When court nobles who were granted Teguruma no senji (special permission given to specific people in Imperial family, consort and ministers from the Emperor to enter the imperial palace in a handcart where an ox-drawn carriage was banned) arrived at Imperial Palace, it was a practice to get off their cart at the Shunka-mon gate.
また輦車の宣旨（牛車の通行を禁じた内裏内郭で、輦車に乗ることを許可する宣旨で、皇族・女御・大臣などのうち特定の者に賜った）を得た公卿たちが参内したときも、春華門の前で下車するのが恒例だった。