Succeeding Ōwada anchorage, it was developed as a Ming-Japan trade hub under Ashikaga Yoshimitsu. Destroyed in the Ōnin-Bunmei War, its role as an international port shifted to Sakai. In the late Sengoku period, Ikeda Tsuneoki built Hyōgo Castle to control the port town; it was reorganized during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's era.
Sources indicate approximately 5,000 vessels called annually around 1445, but how much port activity recovered after the Ōnin-Bunmei War is not definitively documented in available sources.
Medieval Hyōgo's harbor basin does not align with the present coastline; the coordinate represents the Nakanoshima district including Hyōgo Castle ruins.
Certainty: MediumHow far the account above is supported by the cited sources. It does not refer to the precision of the coordinates or the dating.
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