Although the Yodo-jo Castle in Fushimi Ward was built in the Edo period under the leadership of the Edo bakufu (Japanese feudal government headed by a shogun) as the castle of Yodo clan who was the only feudal lord family to govern Yamashiro Province, there used to be three castles that were called Yodo-jo.
今日伏見区にある淀城は、近世になって山城国唯一の大名家となる淀藩の居城として、江戸幕府主導のもと築城されたものであるが、本来淀城は三つ存在する。