 They ended at the Shinto gate (torii) at the entrance of Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū in Kamakura.Like the other routes, these roads were built to allow quick army movements from and to Kamakura and were of great importance during the many internal wars of the period.The "Kami no Michi", in particular, was used by Nitta Yoshisada for his 1333 attack on Kamakura, and all the battlefields of that campaign (for example the battles of and , both in today's Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture, or in today's Fuchū) are therefore along its course.