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Daimyocho-dori street was a way to come up to the castle from Ote-mon, i.e. the main gate through San-no-maru, i.e. the third site. Along it the houses of high class vassals were standing.
Their houses, which had large gardens with it, must have to be surrounded by trees and the tall mud-walls with tile-rooves. The trees and the walls hinder paseengers looking over the castle.
And the street ran obliquely wastwards against the castle. Thus people walking Daimyocho-dori could not see the main tower-complex.
Such an allocation of the street and the vassals' houses was
formed intentionally from the view point of military defence.
▲Avenue of linden trees is a symbol of the city
The street was, so to speak, a boulevard. But such a significance has weakend its position in the modern city.
Along it the parts keeping the traditional townscape and the modern buildings of the banks or the big corporations are mixed in rambling confusion.
But the rows of the linden-trees combine such incoherent pieces into a street-view.
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- Map made by commitee fpr cultural assets
- Usuful for town walking！
- defence concept of castle
- Allocation of moats
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