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as the gateway to Kyushu, and as a transport hub. Kitakyushu is the starting point for Kyushu's railway and road network. In the Edo period, Kitakyushu was the northern terminus of the Nagasaki Kaido, a highway linking Nagasaki, the only port in Japan open to foreign trade under the policy of sakoku, with Honshu. During the Meiji period, railways were constructed from

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