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- Cost: 100
Description
Many steps complete a journey.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the eventual victor in the wars of the Sengoku Jidai, created five great roads all leading from Edo, his capital. The roads were, of course, a tool of control, as they allowed to his armies to move swiftly to crush any opposition to his rule. While this was a worthwhile reason for keeping them in use for 250 years, they soon became vital to internal trade. Over the decades, the Tokugawa Shogunate made sure that travel was controlled by a series of post stations along the roads' length. While travellers could rest, they were also carefully watched. The roads remained vital, even after the Meiji Restoration, and their paths had been chosen so well that the new-fangled railways came to follow much the same route!