A wood and charcoal business held the property rights for the plot of land since the early Meiji period, but the gradual move to other sources of fuel resulted in the deterioration of those company buildings.

In 1983, redevelopment of the area was approved, but building permits were refused because the highway was already being planned.

[4] The property rights' holders refused to give up, and negotiated with the Hanshin Expressway corporation for approximately five years to reach the current solution.

This system was originally designed to facilitate the construction of the second ring road in the vicinity of Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, but in the end was not applied there.

Normally, highways are still built underground in these cases, and passing through a building is an extremely rare occurrence.