Owari is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.

For example, the Japanese N700 Series Shinkansen may tilt up to one degree on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, allowing the trains to maintain even on radius curves that previously had a maximum speed of.

Based in Suruga Province, he was one of the three daimyo that dominated the Tōkaidō region.

* Tōkaidō ( road ), one of the Five Routes of Japan during the Edo period

In the Edo period, Mishima prospered from its location on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto, and Mishima-shuku was one of the 53 post stations on that road.

During the Edo period, the area prospered as Chiryū-juku, one of the post stations on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto.

is one of the three train services running on the Tōkaidō / Sanyō Shinkansen.

Mikawa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.

During the Edo period, Nagoya Castle was the center of one of the most important castle towns in Japan — Nagoya-juku — and it included the most important stops along the Minoji, which linked the Tōkaidō with the Nakasendō.

Through tracks 5 to 9 on two island platforms and one side of a terminal platform, lead only to storage tracks near Akihabara Station for empty trains, but will in future continue on the Tōhoku Jūkan Line to Tokyo Station and beyond on the Tōkaidō Main Line.

Shimbashi is the original terminus of Japan's first stretch of railway, the Tōkaidō Main Line, and is one of Japan's oldest stations ( the oldest station being Shinagawa, a few kilometres down the line ).

Awa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.

Kazusa was classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.

Shimōsa is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.

The Tōkaidō Main Line and Itō Line share one side platform and two island platforms with five tracks connected by an underpass to the station building.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen with two opposing side platforms is one level higher, and is connected to the non-express platforms by an underpass.

One came from the mountains, one from the north, and the third, commanded by Yoshitoki's son Yasutoki, approached via the Tōkaidō road.

The Tōkaidō ( road ) was one of the five routes, but the others were not.

One of old Japan's most important ancient roadways, the Tōkaidō, ran through it connecting Tokyo ( at that time called Edo ) and Kyoto, the old imperial capital.

The Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto passed through what is now Chigasaki, but without a post station.

The Yoshiwara was created in the city of Edo, located near what is today known as Nihonbashi, near the start of the busy Tōkaidō that leads to western Kyoto in western Japan.

Hiratsuka was retained as tenryō territory after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, and flourished as Hiratsuka-juku, a post town on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto.

With the Edo period, Fujisawa prospered as Fujisawa-shuku, a post station on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

Numazu prospered in the Edo period from its location on the Tōkaidō, with Numazu-juku and Hara-juku as two of the 53 post stations.

In the Edo period, Kanaya-juku and Shimada-juku developed as post towns on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

In the Edo period, the Tōkaidō passed through the area that is now Fuji, with a post station at Yoshiwara-juku.

The area prospered during the Edo period, as the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto passed through Kakegawa, whose post stations included Nissaka-shuku and Kakegawa-juku.

The town also developed as Fujieda-juku, a post town on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

During the Edo period, it was tenryō territory under direct control of the Tokugawa shogunate, and prospered as Fukuroi-juku on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

During the Edo period, Kosai was tenryō territory administered directly by the Tokugawa shogunate, and the location of a barrier gate regulating traffic on the old Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto.

The town prospered as a post station on the Tōkaidō connecting Edo with Kyoto.

The area prospered during the Edo period with two post towns along the Tōkaidō, Goyu-shuku and Akasaka.

The area prospered as a fishing port, and due to its location on the Tōkaidō highway connecting Edo with Kyoto, although the town itself suffered considerable damage due to a tsunami in the 1707 Hōei earthquake.

During the Edo period, Inaba and Ozawa villages formed a post town on the Minoji, a kaidō connecting Miya-juku ( Atsuta on the Tōkaidō to Tarui-juku ( Mino Province ) on the Nakasendō.

Shippers managed ships to and from Osaka ( known as tarubune ) and other cities, bringing goods into the city or transferring them from sea routes to river barges or land routes such as the Tōkaidō ( which began there ).

The Tōkaidō Line's rapid success prompted an extension westward to Hiroshima and Fukuoka ( the Sanyō Shinkansen ), which was completed in 1975.

After the start of the Meiji period, the Tōkaidō Main Line railway connected Chigasaki Station with Tokyo and Osaka in 1898, which spurred the development of the area.

Tōgō's first experience at war was at the age of 15 during the Bombardment of Kagoshima ( August 1863 ), in which Kagoshima was shelled by the Royal Navy to punish the Satsuma daimyo for the death of Charles Lennox Richardson on the Tōkaidō highway the previous year ( the Namamugi Incident ), and the Japanese refusal to pay an indemnity in compensation.

The term " Tōkaidō Main Line " is largely a holdover from pre-Shinkansen days ; now various portions of the line have different names which are officially used by JR East, JR Central, and JR West.

The trains were the first Shinkansen trainsets built to run on Japan's new Tōkaidō Shinkansen high-speed line which opened in Japan in 1964.

The 0 series ( which were not originally classified, as there was no need to distinguish classes of trainset until later ) entered service with the start of Tōkaidō Shinkansen operations in October 1964.

The was a Japanese Shinkansen high-speed train type which operated between 1984 and 2012 on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen and Sanyō Shinkansen high-speed lines.

The was a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen train type which was operated on the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen lines in Japan between 1992 and 2012.

16-car units are painted white with blue stripes beneath the windows, and are used for Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama services on the Tōkaidō and Sanyō Shinkansen lines, while 8-car units used for the Sanyō Shinkansen Hikari Rail Star services have a darker livery ( grey with black window areas and a yellow stripe beneath the windows ) which also acts to visually deemphasize the units ' nose area, resulting in a more streamlined impression.

However, the opening of the Tanna Tunnel on December 1, 1934 resulted in the route of Tōkaidō Main Line shifting south to Atami, leaving Gotemba on the spur Gotemba Line, which resulted in temporary depopulation.

Unlike the coastal Tōkaidō, the Nakasendō traveled inland, hence its name, which can be translated as " central mountain route " ( as opposed to the Tōkaidō, which roughly meant " eastern sea route ").

Aside from the main building on the north side of the station, the Hachijō-guchi building on the south side was built to house Tōkaidō Shinkansen which started operation in 1964.

The original capital of the province was located in what is now Iwata, and was named “ Mitsuke ” – a name which survived into modern times as Mitsuke-juku, a post station on the Tōkaidō.

The Izu peninsula is easily accessible from Tokyo and points west via the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which has stations in both Atami in the northeast and Mishima in the northwest.

Within a week of his arrival by way of China as a young student interpreter in the British Japan Consular Service, at age 19, the Namamugi Incident ( Namamugi Jiken ), in which a British merchant was killed on the Tōkaidō, took place on September 14, 1862.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen uses Tracks 5 and 6, which are served by a separate island platform.

Hamamatsu Station has a two island platforms serving Tracks 1-4 for the Tōkaidō Shinkansen, which are connected by an underpass a central concourse.

Major events include the annual Hakone Ekiden, a long distance foot race, held at the New Year, which runs from Tokyo to Hakone and back over two days, partly in commemoration of the Tōkaidō road.

In the Asuka period the Ōtaki region became part of Kazusa Province at the western end of the Tōkaidō region, which was formed as a result of the Taika Reform of 654.