Uda-Matsuyama

photo by Asturio Cantabrio · CC BY-SA 4.0

photo by 663highland · CC BY 2.5

Castle town of the Akiyama clan, designated a protected district on 5 July 2006.

You walk among white-plastered houses lined up over 17 hectares, squeezed between the castle hill and the Uda River: Uda-Matsuyama began as a castle town of the Akiyama clan in the Sengoku period, the era of the ‘warring states’ (fifteenth–sixteenth century), and later became a commercial centre. The district was designated a protected heritage site on 5 July 2006.

Uda-Matsuyama began as a castle town under the Akiyama clan in the Sengoku period and later developed as a commercial centre. The historic district, 17 hectares of white-plastered houses between the castle hill and the Uda River, was designated an Important Preservation District for Groups of Traditional Buildings (重要伝統的建造物群保存地区) on 5 July 2006.

🚉 大宇陀(ouda) · in front of the station

Sources: city.uda.lg.jp

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