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Edo River

The Edo River (?????????, Edo-gawa) is a river in the Kant?? region of Japan. It splits from the Tone River at the northernmost tip of Noda City in the Sekiyado district, crosses through Nagareyama and Matsudo, and empties into Tokyo Bay at Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture. The Edo forms the borders between Tokyo, Chiba, and Saitama prefectures. The Edo River is 59.5 kilometres (37.0 mi) long. The course of the Edo River was originally the lower course of the Tone River. The Tone was diverted in 1654 by the Tokugawa shogunate to protect the city of Edo from flooding. The Edo was used to connect the north and east of the Kant?? region to the capital at Edo, specifically to transport large amounts of cargo from Ch??shi and other cities on the Pacific Ocean coast inland to the capital. Before the industrialization of the Tokyo region the river...

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