As the local branch of Japanese national army has occupied largely the site of the castle and its surrounding district, local governmental offices could scarcely get their sites at former "Kako-machi" on the periphery of the town, which had the lots for the former lord's detached estate and the dock for ship building. The former was transformed to the sites for the prefectural office and the diet, and public hospital etc. The municipal office and the diet have been drawn nearby. The latter was then reclaimed for the school and other public institutions. Thus the former lots were inherited but divided and reused for the new institutions. The location of the new governmental district were so unstable in the urban structure that it was temporary and transformed according to the modern development of the urban structure, especially after the destruction of the town by the A-bomb.
