Kanamori Nagachika, samurai of Oda Nobunaga, designed Echizen Ono Castle as well as the outlying castle town. The original design consists of six streets running from East to West, perpendicularly bisecting six rods running North to South. Teramachi is the western-most boundary of this division.
The rows of old houses, constructed in the Kyoto design, still stand as a testimony to the town's history.