These are the houses where 20 samurai officials of the Kishu Domain and their families lived. They were in charge of guarding Matsusaka Castle at the end of the Edo period. Their descendants still live there and maintain podocarp hedges, which form a splendid landscape.

As a movie director, Yasujiro said, “I want to shoot a movie here...”

This place must have looked really impressive to him, who was fond of running around the area.