In the late Edo period, the town started to decline due to the oppressive tax, and as it opposed the construction of a railway station proposed in its neighborhood in the Meiji period, it could avoid being urbanized (the station was opened as Unebi Station.)
江戸後期に重税により町は衰退に向かい、明治期には近隣に持ち上がった鉄道駅建設計画に反対したことから都市化を免れることができた（畝傍駅として開業）。