Ichihara-kyo



Ichihara-kyō 一原京 (literally "main plain capital") was the official capital of Nakama for nearly 700 years, from 1180 to 1821 where it also temporarily serves as the capital of Japan in 1180 during Genpei War. It's basically the old day of modern day city of Ichihara in Ichihara Prefecture. During the rule of Taira Shogunate rule of Nakama, Ichihara was the political center of both imperial and shogunate. Later with the fall of Taira Shogunate and rise of Kurahashi Shoguante in 1607, Ichihara-kyo remains to be the palace for imperial court for next 214 years where in 1821 Kurahashi Yukimasa decide to move the imperial court toward Serika where the shogunate capital was at that time.

Ichihara-kyo was built based on Heian-kyō with its grid street layouts. As for today, it remains to be one of the city in Nakama with its original architectural landscape as it never actually affected by war even in world war 2 where it left intact undamaged.