Under circumstances where the flow of people and goods became active, cities of various characteristics such as castle towns, port towns, post-station towns, temple towns, shrine towns, mining towns and so on were born in various places.
人と物の流れが活発になる中で、城下町・港町・宿場町・門前町・鳥居前町・鉱山町など、さまざまな性格の都市が各地に生まれた。