smallest of the provinces....
  • Owari Province
    Owari Province

    was an old Provinces of Japan of Japan that is now the western half of present day Aichi Prefecture, including much of modern Nagoya. Its abbreviation is Bishu ....
  • Mikawa Province
    Mikawa Province

    is an old provinces of Japan in the area that today forms the eastern half of Aichi Prefecture. Mikawa bordered on Owari province, Mino province, Shinano province, and Totomi Province provinces....
  • Totomi Province
    Totomi Province

    is a former Provinces of Japan in the area of Japan that is today western Shizuoka prefecture.Totomi's ancient castle town was near modern Iwata, Shizuoka, but by the Sengoku period, the chief castle town was at Hamamatsu, Shizuoka....
  • Suruga Province
    Suruga Province

    was an old provinces of Japan in the area that is today the eastern part of Shizuoka prefecture. Suruga bordered on Izu province, Kai province, Sagami province, Shinano province, and Totomi Province provinces; and had access to the Pacific Ocean through Suruga Bay....
  • Kai Province
    Kai Province

    is an old provinces of Japan in Japan that corresponds to Yamanashi Prefecture today. It lies in central Honshu, west of Tokyo, in a landlocked mountainous region that includes Mount Fuji along its border with Shizuoka Prefecture....
  • Izu Province
    Izu Province

    Izu was a Provinces of Japan including the Izu Peninsula that is today part of Shizuoka prefecture and the Izu Islands that are now part of Tokyo....
  • Sagami Province
    Sagami Province

    was an old provinces of Japan. It occupied most of the area that is today Kanagawa prefecture, but present-day Yokohama and Kawasaki, Kanagawa, now part of Kanagawa Prefecture, were not in Sagami....
  • Musashi Province
    Musashi Province

    was a Provinces of Japan of Japan, which today comprises Tokyo, most of Saitama Prefecture and part of Kanagawa Prefecture, mainly Kawasaki, Kanagawa and Yokohama....
  • Awa Province
    Awa Province (Chiba)

    was an old provinces of Japan of Japan which is today a part of Chiba Prefecture. Awa Province was bordered by Kazusa Province. It lies on the tip of the Boso Peninsula , whose name takes its first kanji from the name of Awa Province and its second from Kazusa and Shimousa Province provinces....
  • Kazusa Province
    Kazusa Province

    Kazusa was an Provinces of Japan in the area of the Boso Peninsula of Honshu that is today the central part of Chiba prefecture. Kazusa bordered on Awa Province and Shimousa Provinces....
  • Shimousa Province
    Shimousa Province

    was a Provinces of Japan located in and around the northern part of modern Chiba Prefecture, eastern Saitama Prefecture, eastern Tokyo , and northwestern Ibaraki Prefecture....
  • Hitachi Province
    Hitachi Province

    Hitachi was an old provinces of Japan of Japan which bordered on Iwashiro province, Iwaki province, Shimousa province, and Shimotsuke provinces....


In the Edo period
Edo period

The , or , is a division of History of Japan running from 1603 to 1868. The period marks the governance of the Edo or Tokugawa shogunate, which was officially established in 1603 by the first Edo shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu....
, the was demonstrably the most important in Japan; and this marked prominence continued after the fall of the Tokugawa shogunate
Tokugawa shogunate

The Tokugawa shogunate, also known as the , and the , was a feudalism regime of Japan established by Tokugawa Ieyasu and ruled by the shoguns of the Tokugawa family....
. In the early Meiji period
Meiji period

The , or Meiji era, denotes the 45-year reign of the Meiji Emperor, running, in the Gregorian calendar, from 23 October 1868 to 30 July 1912. During this time, Japan started its modernization and rose to world power status....
, this region's eastern route was the one chosen for stringing the telegraph lines which connected the old capital city of Kyoto with the new "eastern capital" at Tokyo.

In the modern, post-Pacific War
Pacific War

The Pacific War was the part of World War II?and preceding conflicts?that took place in the Pacific Ocean, its islands, and in East Asia, between July 7, 1937 and August 14, 1945....
 period, all measures show the Tokaido region increasing in its dominance as the primary center of population and employment.