Higashiyama Yuhodo is a promenade at the foot of the mountain located east of the Takayama city area. If you walk along, you may find many temples and shrines lined up there. This area was built as a part of castle town when the war lord named Nagachika Kanamori entered Hida in 1586.
Construction of castles and development of castle towns
The war lord, Kanamori Nagachika, started to build a castle on Mt. Shiroyama and samurai mansions on the hill surrounding the castle. He also placed temples at the foot of the mountain and develop the castle town which is nowadays known as Sanmachi street.
After Takayama came to be under direct control of Tokugawa shogunate, the castle and samurai mansions were dismantled but the temples and town remained there. The land divisions and roads in the center of Takayama City remain in the same shape as they were almost 400 years ago.