The roads which ran from Edo to Sendai along the Pacific coast were called 'Rikuzenhama-kaido Road,' and among them the one which ran to Mito City, where one of three privileged branches of Tokugawa family was located, was occasionally called 'Mito-kaido Road.' 
江戸から仙台まで太平洋岸をたどる街道を総称して「陸前浜街道」といい、うち徳川御三家のひとつが置かれていた水戸市までを「水戸街道」と呼ぶ場合がある。