Fuchi

Fuchi lies in western Tōtōmi, where Hamamatsu stands between the sea and the uplands. In 1570 Tokugawa Ieyasu established his residence at Hamamatsu Castle, expanding an earlier stronghold as a base for campaigns in the region. Two years later Takeda Shingen defeated him at nearby Mikatagahara. The castle and its town nevertheless remained important to Ieyasu's rise, before he later moved his seat eastward to Sunpu.