However, Maizuru City is still an important position as an economic center of northern Kyoto, and the closest port of Japan Sea to the Kinai area (territories in the vicinity of the capital and under direct imperial rule, the five kuni in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto).
しかしながら今なお京都府北部では経済的中心都市として重要な地位を占めているばかりか、畿内に最も近い日本海側の拠点である。