Shirakabe, Chikaramachi and Shumoku (白壁・主税・橦木町並み保存地区) 白壁・主税・橦木町並み保存地区

Fourteen hectares of boundary walls and pre-war villas behind Nagoya Castle.

In the Edo period the houses of middle-ranking samurai stood east of Nagoya Castle, and the plot layout of that time can still be recognised in the streets. After 1868 the district took up a new trade: the road to Seto, the city of porcelain, was easy to reach from here, and Shirakabe became the centre of the pottery trade. Between the nineteen-tens and the nineteen-thirties export merchants and leading names in local industry moved here and built fine houses, some Japanese and others Western-style, often both in the same building. In May 1985 the municipality protected 14.3 hectares as a townscape preservation district, along the three axes of Shirakabe, Chikaramachi and Shumoku. The municipality calls the wider corridor that runs from the castle to the Tokugawa Garden, and takes in this district, ‘the Cultural Path’.

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