Most of the area of Ninna school district in the southwest part of Kamigyo Ward is a part of the former Juraku village, Nishinokyo village and Taishogun village of Kadono County, and the areas in these villages which had developed into towns from earlier times were integrated into Kamigyo in 1868.
区の南西部、仁和学区の区域は、大部分が旧葛野郡聚楽村、西ノ京村、大将軍村の各一部で、これらの村のうち早くから町地化していた区域が明治元年に上京に編入されたものである。