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The kai-to, sometimes kaito or kaido (Chinese: 街渡; Jyutping: gaai1 dou2; pinyin: Jiēdù) is a type of small, motorised ferry that operates in Hong Kong. They are usually used to serve remote coastal settlements in the territory's outlying islands .
Kaidō figure prominently in Japanese culture.The poet Matsuo Bashō memorialized his travels along the Ōshū Kaidō (and elsewhere) in the book Oku no Hosomichi.A set of woodblock prints by Hiroshige forms a travelogue of the Tōkaidō.
The title page for the series of ukiyo-e prints.. The Sixty-nine Stations of the Kisokaidō (木曾街道六十九次, Kisokaidō Rokujūkyū-tsugi) or Sixty-nine Stations of the Kiso Road, is a series of ukiyo-e works created by Utagawa Hiroshige and Keisai Eisen.
Kaido Höövelson (known professionally as Baruto Kaito 把瑠都 凱斗; born 5 November 1984) is an Estonian politician and former professional sumo wrestler. [2] Making his debut in May 2004, he reached the top division after just two years in sumo in May 2006.
The Gokaidō. The Five Routes (五街道, Gokaidō), sometimes translated as "Five Highways", were the five centrally administered routes, or kaidō, that connected the de facto capital of Japan at Edo (now Tokyo) with the outer provinces during the Edo period (1603–1868). [1]
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Green line: Shimanami Kaido The Akinada Tobishima Kaidō ( 安芸灘とびしま海道 ) , officially the Akinada Islands Link Bridges ( 安芸灘諸島連絡架橋 , Akinada-shotō-renraku-kakyō ) , is a road connecting Kure, Hiroshima to seven of the Geiyo Islands in the Seto Inland Sea , Japan.
The Five Routes. The Kōshū Kaidō (甲州街道) was one of the five routes or major highways of the Edo period.It was built to connect Edo (modern-day Tokyo) with Kai Province in modern-day Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.