There are two roads that were called 'Yoko-oji Road': one is the road that ran near Fujiwara-kyo in the south of the Nara Basin, and the other is the road than ran from the Horyu-ji Temple area to present-day Ichinomoto in Tenri City.
「横大路」と呼ばれた道は、奈良盆地南部の藤原京付近を通っていた道と法隆寺付近から現在の天理市櫟本付近までの道の二つがある。