Japanese Castles
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Ōzu Castle
大洲市 · JP
Ōzu Castle: a four-tier timber keep reborn above the Hiji River through citizen donations in 2004
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Sunpu Castle
葵区 · JP
Tokugawa Ieyasu's retirement castle where the shadow shogunate forged Edo Japan
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Kagoshima Castle
鹿児島県 · JP
A castle without a keep — the restored Goromon guards Satsuma's soul at Tsurumaru
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Tottori Castle
鳥取市 · JP
Castle of the Starvation Siege — and home to Japan's only spherical stone wall
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Oshi Castle
行田市 · JP
The Floating Castle that defied Ishida Mitsunari's siege and survived the great Sengoku flood
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Akashi Castle
明石市 · JP
Two three-story turrets stand side by side — a Harima castle five minutes from the station
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Hirado Castle
平戸市 · JP
A sea castle embraced by three coasts — Japan's only hill castle laid out by Yamaga science
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Komoro Castle
小諸市 · JP
The Ana-jo: Japan's only major castle that sits below its own town, with Takeda strategy in stone
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Hara Castle
南島原市 · JP
Hara Castle — the cliff-top stage where the Shimabara Rebellion ended in martyrdom
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Marugame Castle
丸亀市 · JP
Japan's tallest combined stone walls crowned by the smallest of the twelve surviving keeps
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Akō Castle
赤穂市 · JP
Stage of the Forty-seven Ronin tale — a rare Edo-era seacoast castle in Akō
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Kubota Castle
秋田市 · JP
A castle of earth, not stone: the Satake seat that anchors the 100 Fine Castles of Japan
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Uwajima Castle
宇和島市 · JP
Pentagonal sea-castle of the Date clan, one of Japan's twelve surviving original tenshu
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Toyama Castle
富山市 · JP
The Floating Castle on the Jinzu River, retirement seat of the Maeda lords of Etchu Province
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Iwamura Castle
恵那市 · JP
Highest of Japan's three great mountain castles, where a female lord's tragedy lingers in the mist
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Sendai Castle
青葉区 · JP
Date Masamune's mountain fortress — the citadel of Sendai that never fell
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Imabari Castle
今治市 · JP
Triple seawater moats and Japan's premier sea castle by master builder Todo Takatora
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Matsumae Castle
松前町 · JP
Japan's northernmost castle, embraced by eight thousand cherry trees on the Hokkaido frontier
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Shimabara Castle
島原市 · JP
The white castle that lit the Shimabara Rebellion — a five-story keep that ruined its own domain
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Katsuren Castle
うるま市 · JP
Ocean Gusuku of Amawari — the World Heritage castle where Roman coins slept for six centuries
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Nakagusuku Castle
中城村 · JP
A UNESCO World Heritage gusuku whose limestone walls astonished Commodore Perry.
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Hagi Castle
萩市 · JP
260 years of the Mori clan — stone walls and moats hold the memory of Meiji Japan
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Zakimi Castle
読谷村 · JP
Where Ryukyu's curving limestone walls dance — Gosamaru's World Heritage gusuku masterpiece
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Kiyosu Castle
清須市 · JP
Where Nobunaga launched his bid for the realm before Okehazama
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Kokura Castle
城内 · JP
Hosokawa Tadaoki's karazukuri keep — Kyushu's signature castle on the Murasaki River
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Aizuwakamatsu Castle
会津若松市 · JP
The red-tiled keep of Aizu — Japan's only crimson-roofed castle reborn from siege
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Matsuyama Castle
松山市 · JP
Japan's youngest original tenshu crowning Shikoku's largest surviving connected-keep castle.
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Okazaki Castle
康生町 · JP
Birthplace of Tokugawa Ieyasu — the Dragon Castle where the Mikawa samurai spirit was forged
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Nakijin Castle
今帰仁村 · JP
Japan's earliest cherry blossoms set against a 1.5-km serpentine limestone wall
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Kōchi Castle
丸ノ内 · JP
The only castle in Japan where the original tenshu and honmaru palace still stand side by side
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Maruoka Castle
坂井市 · JP
Hokuriku's only surviving keep — an archaic watchtower reborn after the 1948 earthquake
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Hirosaki Castle
下白銀町 · JP
Tohoku's only surviving castle keep, where 2,600 cherry trees frame white-plaster walls
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Kanazawa Castle
金沢市 · JP
Stronghold of the million-koku Maeda lords, crowned with lead-tile roofs and namako plaster walls
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Odawara Castle
小田原市 · JP
The impregnable seat of the Hojo five — and a nine-kilometer earthwork that defied even Hideyoshi
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Okayama Castle
丸の内 · JP
Black-lacquered majesty — the Crow Castle that mirrors white Himeji across Sanyo Road
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Gifu Castle
岐阜市 · JP
Where Oda Nobunaga raised his banner of unification — a Sengoku mountain castle on Mount Kinka
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Fushimi Castle
伏見区 · JP
The retirement castle that named an era — Hideyoshi's lost stronghold on Momoyama hill
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Hikone Castle
彦根市 · JP
One of Japan's five National Treasure castle keeps, seat of the Ii clan's 350,000-koku domain
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Inuyama Castle
犬山 · JP
Inuyama Castle: leading candidate for oldest of Japan's 12 surviving tenshu, on a Kiso-River bluff
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Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu
沖縄県 · JP
Five hundred years of Ryukyu Kingdom carved in coral stone — nine UNESCO sites across Okinawa
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Nijō Castle
中京区 · JP
Site of the Tokugawa shogunate's Kyoto might and the Meiji Restoration handover, Nijo Castle
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Azuchi Castle
近江八幡市 · JP
The phantom keep of Tenka Fubu — Oda Nobunaga's three-year wonder, now a Special Historic Site
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Hiroshima Castle
基町 · JP
Risen beyond the atomic bomb — Hiroshima Castle, the 'Carp Castle' of Mori Terumoto's delta keep
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Matsue Castle
松江市 · JP
Black-lacquered chidori soaring above Kameda Hill — the San'in region's only National Treasure keep
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Matsumoto Castle
丸の内 · JP
Black-lacquered National Treasure — the only flatland keep of Japan's twelve survivors
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Kumamoto Castle
中央区 · JP
Where Kato Kiyomasa's musha-gaeshi walls still defy invaders — Japan's Three Premier Castles
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Shuri Castle
那覇市 · JP
Rising from five fires across six centuries — the vermilion palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom reborn.
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Nagoya Castle
中区 · JP
Where the Golden Shachi gleam — the Tokugawa shogunate's flagship castle of Owari
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Osaka Castle
大阪城 · JP
The Taiko's ambition and the Tokugawa's prestige — one of Japan's three great castles in Osaka
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Himeji Castle
姫路市 · JP
Where the white heron alights — Japan's supreme World Heritage castle keep