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　Because there was a vinegar shop at the bottom of the hill, it became known as Vinuya-no-zaka.
　This slope contrasts with Shioya-no-zaka on the southern plateau. It is a typical slope of Kinki that shows the shape of a sandwich castle town where samurai residences line the north and south plateaus and townhouses stand in between. These two slopes are used by citizens as major passages both in the Edo period and today.

　It is a beautiful stone-paved slope with a harmonious combination of earthen walls and stone walls. The plaza at the top of the slope was a place for cavalry and samurai to co-arrange.

It is said that the slope is wider at the top and narrower at the bottom in order to make it easier to attack from above and harder to attack from below.