During the Edo period, Shogun (Head of the lords) or Daimyos (feudal lords) often constructed a landscape garden in the go round style within their castles and residences in Edo where they could walk around (Daimyo gardens are typical in ponds and Tsukiyama (artificial hill in the garden) and promenades in the garden and they were called Chisen-Kaiyu-shiki-teien (go around the pond style garden).
江戸時代、将軍あるいは大名は、城や（江戸の）屋敷を築く際に庭園内を回遊することができる廻遊式庭園を盛んに築いた（大名屋敷の庭園に代表される池、築山を中心にした回遊できる庭園は池泉回遊式庭園といわれる。