Murakami Castle
| Murakami Castle (村上城, Murakami-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Murakami, northern Niigata Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Murakami Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Naitō clan, daimyō of Murakami Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known as "Maizuru-jō" (舞鶴城). The ruin been protected as a National Historic Site since 1993.[1] It is about 30 minutes on foot from Murakami Station on the JR East Uetsu Line. | ||||||
| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| Built： c. 1500 | ||||||
| Builder： Honjō clan | ||||||
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