Initially, the southward of Kyoto Prefecture, and somewhere in Shiga Prefecture, were picked up as candidate sites, but Kyoto City proposed "Katsura Goryozaka", which was developed as the residential area, so they selected this place in the end.
当初は京都府南部や滋賀県も候補地として検討されたが、京都市の提案により、市が住宅地として開発していた「桂御陵坂」地区が建設地に選ばれた。