東御門橋の手前に駿府城の案内板があります。
駿府城は、外堀・中堀・内堀の三重の堀を持つ輪郭式の平城です。本丸を中心に回字形に本丸・二ノ丸・三ノ丸と順に配置され、中央の本丸の北西角には、五層七階（外観五層内部七階）の天守閣がありましたが、寛永十二（一六三五）年に焼失しています。
駿府城が城郭としてそ姿を見せるのは、天正十三（一五八五）年に徳川家康公が築城を開始したことに始まります。この天正期の駿府城は現在の城跡に比べるとひと回り小さいと考えられますが、詳細は不明です。
この後、江戸幕府を開いた家康公が、慶長十二（一六○七）年将軍を退き、駿府に移り住むために天正期の駿府城を「天下普請」として拡張・修築しました。
当時の駿府は江戸と並ぶ政治の中心地として重要な役割を果していました。平成八年三月
静岡市
SUMPU CASTLE
Sumpu Castle was built on a plain in a contoured style surrounded by three moats : an inner, central and outer moat. The castle was composed of a main enclosure (the Honmaru), surrounded by a secondary enclosure (the Ninomaru) and a tertiary enclosure (the Sannnomaru). On the northwest corner of the main enclosure (the Honmaru) there was a building called a donjon (Tenshukaku) with five external roofs and seven internal levels, but they were burnt down in 1635.
Sumpu Castle first made an appearance in 1585 when Ieyasu Tokugawa started construction. The castle of the period is assumed to have been slightly smaller than the present site, but exact details of its size are not known.
Lord Ieyasu, one of the founders of the Edo government, retired as shogun in 1607. He then startd repairing and expanding the original castle into a "Shogun's Residence" in preparation for coming to live at Sumpu. When Lord Ieyasu resided in the castle, Sumpu, along with Edo, played an important role as a principal center of the Tokugawa government."
