Currently in Japan, half of the cities with over 100,000 in population were originally jokamachi, but with large fires, war, and development, they have changed so much that it is rare to find jokamachi that reflect what they looked like in the past.
現在の日本で、人口十万以上の都市の半分以上は城下町を起源とするが、大火や戦災、開発などで姿が変わり、往時を偲ぶことのできる城下町は少なくなってきている。