A traditionally identified site close to the heart of Toragozenyama, handed down as the camp of Hori Hidemasa. The draw here is three enclosures divided by trench cuts, together with a raised platform built on an ancient burial mound where a watchtower would have stood, which makes this one of the easier places to follow how a fortification of shaped earth was put together. A stone marker for Nobunaga's headquarters stands on the northernmost enclosure, so you walk it feeling the continuity with the Nobunaga camp site beyond. If you have come up through the southern area, this is where you notice the earthworks suddenly becoming denser.

This traditionally identified site is taken to be the heart of Toragozenyama, from which the attack on Odani Castle was directed. The forts on the ridge are recorded as begun on 27 July 1572 and completed on 8 August the same year. Stepped, overlapping enclosures and an elongated box-shaped gateway survive here, so the depth of defence you would expect at the centre of Nobunaga's position is something you can check for yourself on the ground. Some scholars place the headquarters on a different enclosure, and the several markers dotted around the area have the side effect of making the extent of the whole group of enclosures easier to appreciate.

This is the forward section that carries the name of Kinoshita Hideyoshi, the man later known as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Of everything on Toragozenyama it is described as lying on the side nearest Mount Odani, and as a point where the earthen ramparts and traces of ditches survive well. On 27 August 1573, acting on Nobunaga's orders, Hideyoshi used this as his base to storm the Kyogokumaru enclosure of Odani Castle. He then pushed straight on into the Komaru above it, and that sequence of moves settled the last days of Azai Nagamasa. Standing on the ground where history turned makes this one of the high points of Toragozenyama.

Carry on north along the Toragozenyama traverse and you come to the place handed down as the camp of Shibata Katsuie. It lies further north again than Hideyoshi's camp site, and you walk it as the point that closes off the northern end of Nobunaga's encirclement. There is relatively little detail in the way of surviving earthwork, but reaching it near the end of the traverse is the moment the whole plan falls into place: commanders posted along a single ridge from Yaai Shrine in the south to here in the north.

Beyond the Kinoshita Hideyoshi and Shibata Katsuie camp sites, this is where the traverse ends. It is less a place to look at dramatic earthworks than a place to look out at the view once you have walked the line of commanders' positions along the ridge and felt how Toragozenyama worked as a front line. Head north from here and the path becomes the descent towards Kawake Station. That descent includes stretches of continuous steep slope, and calls for particular care after rain.