Castle-town grid
The old centre keeps its regular chequerboard of streets from the late 1500s, a tight pattern of blocks and temple lanes that stands out sharply in black and white.
Tabula geographica minimalis · Japan
35.9811° N / 136.4873° E
A castle town in a mountain basin, its old quarter still laid out in a neat grid below a hilltop keep.





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Ono sits in a basin in eastern Fukui Prefecture, ringed by mountains that frame the town on every side. The historic centre was laid out in the late sixteenth century by Kanamori Nagachika as a castle town, with streets arranged in a regular, board-like grid. That orderly plan survives today and has earned Ono the nickname of a little Kyoto of the Hokuriku region.
Above the grid, Echizen Ono Castle stands on Kameyama, a small hill at the edge of the old town. On some autumn mornings fog fills the basin while the castle rises clear above it, an image that has made it known as a castle in the sky. Spring water is another local signature, with clear springs such as Ochoboshimizu used by residents for generations.
An Ono map poster shows the clarity of a planned castle town better than most photographs. The grid of the old quarter, the rounded hill of the castle and the farmland stretching to the mountains make a balanced composition, well suited to anyone who has walked its morning market street or watched the clouds settle in the basin.
The old centre keeps its regular chequerboard of streets from the late 1500s, a tight pattern of blocks and temple lanes that stands out sharply in black and white.
The small hill crowned by Echizen Ono Castle rises at the edge of the old town, drawn as a compact, rounded mass among the straight streets.
Paddy fields fill the flat floor of the basin around the town, with roads and rivers leading toward the surrounding mountains that close the view on every side.
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Ono appeals to anyone drawn to Japanese town planning, or with ties to Fukui and its quiet mountain valleys. The map reads almost like an architectural plan, a calm, ordered piece that sits well in a minimalist room.
Customise the title, subtitle and coordinates line, and choose from Classic black & white, Noir, Paper, Blueprint or Sand; Paper and Sand suit the castle-town mood especially well. Download HD files for $9 in six sizes, or order a printed poster.
Eme tabulam Ono| Magnitudo impressionis | Resolutio | Fasciculi |
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| 30 × 40 cm11.8 × 15.7″ | 3,543 × 4,724 px | PNG · PDF |
| 29.7 × 42 cm (A3)11.7 × 16.5″ | 3,508 × 4,961 px | PNG · PDF |
| 42 × 59.4 cm (A2)16.5 × 23.4″ | 4,961 × 7,016 px | PNG · PDF |
| 45.7 × 61 cm18 × 24″ | 5,400 × 7,200 px | PNG · PDF |
| 50 × 70 cm19.7 × 27.6″ | 5,906 × 8,268 px | PNG · PDF |
| 61 × 91.4 cm24 × 36″ | 7,200 × 10,800 px | PNG · PDF |
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