Kamishichiken let Shimonomori and Goban-cho use its chaya-kabu (license for 'teahouses,' or the red-light district), and prospered as a hanamachi around geisha in the Edo period; Toshizo HIJIKATA is rumored to have had a relationship with geisha and apprentice geisha in Kamishichiken at the end of the Edo period.
江戸期に下の森や五番町に茶屋株を貸し、芸妓中心の花街として発展し、江戸末期に土方歳三が上七軒の芸妓、舞妓を相手にした逸話があるが不明である。