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The Manila East Road, also known as National Road and National Highway, is a two-to-four lane primary and secondary highway connecting Metro Manila to the provinces of Rizal and Laguna in the Philippines.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Since 2014, the entire road is a part of the series of national highways by the Department of Public Works and Highways. It is a component of National Route 60 from Pasig to Cainta, National Route 601 (N601) from Cainta to Famy, while the segment from Famy to Pagsanjan is a component of National Route 66 (N66).

Manila East Road starts in barangay Rosario, Pasig as Ortigas Avenue at its intersection with Dr. Sixto Antonio Avenue. It then enters the province of Rizal at Cainta, where it turns south at Cainta Junction towards the poblacion. It enters Taytay, where it meets Taytay Diversion Road near the marketplace. It will then follow a route that circumscribes Laguna de Bay, passing through the coastal municipalities of Angono, Binangonan, Cardona, Morong, Baras, Tanay, and Pililla in Rizal. It then climbs through a mountainous terrain and enters the province of Laguna, traversing the municipalities of Mabitac, Famy, Siniloan, Pangil, Pakil, Paete, Kalayaan, Lumban, and Pagsanjan.^[1]

Alternative names

Manila East Road is also known as National Road or National Highway. Its section from Rosario, Pasig to Cainta Junction is also known as Rosario–Cainta Road and a part of Ortigas Avenue Extension, while its section from Tanay to Pililla is also known as Tanay–Pililla Road and its section from Mabitac to Famy is also known as Mabitac–Famy Road.^[6] Its section designated as N602, from Famy to Pagsanjan, forms part of Calamba–Santa Cruz–Famy Junction Road.

The highway is also locally known as the following within respective poblacions:^[1]

• Bonifacio Avenue in Cainta
• Rizal Avenue in Taytay
• M.L. Quezon Avenue in Angono
• Baltazar Street and J.P. Rizal Avenue in Binangonan
• San Pedro Street and Rizal Street in Cardona
• T. Claudio Street in Baras
• J.P. Rizal Street in Baras and Pililla
• M.H. Del Pilar Street and F.T. Catapusan Street in Tanay
• G. Paz Street, M.L. Quezon Street, and M.A. Roxas Street in Pililla
• Gen. Taiño Street in Pagsanjan

The highway used to start in or near Manila and took the present-day alignment of J.P. Rizal Avenue in Makati and Taguig (formerly part of Rizal), branching off from Santa Ana, Manila.^[7][8] Its alignment was later passed north of the Pasig River to the present-day P. Sanchez Street in Santa Mesa, Manila, and Shaw Boulevard from Mandaluyong to Pasig (the then-capital of Rizal).^[9] It was also designated as part of Highway 21 that linked the city of Manila with the provinces of Rizal and Laguna to the east, especially during the American colonial era.^[10][11] In the 1930s, its Laguna segment formed part of the Calamba–Santa Cruz–Rizal Boundary Road, while the rest of the section in Rizal was already officially known as the Manila East Road.^[12]

In 2025, the eastern section of the Manila East Road from Famy to Pagsanjan, initially N602, was upgraded from secondary to primary national road as part of N66.^[13] However, N602 still exists as a remnant at the Famy Junction, serving as a right-turn slot into the eastbound direction.^[1]

This is from its western end in Pasig to the eastern end in Pagsanjan.