Most of Maguchi (the length of the front facade of a building or frontage of a plot of land from corner to corner) in such Machiya were used by shops, and thereby a long and narrow garden called Toriniwa (unfloored walkway) was developed and then 'Roji,' a passage leading to the tea room was separately created.
こうした町屋では間口のほとんどを店舗にとられていたため、「通り庭」と呼ばれる細長い庭園が発達していたが、さらに茶室へと繋がる通路、「路地」が別に作られるようになった。