Illustration: A broad packed-earth highway passes through a Japanese post town and continues between fields toward distant wooded hills. Travelers in straw sandals move in both directions alongside laden packhorses, while a porter adjusts his carrying pole outside a roadside inn.

JLPT N1nounLevel estimated by Bebop

街かい道どう

kaidou

main road, historic highway

Example sentences

  1. 街道かいどう沿ぞいのドライブインで昼食ちゅうしょくをとった。

    We had lunch at a roadside restaurant.

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  2. 街道かいどうは次つぎの村むらで南みなみへ向むかう。

    The road tends to the south at the next village.

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  3. 街道かいどう沿ぞいに家いえが並ならんでいた。

    Houses were lined up alongside the highway.

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Kanji in 街道

  • 街boulevard; streetOnガイ・カイKunまち
  • 道road-way; streetOnドウ・トウKunみち・いう

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