A slope, connecting Honmaru (the inner citadel) and Ninomaru (the second
citadel), is called Bairin-zaka or Plum-grove Slope.
It is said that hundreds of plum (ume) trees were planted here by Ota-Dokan
in Edo period. Today, there are about 50 red- and white-blossoming ume trees planted in 1967. |