Minoji

Japanese: 美濃路 - みのじ

A road connecting Atsuta on the Tokaido and Tarui on the Nakasendo. It branches off from the Tokaido at Miyano-juku in Atsuta Ward, Nagoya City, and passes through Kiyosu, Inaba (Inazawa City), Hagiwara (Ichinomiya City), Okoshi (Bisai City), Sunomata (Gifu Prefecture), and Ogaki (Gifu Prefecture) before reaching Tarui on the Nakasendo. It is a side road of 14 ri 24 cho (57.5 km) long. There was a ferry from Miyano-juku to Kuwana on the Tokaido, but people and children who did not like to travel by sea, and large processions (such as alternate attendance, Ryukyu king's envoys, and Korean envoys) used the Mino-ji, which was flat and closer, and was therefore more crowded than the main road. It was also called the Auspicious Years Road, after Tokugawa Ieyasu's triumphant return and the unification of Japan, and was also called the Tokaido Mino-ji Route and the Nakasendo Owari Route. It was also written as Mino Kaido, and was also known by other names such as Omiji, Oki Kaido, and Suminomata Kaido. Along this road were rows of pine trees, mileposts, and a post station system, and even today the townscape of Tomita in Bisai City, Hagiwara, and Oki retain the atmosphere of a post station.

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Japanese:

東海道の熱田と中山道の垂井を結ぶ道路。名古屋市熱田区の宮の宿で東海道と分岐し，清州，稲葉 (稲沢市) ，萩原 (一宮市) ，起 (おこし。尾西市) ，墨俣 (すのまた。岐阜県) ，大垣 (岐阜県) の各宿を経て，中山道の垂井の宿に達する 14里 24町 (57.5km) の脇街道。東海道には宮の宿から桑名までの海上七里の渡しがあったが，船旅を嫌う人々や子供，または大部隊の行列 (参勤交替，琉球王使，朝鮮来聘使など) は，平坦地で距離的にも近い美濃路を利用したため本街道以上ににぎわった。徳川家康凱旋と天下統一にちなんで吉例街道ともいわれ，また東海道美濃路回り，中山道尾張回りとも呼ばれた。美濃街道とも表記し，また別名に近江路，起街道，墨俣街道があった。本街道並みに松並木，一里塚，宿駅制度が設けられ，いまも尾西市富田の一里塚や萩原，起などの町並みに宿場の面影を残している。

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