Uchi-Kyoguchimon Gate 内京口門

Official explanation

The name of the gate that once stood here means “inner Kyoto passage,” and a road connected it to a second gate—known as the “outer Kyoto passage”—on the eastern border of Himeji’s outer castle town. During the Edo period (1603–1867), the road that passed through here connected to the Saikoku Kaido, a major route linking the imperial capital of Kyoto to the western end of Honshu.

Uchi-Kyoguchimon Gate was the exit and re-entry point for the daimyo lord’s processions when he traveled to and from his residence in the capital of Edo (sankin kotai). People would line the route to the gate to see the lord and his vassals off, and again to greet them when they returned.

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Uchi-Kyoguchimon Gate consisted of two south-facing gateways separated by an inner courtyard. The moat in front of the gate was restored in the 1990s.

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