Ōme-kaidō Avenue

Ōme-kaidō Avenue (青梅街道) is one of the main roads leading westwards out of Tokyo. It begins in Shinjuku Ward, passes through the city of Ōme, and ends in the city of Kōfu, in Yamanashi Prefecture.

The road was originally developed in 1606 to transport lime from Ōme during the land reclamation efforts in Edo during the Tokugawa era and was known by different names in different eras and regions over the course of time, as "Ogawa-michi" and "Hakonegasaki-michi" in Edo, "Afume-michi" or "Mitake-michi" in Ōme, and "Haraedo-michi" in Hakonegasaki. It was identified as Ōme-kaidō on a survey map created in 1880 and formally designated as such in 1962.

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