During Rokuhara tandai's age of prospertity, horse moorings existed in order to send them to Kamakura, which many people came to see, and it became known as Umamachi (horse town).
馬町は、六波羅探題が栄えた頃、駿馬があり鎌倉に送るためにこの地に繋留したところ、大勢の人が見に来たことから馬町と称されるようになったと伝えられる。