Nijō Street (二条通 にじょうどおり Nijō dōri ) is a major street that crosses the center of the city of Kyoto from east to west, running for approximately 3.5 km from Shirakawa Street (east) to the Nijō Castle (west).
5-501: (Redirected from Nijo ) Nijō can refer to: Places [ edit ] Nijō Street ( 二条通 , Nijō-dori , "second street") , one of numbered east–west streets in the ancient capital of Heian-kyō (present-day Kyoto, Japan) Nijō Castle , a castle in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto Nijō Station (Kyoto) , a train station in Nakagyō-ku, Kyoto Nijō, Fukuoka ( 二丈町 , Nijō-machi ) ,
10-499: A drugstore district with the approval of the Tokugawa shogunate and to this day some of these businesses still remain in the area. From 1895 to 1926, a tram operated by the former Kyoto Electric Railway ran on the street, between Teramachi Street and Jingū Michi Street. Nowadays the section west of Teramachi Street becomes a narrow one-way road. An important number of cultural, art and education related institutions are located in
15-714: A former town in Fukuoka Prefecture , Japan People [ edit ] Emperor Nijō (1143–1165), 78th emperor of Japan Nijō family , one of the five regent houses ( go-sekke ) Nijō Tameuji (1222–1286), also known as Fujiwara no Tameuji, poet and founder of: Nijō poetic school , a conservative school of Japanese waka (poetry) Lady Nijō (1258–c. 1307), Japanese writer, author of The Confessions of Lady Nijo v t e Numbered jō Ichijō Nijō Sanjō Shijō Gojō Rokujō Shichijō Hachijō Kujō Jūjō Topics referred to by
20-595: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Nij%C5%8D Street Current day Nijō Street corresponds to the Nijō Ōji of the Heian-kyō , which according to records had a total wide of 51 meters (actual road section 43.8 meters wide), being the second widest road of the time, after the Suzaku Avenue . During the Edo period it was
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