Abe

Abe lies in Suruga along the river of the same name, where the Imagawa established their centre at Sunpu. After the fall of the Imagawa and Takeda, Tokugawa Ieyasu built a castle here in the 1580s. He moved to Edo in 1590, but returned to Sunpu after passing the shogunate to his son. The castle was greatly enlarged in 1607, and from this residence the retired Ieyasu continued to exercise political influence.