I looked through many places in Edo (now Tokyo) and I found Edo Jo the most helpful to understand Edo. Edo-Jo shows the way that Japan was in the 1800. In Edo Jo was the Edo Castle. It was first built in 1457, and then it was a small foutress on top of a hill. It was built by Ota Dokan, a small local ruler who served the daimyo of the Hojo family. During the 1800 and so on the shogun lived there. In 1603, Ieyasu defeated all other rival daimyo in the country in a great battle, at Sekigahara, and he was named Shogun . The first thing he did was to order all other daymio in the country to prove their loyalty by helping with the construction work on his castle. Each of the daimyo was assigned a portion of the construction work. Sadly the project was so huge that Ieyasu himself did not see it finished. Part of the castle burned down in the Great Meireki Fire, and although most of the buildings were restored, the main tower was never rebuilt. Very few people get to see the inside of the Shoguns residence today. When people went to Edo many of them went to Edo-jo to see the Edo capital.