This site has attracted the attention of people since the end of the Edo period as a place where Emperor Jinmu found a nation, and the Unebi Mausoleum was built there; in the Meiji period Kashihara-jingu Shrine, Kanpei-taisha (large-scale state shrine), was also buiit.
幕末から神武天皇建国の地として注目され、畝傍陵が造営され、また明治期には官幣大社・橿原神宮も創建された。