Tsuru

Tsuru lies among the mountains of eastern Kai, on routes toward Mount Fuji and Edo. Yamura became the district's political centre under the Oyamada family in the sixteenth century. In the early Edo period the Akimoto lords governed the Yamura domain, building irrigation works and encouraging sericulture. Silk weaving expanded among the mountain villages, giving the district a distinctive industry as well as a prosperous administrative town.