Meaning
街道 (かいどう, kaidou) is a JLPT N1 vocabulary word meaning “highway”.
Kanji in this word
Example sentences 12
街道沿いにお土産店が並んでいた
The souvenir shops were lined up along the highway.
街道沿いに家が並んでいた。
Houses were lined up alongside the highway.
街道は次の村で南へ向かう。
The road tends to the south at the next village.
近世では上街道と呼ばれた。
In the early modern period, it was called the Kami-kaido.
西の末端部は山陰街道である。
Its western end is Sanin-kaido Road.
休日で車は街道をのろのろと動いた。
The holiday traffic crawled along the highway.
街道や水運の要所などの付近に築いた。
It was built near strategic points such as highways and waterways.
街道沿いのドライブインで昼食をとった。
We had lunch at a roadside restaurant.
古来より鯖街道と呼ばれる海産物の運送ルートが何本も走っていた。
From ancient times, many routes for transporting marine products to Kyoto, called Saba Kaido (mackerel roads), existed.
行列が通る街道は、前もって入念な道普請が命ぜられ、農繁期であっても田植えは禁止された。
Elaborate road repairs were ordered in advance for the streets the procession would pass, and rice planting was prohibited even during the busy farming season.
北は丸太町通から南は高倉陸橋（竹田街道と接続）までだが、途中、渉成園により中断している。
It runs from Marutamachi-dori Street in the north to the Takakura Rikkyo overpass (connected with the Takeda-kaido Road), but is interrupted halfway by Shoseien.
髭茶屋追分からは京都を通らず大津宿と伏見宿、大坂を直接つなぐ伏見街道（大津街道）が山科盆地を南へ走っていた。
The Fushimi Kaido Road (Otsu Kaido Road)--a route extending from Higechaya-oiwake and connecting the Otsu-juku Station and Fushimi-juku Station as well as Osaka without passing through Kyoto--ran south of Yamashina Basin.