Nakaōno

Ōno lies in a mountain basin in eastern Echizen, on a route toward Mino. After suppressing the Ikkō uprising in 1575, Kanamori Nagachika received lands here from Oda Nobunaga. He built a castle on Kameyama and laid out a town below it with streets arranged in a regular pattern. Shichiken Street became its main thoroughfare, where a morning market is said to have begun in the castle town's early years.