Castle In Hokkaido
| 1．Katsuyama Date | ||||||
| Katsuyama Date (勝山館, Katsuyama-Date) is the remains of a castle or fortified residence in Hiyama, Hokkaido, Japan.[1][2] It is believed the castle was built by Takeda Nobuhiro in the 15th century.[3] The castle is now only ruins, just some remnants of moats and earthen walls. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 1977.[4] Katsuyama Date was listed as one of the Continued 100 Fine Castles of Japan in 2017.[5] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 15c Buildyear ： Takeda Nobuhiro | ||||||
| 2．Goryōkaku | ||||||
| Goryōkaku (五稜郭, lit. 'five-point fort') is a star fort in the Japanese city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido.[1][2] The fortress was completed in 1866. It was the main headquarters of the short-lived Republic of Ezo. | ||||||
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| Type： Star fort Builder ： 1866 Buildyear ： Takeda Ayasaburō | ||||||
| 3．Shinoridate | ||||||
| The site of Shinoridate (志苔館跡, Shinoridate ato) in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, Japan, is that once occupied by the Shinori Fort or Fortified Residence (as denoted by the tate or date ending). This was the easternmost of the so-called "Twelve Garrisons of Southern Hokkaido", built on the Oshima Peninsula by the Wajin from the fourteenth century.[1][2] The site was designated a National Historic Site in 1934 and is one of the Japan Castle Foundation's Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles.[3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： Fortified residence | ||||||
| 4．Shiryōkaku | ||||||
| Shiryōkaku (四稜郭) (literally, "four-point fort") is a fort in the city of Hakodate in southern Hokkaidō, Japan. It was constructed in April 1869, during the Battle of Hakodate, three kilometres to the northeast of Goryōkaku by two hundred soldiers of the former Tokugawa shogunate and a hundred local villagers, likely under the direction of Ōtori Keisuke.[1] Shiryōkaku has four bastions , and is sometimes known as the "butterfly fort" as opposed to the "star fort".[1] | ||||||
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| 5．Twelve Garrisons of Southern Hokkaido | ||||||
| The Twelve Garrisons of Southern Hokkaido (Japanese: 道南十二館, "Twelve Garrisons of the Southern Circuit") was a general term encompassing the Japanese feudal possessions in southern Ezo (now Hokkaido). The names come from the "Shinra no Kiroku" which describes the history of the Matsumae Domain. It is distributed along the southern coastline of the Oshima peninsula facing the Tsugaru Strait, from the Shimosa Garrison in Hakodate to Hanazawa Garrison in Kaminokuni. These garrisons were possessed by the Ando clan and were important sites for trade between Japanese merchants and the indigenous Ainu. | ||||||
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| 6．Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Sites | ||||||
| Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Sites (根室半島チャシ跡群, Nemuro hantō chashi ato-gun) is a grouping of twenty-four Ainu chashi on the Nemuro Peninsula in Nemuro, Hokkaidō, Japan that have been jointly designated a national Historic Site, out of a total of thirty-two chashi sites identified in the city. The grouping is also the first entry on the Japan Castle Foundation's 2006 list of Japan's Top 100 Castles. Typically found at elevations of 5 metres (16 ft) to 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level, they are mostly situated on bluffs overlooking the Sea of Okhotsk, reinforced with U-shaped or semicircular moats. Relative to many of those elsewhere on the island, their state of preservation is good. They are thought to date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and are associated with the 1789 Menashi–Kunashir rebellion.[1][2][3][4] | ||||||
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| 7．Benten Daiba | ||||||
| Benten Daiba (弁天台場) was a key fortress of the Republic of Ezo in 1868–1869. It was located at the entrance of the bay of Hakodate, in the northern island of Hokkaidō, Japan. Benten Daiba was built by the Japanese architect Takeda Ayasaburō on the site formerly occupied by a shrine to Benten, the goddess of fortune. Much of the remnants of the famous Shinsengumi fought their last battle and surrendered there. | ||||||
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| Type： Fortress Buildyear ： Takeda Ayasaburō | ||||||
| 8．Matsumae Castle | ||||||
| Matsumae Castle (松前城, Matsumae-jō) is a castle located in Matsumae in Hokkaidō, Japan, and is the northernmost castle in Japan.[1] The only traditional style Edo period castle in Hokkaidō, it was the chief residence of the han (estate) of the Matsumae clan. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro (flatland castle) Builder ： 1606 Buildyear ： Matsumae clan |
Castle In Aomori Prefecture
| 9．Sannohe Castle | ||||||
| Sannohe Castle (三戸城, Sannohe-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in the center of what is now the town of Sannohe, in Sannohe District of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It was located on a river terrace of the Mabechi River, which formed part of its natural defenses. The castle site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in March 2022.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1558-1564 Buildyear ： Nanbu Harumasa | ||||||
| 10．Shichinohe Castle | ||||||
| Shichinohe Castle (七戸城, Shichinohe-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Shichinohe, in Kamikita District of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. On December 13, 1941, the area was proclaimed a National Historic Site by the Japanese government.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： unknown | ||||||
| 11．Shōjujidate Castle | ||||||
| Shōjojidate Castle (聖寿寺館, Shōjojidate) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Nanbu, in Sannohe District of Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It was also known as the Moto-Sannohe Castle (本三戸城, Moto-Sannohe jō) (i.e. former Sannohe Castle). It was located at a strategic junction of the Ōshū Kaidō with the Kakuno Kaidō and the Mabechi River.The site of the castle, as well as the Buddhist temple of Sankō-ji, and the Moto-Sannohe Hachiman-gu Shinto Shrine collectively received protection as a National Historic Site on 30 September 2004. Portions of the site are now on private lands occupied by local farm houses and fruit orchards.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Nanbu Nobunaga | ||||||
| 12．Tanesato Castle | ||||||
| Tanesato Castle (種里城, Tanesato jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Ajigasawa, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. The site has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site, collectively with Hirosaki Castle and Horikoshi Castle as the "Tsugaru clan Castle Sites" since 2002.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1491 Buildyear ： Tsugaru clan | ||||||
| 13．Namioka Castle | ||||||
| Namioka Castle (浪岡城, Namioka jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Aomori, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1940 by the Japanese government.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1373 Buildyear ： Kitabatake clan | ||||||
| 14．Ne Castle | ||||||
| Ne Castle (根城, Ne jō) is a Muromachi period Motte-and-bailey-style Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1941.[1] It was extensively reconstructed in 1994.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1334 Buildyear ： Nanbu clan | ||||||
| 15．Hachinohe Castle | ||||||
| Hachinohe Castle (八戸城, Hachinohe-jō) was a Japanese castle that formed the administrative center of Hachinohe Domain, a feudal domain of the Nambu clan, located in the center of what is now the city of Hachinohe in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Nothing remains of the castle today. Hachinohe Castle was constructed in 1627, but styled as a jin'ya due to restrictions set by the Tokugawa Shogunate, which permitted only one castle per domain. It had two sets of concentric moats, and a two-story central structure with a barracks, but no donjon. It became the headquarters of the new Hachinohe Domain in 1664. From 1827-1829, the 8th daimyō of Hachinohe, Nambu Nobumasa, constructed a new palace in the inner bailey, as well as a martial arts training school in the second bailey. In 1838, Hachinohe Domain was upgraded in rank by the Shogunate, and for the first time Hachinohe Castle was officially styled as a “castle”. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1627 | ||||||
| 16．Hirosaki Castle | ||||||
| Hirosaki Castle (弘前城, Hirosaki-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Tsugaru clan, a 47,000 koku tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Hirosaki Domain, Mutsu Province, in what is now central Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It was also referred to as Takaoka Castle (鷹岡城 or 高岡城, Takaoka-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1611, reconstructed in 1810 Buildyear ： Tsugaru clan | ||||||
| 17．Horikoshi Castle | ||||||
| Horikoshi Castle (堀越城, Horikoshi jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Hirosaki, Aomori Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site, collectively with Hirosaki Castle and Tanesato Castle as the "Tsugaru clan Castle Sites".[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1336 Buildyear ： Tsugaru clan |
Castle In Iwate Prefecture
| 18．Isawa Castle | ||||||
| Isawa Castle (胆沢城, Isawa-jō) was an early Heian period jōsaku-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Ōshū, Iwate in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. The site was proclaimed a National National Historic Site in 1922.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： 802 AD Buildyear ： Sakanoue no Tamuramaro | ||||||
| 19．Kunohe Castle | ||||||
| Kunohe Castle (九戸城, Kunohe-jō) was a Japanese castle controlled by the Nanbu clan located in what is now the city of Ninohe, Iwate Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of far northern Japan. It was also referred to as Fukuoka Castle (福岡城, Fukuoka-jō)[1] or Miyano Castle (宮野城, Miyano-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： unknown | ||||||
| 20．Shirotoridate ruins | ||||||
| Shirotoridate ruins (白鳥舘遺跡, Shirotoridate iseki) was a late Heian period and Kamakura period settlement in what is now part of the city of Ōshū, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is protected by the central government as a National Historic Site.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： ruined settlement | ||||||
| 21．Shiwa Castle | ||||||
| Shiwa Castle (志波城, Shiwa-jō) was an early Heian period jōsaku-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. The site was proclaimed a National Historic Site of Japan in 1979.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： AD 803; 1221 years ago (803) Buildyear ： Sakanoue no Tamuramaro | ||||||
| 22．Tokutan Castle | ||||||
| Tokutan Castle (徳丹城, Tokutan-jō) was an early Heian period jōsaku-style Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Yahaba in Shiwa District, Iwate Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshū, Japan. The site was proclaimed a National Historic Site of Japan on 5 August 1969.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： 811 AD Buildyear ： Sakanoue no Tamuramaro | ||||||
| 23．Tonomi Palisade | ||||||
| Tonomi Palisade (鳥海柵, Tonomi-no-saku) was an early Heian period jōsaku-style Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Kanegasaki in Isawa District, Iwate Prefecture in far northern Honshū, Japan. The site was proclaimed a National Historic Site of Japan in October 2013.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Abe no Yoritoki | ||||||
| 24．Morioka Castle | ||||||
| Morioka Castle (盛岡城, Morioka-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle constructed in 1611. It was the seat of the Nanbu clan, a tozama daimyō clan who ruled over Morioka Domain, Mutsu Province in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan during the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The castle is located in what is now the center of the city of Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It was also referred to as Kozukata Castle (不来方城, Kozukata-jō), but strictly speaking this name pertains to the predecessor of Morioka Castle on the same site. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1598-1633 Buildyear ： Nanbu clan |
Castle In Miyagi Prefecture
| 25．Iji Castle | ||||||
| Iji Castle (伊治城, Iji-jō) was jōsaku-style Japanese castle built during late Nara period. Its ruins are now an archaeological site in the city of Kurihara, Miyagi prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site on August 27, 2003.[1] The actual pronunciation of the name of this fortification remains uncertain, as the kanji of its name can also be read as "Koreharu Castle". | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： 767 AD | ||||||
| 26．Iwakiri Castle | ||||||
| Iwakiri Castle (岩切城, Iwakiri-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the ward of Miyagino-ku, in the city of Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1982.[1] It was also referred to as Takamori Castle (高森城, Takamori-jō) The castle was home castle of Rusu clan.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1336-1392 Buildyear ： Rusu clan | ||||||
| 27．Iwadeyama Castle | ||||||
| Iwadeyama Castle (岩出山城, Iwadeyama-jō) was a castle in Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.[1]After serving Hideyoshi for a time, Date Masamune was given Iwatesawa castle and the surrounding lands as his home domain. Masamune moved there in 1591, rebuilt the castle, renamed it Iwadeyama, and encouraged the growth of a town at its base. Masamune stayed at Iwadeyama for 13 years and turned the region into a major political and economic center.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style castle Builder ： 14c or early 15c Buildyear ： Ujiie Naomasu | ||||||
| 28．Sendai Kōriyama Kanga ruins | ||||||
| The Kōriyama ruins (郡山遺跡, Kōriyama iseki) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara period government office complex, temple and temple ruins located in what is now part of Taihaku-ku in the city of Sendai, Miyagi prefecture in the southern Tōhoku region of northern Honshu, Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2006.[1] | ||||||
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| 29．Jō Palisade Site | ||||||
| The Jō Palisade site (城生柵跡, Jō-no-saku ato) is an archaeological site with the ruins of a Nara period jōsaku-style Japanese castle, located in what is now part of the town of Kami in Kami District, Miyagi prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. The site was proclaimed a National National Historic Site in 1979.[1] The actual name of this fortification remains unknown, and it has been postulated that it was one of the five fortifications, possibly the “Shikama-saku” or “Takazukuri-saku”, mentioned in historical records, as having even constructed in 737 AD, although evidence is scant. It is roughly contemporary with the much larger Taga Castle to the southeast. | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.737 AD | ||||||
| 30．Shiroishi Castle | ||||||
| Shiroishi Castle (白石城, Shiroishi-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle in what is now the city of Shiroishi, Miyagi.[1] During the Edo period, it was the castle of the Katakura clan, who were hereditary retainers of the Date clan of Sendai Domain. During the Boshin War, it was also temporarily the headquarters of the Ōuetsu Reppan Dōmei.[2] The castle was also known by the name of Masuda Castle (益田城, Masuda-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period, rebuilt 1591 Buildyear ： Shiroishi clan | ||||||
| 31．Aoba Castle | ||||||
| Aoba Castle (青葉城, Aoba-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Sendai, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Aoba Castle was home to the Date clan, daimyō of Sendai Domain. The castle was also known as Sendai-jō (仙台城) or as Gojō-rō (五城楼). In 2003, the castle ruins were designated a National Historic Site.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1601 Buildyear ： Date Masamune | ||||||
| 32．Taga Castle | ||||||
| Taga Castle (多賀城, Taga-jō) was a jōsaku-style Japanese castle built in the late Nara period in what is now part of the city of Tagajō in Miyagi prefecture in the Tōhoku region of far northern Honshu, Japan. Bashō tells of his visit to the site in Oku no Hosomichi. The ruins of Taga-jō and its former temple have been designated a Special Historic Site (特別史跡) since 1922.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： jōsaku-style Japanese castle Builder ： 724 AD | ||||||
| 33．Matsumori Castle | ||||||
| Matsumori Castle (松森城, Matsumori-jō), also known as Matsumoridate (松森館), was a Japanese castle in Mutsu Province. Located in modern-day Izumi-ku, Miyagi Prefecture, the castle belonged to the Kokubu clan, which ruled the area before the entry of the Date clan.[1] Matsumoridate was also known as Flying Crane Castle (Tsuru-ga-jō 鶴ヶ城), because of its similarity in appearance to the spread wings of a flying crane.[2] The last lord of the castle was Kokubu Morishige. After the entry of the Date clan, the castle was largely dismantled and became the traditional grounds for the Date clan's new year's falconry trips. | ||||||
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Castle In Akita Prefecture
| 34．Akita Castle | ||||||
| Akita Castle (秋田城, Akita-jō) refers to the ruins of a Nara period fortified settlement located in what is now the city Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. It is also sometimes referred to as “Fort Akita”. The name is sometimes used wrongly for Kubota Castle, an Edo period Japanese castle which served as the headquarters or the Satake, daimyō of Kubota Domain that was a domain in the northern part of Dewa Province created by the Tokugawa shogunate. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 780 Buildyear ： Ritsuryo government | ||||||
| 35．Ōtoriiyama ruins | ||||||
| The Ōtoriiyama ruins (大鳥井山遺跡, Ōtoriiyama iseki) is an archaeological site containing a large Heian period jōsaku-style fortification located in what is now part of the city of Yokote, Akita in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2010.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 36．Kakunodate Castle | ||||||
| Kakunodate Castle (角館城, Kakunodate-jō), also known as Asakura Castle and Ryugasaki Castle, was a mountaintop castle (yamashiro) located in Kakunodate, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Its roots can be traced to when Moriyasu Tozawa was given the area in 1590, though it may have been constructed prior to this. Due to a Shogunal decree that each domain was to retain only one castle, it was demolished in 1620. Only ruins remain at the site on Mount Furushiro. | ||||||
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| 37．Kubota Castle | ||||||
| Kubota Castle (久保田城, Kubota-jō) is a Japanese castle in the city Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Kubota Castle was home to the Satake clan, daimyō of Kubota Domain, rulers of northern Dewa Province. The castle was also known as "Yadome-jō" (矢留城) or "Kuzune-jō" (葛根城). In the official documents of the Tokugawa shogunate, the castle was called "Akita-jō" (秋田城), although this name is now more commonly used to refer to the Nara period fortified settlement of Akita Castle which was nearby. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1604 Buildyear ： Satake Yoshinobu | ||||||
| 38．Hiyama Andō Clan Fortified Residence ruins | ||||||
| Hiyama Castle (檜山城, Hiyama-jō) is a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Noshiro, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The site of Hiyama Castle proper, the outlying Ōdate (大館跡), and Chausu (茶臼館跡) fortifications and the ruins of the temple of Kokusei-ji (国清寺跡) were collectively designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1979.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Andō (Akita) clan | ||||||
| 39．Hotta-no-saku | ||||||
| The Hotta-no-saku ruins (払田柵跡, Hotta-no-saku iseki) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of a large-scale Heian period josaku-style fortified settlement located in what is now part of the municipalities of Daisen and Misato in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1931.[1] The site is maintained as an archaeological park with some reconstructed buildings. | ||||||
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| Type： josaku-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 40．Honjō Castle | ||||||
| Honjō Castle (本荘城, Honjō-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Yurihonjō, southern Akita Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Honjō Castle was home to the Rokugō clan, daimyō of Honjō Domain. The castle was also known as "Tsurumai-jō" (鶴舞城) or "Ozaki-jō" (尾崎城). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1610 Buildyear ： Tateoka Mitsushige, rebuilt by Rokugō Masanori | ||||||
| 41．Minato Castle | ||||||
| Minato Castle (湊城, Minato-jō) was a Japanese castle in what is now Tsuchizaki Minato, Akita, Akita Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Muromachi period, Minato Castle was home to the Ando clan, daimyō of Akita Domain, rulers of northern Dewa Province.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1436 ? Buildyear ： Ando Yasusue ? | ||||||
| 42．Yokote Castle | ||||||
| Yokote Castle was built by the Onodera clan in 1550, in Akita prefecture.[1] While it was constructed in 1500s, it's believed there were fortifications on site before that. The castle was of a modest size, consisting mainly of two features: the main enclosure and the secondary, Ninomaru.[2] It was burnt down in the Boshin War. | ||||||
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| 43．Wakimoto Castle | ||||||
| Wakimoto Castle (脇本城, Wakimoto-jō) is a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in Oga, Akita Prefecture, in the Tōhoku region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1979.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Andō (Akita) clan |
Castle In Yamagata Prefecture
| 44．Aterazawa Tateyama Castle | ||||||
| Aterazawa Tateyama Castle (左沢楯山城, Aterazawa Tateyama-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Ōe, Yamagata Prefecture in the Tohoku region of Japan. The site has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2009.[1] The site is approximately a 20 minutes walk from JR East Aterazawa Line Aterazawa Station. | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Aterazawa clan | ||||||
| 45．Oguni Castle (Tsuruoka) | ||||||
| Oguni Castle (小国城, Oguni-jō) was a Nanboku-chō period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. The site has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2002.[1] The site is approximately 30 minutes by car from Atsumi Onsen Station on the JR East Uetsu Main Line. It should not be confused with another Oguni Castle in Dewa Province, located in the Mogami region. | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Nanboku-chō period Buildyear ： Oguni clan | ||||||
| 46．Kaminoyama Castle | ||||||
| Kaminoyama Castle (上山城, Kaminoyama-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle located in the center of the city of Kaminoyama, eastern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Kaminoyama Castle was the headquarters for the daimyō of Kaminoyama Domain. The castle was also known as "Tsukoka-jō" (月岡城). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1535 Buildyear ： Takenaga Yoshitada | ||||||
| 47．Kinowanosaku | ||||||
| Kiwanosaku (城輪柵, Kiwanosaku) was a late Nara period though Heian period josaku-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Sakata, Yamagata Prefecture in the Tōhoku region of Japan. Its ruins are now an archaeological site and have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1932.[1] | ||||||
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| 48．Shinjō Castle | ||||||
| Shinjō Castle (新庄城, Shinjō-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Shinjō, northern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout most of the Edo period, Shinjō Castle was home to the Tozawa clan, daimyō of Shinjō Domain. The castle was also known as "Numata-jō" (沼田城) or "Unuma-jō" (鵜沼城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1622 Buildyear ： Tozawa Masamori | ||||||
| 49．Tateyama Castle (Yonezawa) | ||||||
| Tateyama Castle (舘山城, Tateyama-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Yonezawa, southern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. The site of the castle was designated a National Historic Site in 2016.[1] The castle grounds are a 20 minutes walk from Nishi-Yonezawa Station on the JR East Yonesaka Line. It should not be confused with Tateyama Castle in Tateyama, Chiba, whose name is written with slightly different kanji. | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period | ||||||
| 50．Tsurugaoka Castle | ||||||
| Tsurugaoka Castle (鶴ヶ岡城, Tsurugaoka-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle constructed in early Edo period in the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata. It was the seat of the Sakai clan, a fudai daimyō clan who ruled over Shōnai Domain, Dewa Province in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 51．Siege of Hasedō | ||||||
| The Siege of Hasedō (長谷堂城の戦い) was one of a series of battles fought in the far north of Japan's main island of Honshū (the Tōhoku region) contemporaneous with the famous and decisive campaigns between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari further south. Over the course of the year 1600, Naoe Kanetsugu, a general loyal to Ishida Mitsunari, would lead a campaign in Tōhoku, which included the siege of Hasedō castle, near Yamagata, which was his ultimate goal. Hasedō was held by Mogami Yoshiaki and the castle garrison led by Shimura Takaharu and backed by a Tokugawa-loyal army of the Date clan.Twenty thousand of Uesugi Kagekatsu's men moved towards Yamagata from the north, while Naoe Kanetsugu began his siege on Hasedō.[1] | ||||||
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| 52．Hataya Castle | ||||||
| Hataya Castle (畑谷城, Hataya-jō) was a castle built in Dewa Province, Japan. It is located in the town of Yamanobe in the Higashimurayama District of Yamagata Prefecture. It was the location of the Siege of Hataya in 1600, during which the castle's garrison of 300 men led by Eguchi Gohei was besieged by a 20,000 man force led by Naoe Kanetsugu. The garrison was defeated after a short siege.[1] | ||||||
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| 53．Yamagata Castle | ||||||
| Yamagata Castle (山形城, Yamagata-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the center of the city of Yamagata, eastern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Yamagata Castle was the headquarters for the daimyō of Yamagata Domain. The castle was also known as "Ka-jō" (霞城). The castle grounds are protected as a National Historic Site by the Japanese government[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1357 Buildyear ： Mogami Yoshiaki | ||||||
| 54．Yonezawa Castle | ||||||
| Yonezawa Castle (米沢城, Yonezawa-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the center of the city of Yonezawa, southern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Yonezawa Castle was home to the Uesugi clan, daimyō of Yonezawa Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1238, rebuilt 1608-1613 Buildyear ： Uesugi Kagekatsu |
Castle In Fukushima Prefecture
| 55．Utsunomiya Castle | ||||||
| Utsunomiya Castle (宇都宮城, Utsunomiya-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Utsunomiya, central Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Utsunomiya Castle was home to a branch of the Toda clan, daimyō of Utsunomiya Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： late Heian period | ||||||
| 56．Ōtawara Castle | ||||||
| Ōtawara Castle (大田原城, Ōtawara -jō) is a Japanese castle located in Ōtawara, southern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Ōtawara Castle was home to a branch of the Ōtawara clan, daimyō of Ōtawara Domain. It was also called the "Dragon Castle" (龍城, Ryū-jō) The Ōtawara clan was a branch of the Nasu clan, and was one of the seven Gōzoku samurai bands of the Nasu region of northern Shimotsuke Province. In 1590, Ōtawara Harukiyo went against his Nasu overlord and pledged allegiance to Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the Battle of Odawara against the Odawara Hōjō clan, and was awarded a 7,000 koku holding. He later pledged his forces to Tokugawa Ieyasu and fought a rear-guard action against the Uesugi clan while Ieyasu was at the Battle of Sekigahara and gained another 5,000 koku, which qualified him to the ranks of the daimyō. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1545 Buildyear ： Ōtawara Sukekiyo | ||||||
| 57．Oyama Castle | ||||||
| Oyama Castle (小山城, Oyama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Oyama, Tochigi Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. In 1991 the ruins were proclaimed a National Historic Site by the Japanese government collectively with Nakakuki Castle and Washi Castle as the "Oyama clan castle ruins".[1] The castle is also known as Gion Castle (祇園城, Gion-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1148 Buildyear ： Oyama Masamitsu | ||||||
| 58．Karasawa Castle | ||||||
| Karasawayama Castle (唐沢山城, Karasawayama-jō) was a Japanese castle originally built in the Heian period and used through the end of the Sengoku period. It was located in what is now part of the city of Sano, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2014.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 927 AD Buildyear ： Fujiwara no Hidesato | ||||||
| 59．Karasuyama Castle | ||||||
| Karasuyama Castle (烏山城, Karasuyama -jō) is a Japanese castle located in Nasukarasuyama, northern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Karasuyama Castle was home to a branch of the Ōkubo clan, daimyō of Karasuyama Domain. It was also called the Cactus Castle (臥牛, Gagyu- jō) Karasuyama Castle was originally built by Nasu Sukeshige in 1418 and was the primary residence of the Nasu clan from 1514 to the end of the Sengoku period. The castle resisted repeated attacks by the Satake clan and other enemies of the Nasu, but was never taken in battle. However, in 1590, partly for failing to participate in the 1590 Battle of Odawara, Toyotomi Hideyoshi divided the Nasu holdings, and awarding their ancestral castle temporarily to Oda Nobukatsu, one of the surviving sons of Oda Nobunaga.With the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Karasuyama Castle became the center of the 20,000 koku Karasuyama Domain, ruled by a succession of daimyo clans (Narita, Matsushita, Hori, and Itakura) before it was awarded in 1725 to a junior branch of the Ōkubo clan. Most of the castle buildings were reconstructed in 1659 by Hori Chikayoshi, including the primary daimyo residence the San-no-Maru Goten, and most of the castle gates. | ||||||
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| Type： mountain-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1418 Buildyear ： Nasu Sukeshige | ||||||
| 60．Nasu Kanda Castle | ||||||
| Nasu-Kanda Castle (那須神田城, Nasu-Kanda jō) was a Heian period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Nakagawa, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site, since 1984.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1125 | ||||||
| 61．Sano Castle | ||||||
| Little is known of Sano Castle (佐野城, Sano-jō). It is mostly connected to its nearby castle, Karasawa Castle, both of which were next to Sano, the corresponding castle townfor the two castles during the Edo period.The Sano Clan had previously built Karasawayama Castle, which had been established since the 1400s. In 1602, there was a great fire in Edo castle, which could be seenfrom Karasawayama Castle. The Sano clan [Wikidata] sent their condolences to the Emperor.Some historians say that when the Emperor realised that Karasawayama Castle looked down on Edo, he told the Sano clan that there was a law against this.In the same year of the fire, 1602, the Sano clan, rebuilt another new castle at a lower point on the hill - this castle was named Sano Castle. [1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1602 Buildyear ： Sano Nobuyoshi [Wikidata] | ||||||
| 62．Tobiyama Castle | ||||||
| Tobiyama Castle (飛山城, Tobiyama jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site, since 1977.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： late Kamakura period Buildyear ： Haga clan | ||||||
| 63．Banna-ji | ||||||
| Banna-ji (鑁阿寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Shingon sect in the city of Ashikaga, Tochigi Prefecture, in northern Kantō region of Japan. The honzon of the temple is a statue of Dainichi Nyōrai, leading to the temple's nickname of Dainichisama,.[1] The temple is built on the ruins of the ancestral fortified residence of the Ashikaga clan who ruled Japan during the Muromachi shogunate, and its grounds are a National Historic Site[2] | ||||||
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| 64．Mibu Castle | ||||||
| Mibu Castle (壬生城, Mibu-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Mibu, southern Tochigi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Mibu Castle was home to a branch of the Torii clan, daimyō of Mibu Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1469-1489 Buildyear ： Mibu Tsunashige |
Castle In Ibaraki Prefecture
| 65．Oda Castle | ||||||
| Oda Castle (小田城, Oda jō) is a hira-style Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1935.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hira-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Hatta clan | ||||||
| 66．Kasama Castle | ||||||
| Kasama Castle (笠間城, Kasama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kasama, central Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kasama Castle was home to a junior branch of Makino clan, daimyō of Kasama Domain, but castle and domain went through many changes in clans during the early Edo period. | ||||||
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| Type： mountain-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1219 Buildyear ： Kasama Tomonari | ||||||
| 67．Koga Castle | ||||||
| Koga Castle (古河城, Koga-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. During the Muromachi period, Koga was the seat of the Kantō kubō, under the Ashikaga clan. At the end of the Edo period, Koga Castle was the administrative center of Koga Domain, which was held by a large number of fudai daimyō clans, spending the longest time under the control of the Doi clan (1633-1681, 1762–1871). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Doi clan | ||||||
| 68．Seki Castle (Chikusei) | ||||||
| Seki Castle (関城, Seki-jō) is a hirayama-style Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the Makabe District, Hitachi Province in what is now the city of Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1192 AD Kamakura period Buildyear ： Seki clan | ||||||
| 69．Tsuchiura Castle | ||||||
| Tsuchiura Castle (土浦城, Tsuchiura-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in Tsuchiura, southern Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tsuchiura Castle was home to the Tsuchiya clan, daimyō of Tsuchiura Domain. The castle was also known as "Ki-jō" (亀城, Turtle Castle). The early history of Tsuchiura Castle is not clear, and per folklore the original castle was founded in the Heian period by Taira no Masakado. During the Sengoku period, the area around Tsuchiura was controlled by the Oda clan, who were later destroyed by the Yūki clan. After the Battle of Sekigahara, and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yūki were relocated to Fukui Domain in Echizen Province and a portion of their vacated domain was given to Matsudaira Nobukazu as a reward for his rear-guard action in the Battle of Sekigahara. His son, Matsudaira Nobuyoshi, laid out the foundations of the castle town and built a number of gates on the Mito Kaidō highway linking Edo with Mito. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 70．Makabe Castle | ||||||
| Makabe Castle (真壁城, Makabe-jō) was a Sengoku period "hirayama"-style castle located in the Makabe neighborhood of the city of Sakuragawa, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1994.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama- style Japanese Builder ： 1172 | ||||||
| 71．Mito Castle | ||||||
| Mito Castle was a 12th-century Japanese castle with an extensive history, now in ruins, located in what was Hitachi Province.[1] The castle ruins are located in the city of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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Castle In Tochigi Prefecture
| 72．Oda Castle | ||||||
| Oda Castle (小田城, Oda jō) is a hira-style Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tsukuba, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1935.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hira-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Hatta clan | ||||||
| 73．Kasama Castle | ||||||
| Kasama Castle (笠間城, Kasama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kasama, central Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kasama Castle was home to a junior branch of Makino clan, daimyō of Kasama Domain, but castle and domain went through many changes in clans during the early Edo period. | ||||||
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| Type： mountain-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1219 Buildyear ： Kasama Tomonari | ||||||
| 74．Koga Castle | ||||||
| Koga Castle (古河城, Koga-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Koga, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. During the Muromachi period, Koga was the seat of the Kantō kubō, under the Ashikaga clan. At the end of the Edo period, Koga Castle was the administrative center of Koga Domain, which was held by a large number of fudai daimyō clans, spending the longest time under the control of the Doi clan (1633-1681, 1762–1871). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Doi clan | ||||||
| 75．Seki Castle (Chikusei) | ||||||
| Seki Castle (関城, Seki-jō) is a hirayama-style Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the Makabe District, Hitachi Province in what is now the city of Chikusei, Ibaraki Prefecture, in the northern Kantō region of Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1192 AD Kamakura period Buildyear ： Seki clan | ||||||
| 76．Tsuchiura Castle | ||||||
| Tsuchiura Castle (土浦城, Tsuchiura-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in Tsuchiura, southern Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tsuchiura Castle was home to the Tsuchiya clan, daimyō of Tsuchiura Domain. The castle was also known as "Ki-jō" (亀城, Turtle Castle). The early history of Tsuchiura Castle is not clear, and per folklore the original castle was founded in the Heian period by Taira no Masakado. During the Sengoku period, the area around Tsuchiura was controlled by the Oda clan, who were later destroyed by the Yūki clan. After the Battle of Sekigahara, and the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Yūki were relocated to Fukui Domain in Echizen Province and a portion of their vacated domain was given to Matsudaira Nobukazu as a reward for his rear-guard action in the Battle of Sekigahara. His son, Matsudaira Nobuyoshi, laid out the foundations of the castle town and built a number of gates on the Mito Kaidō highway linking Edo with Mito. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 77．Makabe Castle | ||||||
| Makabe Castle (真壁城, Makabe-jō) was a Sengoku period "hirayama"-style castle located in the Makabe neighborhood of the city of Sakuragawa, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1994.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama- style Japanese Builder ： 1172 | ||||||
| 78．Mito Castle | ||||||
| Mito Castle was a 12th-century Japanese castle with an extensive history, now in ruins, located in what was Hitachi Province.[1] The castle ruins are located in the city of Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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Castle In Gunma Prefecture
| 79．Iwabitsu Castle | ||||||
| Iwabitsu Castle (岩櫃城, Iwabitsu-jō) is a "yamashiro"-style (castle located on Mount Iwabitsu in Higashiagatsuma, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2019.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.13th century Buildyear ： Agatsuma clan | ||||||
| 80．Takasaki Castle | ||||||
| Takasaki Castle (高崎城, Takasaki-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Takasaki, southern Gunma Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tatebayashi Castle was home to a branch of the Matsudaira clan, daimyō of Takasaki Domain, but the castle was ruled by a large number of different clans over its history. The castle was also known as "Wada-jō" (和田城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1597 Buildyear ： Ii Naomasa | ||||||
| 81．Tatebayashi Castle | ||||||
| Tatebayashi Castle (館林城, Tatebayashi-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Tatebayashi, southern Gunma Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tatebayashi Castle was home to the Akimoto clan, daimyō of Tatebayashi Domain, but the castle was ruled by a large number of different clans over its history. The castle was also known as "Obiki-jō" (尾曳城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 15th centuryrebuilt 1590 Buildyear ： Akai Terumitsu, Sakakibara Yasumasa | ||||||
| 82．Nagurumi Castle | ||||||
| Nagurumi Castle (名胡桃城, Nagurumi-jō) is a castle structure in Tone, Gunma Prefecture, Japan.[1] The castle played historically important role because invasion of the castle by the Later Hōjō clan caused Siege of Odawara (1590).[2] The castle is now only ruins, just some moats and earthworks.[3] The castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles in 2017.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1492 Buildyear ： Numata clan | ||||||
| 83．Kanayama Castle | ||||||
| Kanayama Castle (金山城, Kanayama-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style castle located on top of Mount Kanayama in what is now the city Ōta, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1990.[1] The castle was also known as Ōta Kanayama Castle or as Nitta Kanayama Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1469 Buildyear ： Iwamatsu clan | ||||||
| 84．Numata Castle | ||||||
| Numata Castle (沼田城, Numata-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Numata, northern Gunma Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Numata Castle was home to the Toki clan, daimyō of Numata Domain, but the castle was ruled by various clans over its history, and is noted as the site of a major battle in the Sengoku period. The castle was also known as "Kurauchi-jō" (倉内城). | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1532rebuilt 1597, 1703 Buildyear ： Numata Akiyasu, Sanada Nobuyuki, Honda Masanaga | ||||||
| 85．Maebashi Castle | ||||||
| Maebashi Castle (前橋城, Maebashi-jō) is a castle located in Maebashi, central Gunma Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Maebashi Castle was home to a branch of the Matsudaira clan, daimyō of Maebashi domain, although the castle was ruled by a large number of different clans over its history.[1] The castle was also known as "Mayabashi-jō" (厩橋城), after the former name of Maebashi. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 15th centuryrebuilt 1863 Buildyear ： Nagano Akinari, Kitajō Takahiro, Matsudaira Naokatsu | ||||||
| 86．Matsuida Castle | ||||||
| Matsuida Castle (松井田城, Matsuida-jō)) is the remains of a castle structure in Annaka, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. After Go-Hōjō's army defeated Takigawa Kazumasu's army in the Battle of Shintsugawa,[1] Matsuida Castle was seized and controlled by the Go-Hōjō clan.[2] Daidōji Masashige expanded and improved the defences of the castle against a possible invasion of the Toyotomi clan.[2] In 1590, after the outbreak of the Siege of Odawara, the castle was besieged by a big army of the Toyotomi clan and attacked by Maeda Toshiie , Uesugi Kagekatsu and Sanada Masayuki.[2] Masashige surrendered after about a month of siege.[2][3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Annaka clan | ||||||
| 87．Minowa Castle | ||||||
| Minowa Castle (箕輪城, Minowa-jō) was a "hirayama"-style (castle located in the Misato neighborhood of the city of Takasaki, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1987.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama- style Japanese Builder ： 1512 |
Castle In Saitama Prefecture
| 88．Iwatsuki Castle | ||||||
| Iwatsuki Castle (岩槻城, Iwatsuki-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Iwatsuki-ku, Saitama, in Saitama Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tateyama Castle was home to the Ōoka clan, daimyō of Iwatsuki Domain, however the castle dates from the Muromachi period and was inhabited by many samurai lords over its history. During the Edo period, the name of the castle was written as “岩付城”. It was also known as "White Crane Castle" (白鶴城, Hakutsuru-jō) or "Floating Castle" (浮城, Uki-jō). The site of the castle is a Saitama Prefectural Historic Monument.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period | ||||||
| 89．Ogura Castle | ||||||
| Ogura Castle (小倉城, Ogura-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Ranzan, Hiki District, Saitama, in the Kantō region of Japan.[1] The site has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site, since 2008.[2] | ||||||
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| 90．Oshi Castle | ||||||
| Oshi Castle (忍城, Oshi-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Gyōda, Saitama Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, Oshi Castle was the center of the 100,000 koku Oshi Domain, but the castle is far better known for its association with the siege of Oshi during the late Sengoku period. The castle was also known as "Kama-jō" (亀城, Turtle Castle) or "Oshi-no-uki-jō" (忍の浮き城, the Floating Castle of Oshi). It was regarded as one of the seven main strongholds of the Kantō region | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1479 Buildyear ： Narita Akiyasu | ||||||
| 91．Kawagoe Castle | ||||||
| Kawagoe Castle (川越城, Kawagoe-jō) is a flatland Japanese castle in the city of Kawagoe, in Japan's Saitama Prefecture. It is the closest castle to Tokyo to be accessible to visitors, as Edo castle is now the Imperial palace, and largely inaccessible. Along with a number of other castles in the region, Kawagoe saw much action in the 15th-16th centuries, as the Later Hōjō clan and two branches of the Uesugi clan vied for control of the Kantō region. In the 1450s, Kawagoe was held by the Yamanouchi branch of the Uesugi; the Ogigayatsu branch controlled nearby Shirai castle in Shimōsa Province, and the newly built Edo castle, which significantly bolstered their tactical advantages over their Yamanouchi cousins. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1457 Buildyear ： Ōta Dōshin, Ōta Dōkan | ||||||
| 92．Kawagoekan | ||||||
| The Kawagoekan (河越館) was a hirayama-style Heian period Japanese castle located in the Uwado neighborhood of what is now the city of Kawagoe, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. The ruins been protected as a National Historic Site since 1984.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Heian period Buildyear ： Kawagoe clan | ||||||
| 93．Sugaya Yakata | ||||||
| Sugaya Yakata (菅谷館) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Ranzan, Hiki District, Saitama, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2008.[1] | ||||||
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| 94．Sugiyama Castle | ||||||
| Sugiyama Castle (杉山城, Sugiyama-jō), also known as Makino Castle, was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Ranzan, Hiki District, Saitama, in the Kantō region of Japan.[1] The site was designated a National Historic Site.[2][3] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2008.[4] | ||||||
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| 95．Taki-no Castle | ||||||
| Taki-no Castle (滝の城, Taki-no-jō, literally means "waterfall castle") is a flatland-hilltop Japanese castle ruin located in Tokorozawa, Saitama Prefecture. It was on a key route between the northern Kanto Plain and Hachioji. The most recent structure was built in the 15th century by Ōishi Sadahisa and existed during the 16th-century Sengoku period of Japanese history. In 1546, the Hojo of Odawara took control and in 1569 possession passed to the Takeda.[1] Then Go-Hōjō clan expanded and improved the defences of the castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： Sengoku Period Buildyear ： Ōishi Sadahisa | ||||||
| 96．Hachigata Castle | ||||||
| Hachigata Castle (鉢形城, Hachigata-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle, located in the town of Yorii, Saitama Prefecture, in the Kantō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1932.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1476 Buildyear ： Nagao Kageharu | ||||||
| 97．Matsuyama Castle (Ranzan) | ||||||
| Matsuyama Castle (松山城, Matsuyama-jō), was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the town of Yoshimi, Hiki District, Saitama, in the Kantō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2008.[1] It is also referred to as Musashi-Matsuyama Castle, to distinguish it from the more famous Bitchū Matsuyama Castle or Iyo Matsuyama Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1399? |
Castle In Chiba Prefecture
| 98．Inamura Castle | ||||||
| Inamura Castle (稲村城, Inamura-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tateyama, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2012 together with Okamoto Castle as the Satomi clan castle ruins (里見氏城跡, Satomi-shi shiro ato).[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1489-1491 century Buildyear ： Satomi clan | ||||||
| 99．Ōtaki Castle (Chiba) | ||||||
| Ōtaki Castle (大多喜城, Ōtaki-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Ōtaki, southeast Chiba Prefecture, Japan. In the Edo period, Ōtaki Castle was given to Honda Tadakatsu.[1] The castle was also known as "Odaki-jō" (小田喜城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1590 Buildyear ： Honda Tadakatsu | ||||||
| 100．Okamoto Castle (Chiba) | ||||||
| Okamoto Castle (岡本城, Okamoto-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Minamibōsō, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2012 together with Inamura Castle as the Satomi clan castle ruins (里見氏城跡, Satomi-shi shiro ato).[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1570 Buildyear ： Satomi clan | ||||||
| 101．Kururi Castle | ||||||
| Kururi Castle (久留里城, Kururi-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kimitsu, southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kururi Castle was home to a branch of the Kuroda clan, daimyō of Kururi Domain. The castle was also known as Rain Castle (雨城, U-jō), after a legend that it rained twenty-one times during its construction, or, on average, once every three days.[1] It is located on a 227 meter hill.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1456 Buildyear ： Satomi Yoshiyori,Kuroda Naozumi | ||||||
| 102．Sakura Castle | ||||||
| Sakura Castle (佐倉城, Sakura-jō) was a 17th-century castle, now in ruins, in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. It was designated one of Japan's Top 100 Castles by the Japanese Castle Foundation.[1] | ||||||
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| 103．Sekiyado Castle | ||||||
| Sekiyado Castle (関宿城, Sekiyado-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Noda, northwestern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Sekiyado Castle was home to the Kuse clan, daimyō of Sekiyado Domain. Sekiyado is located at the confluence of the Tone River and the Edogawa River, and was thus a strategic location controlling river traffic in the northern Kantō region, as well as the northeastern approaches to Edo. A fortification was built on this location in the early Muromachi period by either Yadoya Mitsusuke (1395-1438) or Yadoya Shigesuke (d. 1512). It was destroyed during a campaign by the Later Hōjō clan of Odawara to conquer the Kantō region from 1565 to 1574. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1590 Buildyear ： Matsudaira Yasumoto | ||||||
| 104．Tateyama Castle | ||||||
| Tateyama Castle (館山城, Tateyama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Tateyama, southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tateyama Castle was home to the Inaba clan, daimyō of Tateyama Domain, but the castle is better known for its association with the former rulers of Awa Province, the Satomi clan.[1] The castle was also known as "Nekoya-jō" (根古屋城). | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1580 Buildyear ： Satomi Yoshiyori | ||||||
| 105．Moto Sakura Castle | ||||||
| Moto Sakura Castle (本佐倉城, Motosakura-jō) was a Muromachi period "hirayama"-style castle located on the border of the town of Shisui and the city of Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins been protected as a National Historic Site since 1998.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1469 to 1489 Buildyear ： Chiba clan |
Castle In Tokyo
| 106．Edo Castle | ||||||
| Edo Castle (江戸城, Edo-jō) is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in Edo, Toshima District, Musashi Province.[1] In modern times it is part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Chiyoda, Tokyo, and is therefore also known as Chiyoda Castle (千代田城, Chiyoda-jō).Tokugawa Ieyasu established the Tokugawa shogunate there, and it was the residence of the shōgun and the headquarters of the military government during the Edo period (1603–1867) in Japanese history. After the resignation of the shōgun and the Meiji Restoration, it became the Tokyo Imperial Palace. Some moats, walls and ramparts of the castle survive to this day. However, the grounds were more extensive during the Edo period, with Tokyo Station and the Marunouchi section of the city lying within the outermost moat. It also encompassed Kitanomaru Park, the Nippon Budokan Hall and other current landmarks of the surrounding area.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland Builder ： 1457 Buildyear ： Ōta Dōkan, Tokugawa Ieyasu | ||||||
| 107．Shakujii Castle | ||||||
| 35°44′14″N 139°35′48″E / 35.737282°N 139.596791°E / 35.737282; 139.596791 Shakujii castle (石神井城, -jō) was a Japanese castle along the Shakujii River, in what is now Shakujii Park, in Tokyo's Nerima. The history of the inheritance of the feudal territory associated with it is the most clearly known of all territories in what is today Tokyo.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Kamakura period Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period (1185-1333) | ||||||
| 108．Jindaiji Castle | ||||||
| Jindaiji Castle (深大寺城, Jindaiji-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle, located in what is now the city of Chōfu, Tokyo, in the Kantō region of Japan Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2007.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Buildyear ： Uesugi clan | ||||||
| 109．Setagaya Castle | ||||||
| Setagaya Castle (世田谷城, Setagaya-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Setagaya, Tokyo, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a Prefectural Historic Sites.[1][2] It is believed that the castle was constructed by the Kira clan in the Ōei Period.[3] Setagaya castle was a mere fortified residence when the castle was built but was expanded and improved the defences by Kira Naritaka in the Sengoku period.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro-style castle Builder ： Ōei Period Buildyear ： Kira clan |
Castle In Kanagawa Prefecture
| 110．Mount Ishigaki | ||||||
| 35°14′06.1″N 139°07′37.3″E / 35.235028°N 139.127028°E / 35.235028; 139.127028Mount Ishigaki (Japanese: 石垣山) is a mountain located in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture. The altitude is 241 meters.[1] It was designated as a national historic site in 1959.[2][3] | ||||||
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| 111．Ishigakiyama Ichiya Castle | ||||||
| Ishigakiyama Ichiya Castle (石垣山一夜城, Ishigakiyama Ichiya-jō) was a late Sengoku period Japanese castle in Odawara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. It was one of the most famous among the castles built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi,[1] and was the site of his first meeting with Date Masamune.[2] Its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1959.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 1590 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| 112．Isshōmasu Site | ||||||
| 35°18′53″N 139°31′39″E / 35.31472°N 139.52750°E / 35.31472; 139.52750Isshōmasu Site (Japanese: 一升桝遺跡[1]) is an archaeological site that is located in Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture.[2] The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2007.[3] It is a Kamakura period earthworks beside the road, half a kilometre from Gokuraku-ji.[4] | ||||||
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| 113．Odawara Castle | ||||||
| Odawara Castle (小田原城, Odawara-jō) is reconstructed Japanese castle in the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. The current donjon (keep) was constructed out of reinforced concrete in 1960 on a stone foundation of the former donjon, torn down from 1870–1872 during the Meiji Period. There has been fortifications at or around the castle's current site since the Kamakura Period (1185–1333). | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1447, rebuilt 1633, 1706 | ||||||
| 114．Kozukue Castle | ||||||
| Kozukue Castle (小机城, Kozukue-jō) is the name for the earthly remains of a castle structure in Kozukue, Kōho-ku ward of Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama style castle Builder ： 14C Buildyear ： Uesugi clan | ||||||
| 115．Tamanawa Castle | ||||||
| Tamanawa Castle (玉縄城, Tamanawa-jō) was a castle structure in Tamanawa ward of Kamakura, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan.[1] The adopted brother of Hōjō Ujiyasu, Hōjō Tsunashige was command of the castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1512 Buildyear ： Hōjō Sōun |
Castle In Niigata Prefecture
| 116．Kasugayama Castle | ||||||
| Kasugayama Castle (春日山城, Kasugayama-jō) is a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Nakayashiki neighborhood of the city of Jōetsu, Niigata prefecture. It was the primary fortress of the warlord Uesugi Kenshin, and was originally built and ruled by the Nagao clan. It is listed as one of Japan's Top 100 Castles and the ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1935.[1] The castle and its history were mentioned by Takizawa Bakin, and Yamazaki Yoshishige in Tanki manroku.[2] Kasugayama Castle is regarded as among Japan's Five Greatest Mountain Castles, along with Nanao Castle, Odani Castle, Kannonji Castle and Gassantoda Castle. The castle is unofficially called Hachigamine Castle (鉢ヶ峰城, Hachigamine-jō).[3] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Year Unknown Buildyear ： Nagao clan | ||||||
| 117．Sakado Castle | ||||||
| Sakado Castle (坂戸城, Sakado-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the Muikamachi neighborhood of the city of Minamiuonuma, Niigata Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1979.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1400 | ||||||
| 118．Samegao Castle | ||||||
| Samegao Castle (鮫ヶ尾城, Samegao-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now the Yukimori and Miyauchi neighborhoods of the city of Myōkō, Niigata Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2008.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1570s Buildyear ： Uesugi Kenshin | ||||||
| 119．Shibata Castle | ||||||
| Shibata Castle (新発田城, Shibata-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the city of Shibata, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Shibata Castle was home to the Mizoguchi clan, daimyō of Shibata Domain. The castle was also known as "Ayame-jō" (菖蒲城, "Iris Castle"). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Early Kamakura period; reconstructed 1597-1654 Buildyear ： Shibata clan (original); Mizoguchi Clan | ||||||
| 120．Takada Castle | ||||||
| Takada Castle (高田城, Takada-jō)) was an Edo period flatland-style Japanese castle located in what is now the center of the city of Jōetsu, Niigata Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. Under the Tokugawa shogunate, it was the centre of Takada Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro (flatland castle) Builder ： 1614 | ||||||
| 121．Tochio Castle | ||||||
| Tochio Castle (栃尾城, Iino-jō) was a castle structure in Nagaoka, Niigata, Japan.[1] The site is located on a 227-meter mountain.[2] Young Uesugi Kenshin spent five years in the castle.[3][4] The exact date of the castle's foundation is unknown but built in the Muromachi period. In 1543, Uesugi Kenshin left Kasugayama Castle and entered the castle as a joint commander by Nagao Harukage`s order.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 15C Buildyear ： ? | ||||||
| 122．Nagaoka Castle | ||||||
| Nagaoka Castle (長岡城, Nagaoka-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Nagaoka, Niigata Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Nagaoka Castle was home to a branch of the Makino clan, daimyō of Nagaoka Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1537 Buildyear ： Hori clan, Makino clan | ||||||
| 123．Hirabayashi Castle | ||||||
| Hirabayashi Castle (平林城, Hirabayashi-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Kamihayashi neighborhood of the city of Murakami, northern Niigata Prefecture, Japan. The castle ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1978.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： c. 1500 Buildyear ： Hirabayashi clan | ||||||
| 124．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. | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： c. 1500 Buildyear ： Honjō clan |
Castle In Toyama Prefecture
| 125．Kaetsu border castle ruins | ||||||
| The Kanetsu Border Castle ruins (加越国境城跡群及び道 切山城跡 松根城跡 小原越, Kaetsu-kuni-zakai shiro ato-gun oyobi michi Kiriyama-jō ato Matsune-jō ato Ohara-goe) is the name for a group of ruined castles and sites along the border of what is now Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture connected with the Sengoku period conflict between the warlords Maeda Toshiie and Sassa Narimasa. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 2015.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1584 | ||||||
| 126．Takaoka Castle | ||||||
| Takaoka Castle (高岡城, Takaoka-jō) was a flatland-style Japanese castle in what is now the city of Takaoka, Toyama Japan. It was originally constructed in 1609, and was only used for a few years before being dismantled. The site of its ruins are now a park.[1] The castle is designated one of Japan's Top 100 Castles by the Japanese Castle Foundation.[2] The ruins are protected as a National Historic Site.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1609 Buildyear ： Maeda clan | ||||||
| 127．Toyama Castle | ||||||
| Toyama Castle (富山城, Toyama-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is also called Azumi Castle (安住城 Azumi-jō).[1][2] Built in 1543, the castle and its surrounding land is maintained by the government of Japan as a public park. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1543 | ||||||
| 128．Masuyama Castle | ||||||
| Masuyama Castle (増山城, Masuyama-jō) was a Muromachi period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tonami, Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2009.[1] It was also known as Wada Castle (和田城, Wada-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1394 | ||||||
| 129．Matsukura Castle | ||||||
| Matsukura Castle (松倉城, Matsukura-jō) was a Muromachi period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Uozu, Toyama Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It was one of the three major mountain-castles in Etchū Province, along with Matsuyama Castle in central Etchū and Moriyama Castle in western Etchū. | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1335 | ||||||
| 130．Yasuda Castle | ||||||
| Yasuda Castle (安田城, Yasuda-jō) was a Sengoku period flatland-style Japanese castle located in the Fuchu neighborhood of the city of Toyama, Toyama Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1981.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Maeda Toshiie (?) |
Castle In Ishikawa Prefecture
| 131．Kaetsu border castle ruins | ||||||
| The Kanetsu Border Castle ruins (加越国境城跡群及び道 切山城跡 松根城跡 小原越, Kaetsu-kuni-zakai shiro ato-gun oyobi michi Kiriyama-jō ato Matsune-jō ato Ohara-goe) is the name for a group of ruined castles and sites along the border of what is now Ishikawa Prefecture and Toyama Prefecture connected with the Sengoku period conflict between the warlords Maeda Toshiie and Sassa Narimasa. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 2015.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1584 | ||||||
| 132．Kanazawa Castle | ||||||
| Kanazawa Castle (金沢城, Kanazawa-jō) is a large, partially restored Japanese castle in Kanazawa, Ishikawa, Japan. It is located adjacent to the celebrated Kenroku-en Garden, which once formed the castle's private outer garden. It was the headquarters of Kaga Domain, ruled by the Maeda clan for 14 generations from the Sengoku period until the coming of the Meiji Restoration in 1871. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland-style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Sakuma Morimasa | ||||||
| 133．Torigoe Castle | ||||||
| Torigoe Castle (鳥越城, Torigoe-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Torigoe area of what is now part of the city of Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1985.[1] The National Historic Site consists of the ruins of two castles, Torigoe Castle and Futoge Castle. The two castles were built on two mountaintops with the Dainichi River between them in 1573 as the final bastions for the Kaga Ikkō-Ikki movement. | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1580 | ||||||
| 134．Nanao Castle | ||||||
| Nanao Castle (七尾城, Nanao jō) was a Muromachi period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1408 Buildyear ： Hatakeyama clan |
Castle In Fukui Prefecture
| 135．Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins | ||||||
| The Ichijōdani Asakura Family Historic Ruins (一乗谷朝倉氏遺跡, Ichijōdani Asakura-shi Iseki) are historic ruins located in the Kidonouchi section of the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. This area was controlled by the Asakura clan for 103 years during the Sengoku period. It is designated as Special Historic Site in 1971, and in June 2007 2,343 artifacts were designated as Important Cultural Property. | ||||||
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| 136．Echizen-Fuchū Castle | ||||||
| Echizen-Fuchū Castle (越前府中城, Echizen-Fuchū-jō) was a flatland-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. The castle fell into ruins during the Sengoku period and the site was completely built over in the modern era, so nothing remains today. By its name, the original Echizen-Fuchū Castle is thought to have been built on the "Fuchū", or site of the Nara period provincial capital of Echizen Province. This fortified residence was subsequently used by the Shugo, or military governors of the province in the Heian through Kamakura period. However, with the rise of the Asakura clan to power, the center of government for Echizen Province shifted to Ichijōdani, and the Asakura appointed a local magistrate who resided at Fuchū. | ||||||
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| 137．Ōno Castle (Echizen Province) | ||||||
| Ōno Castle (大野城, Ōno-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Ōno, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Built in the Sengoku period, it was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Ōno Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1580 Buildyear ： Kanamori Nagachika | ||||||
| 138．Obama Castle (Wakasa Province) | ||||||
| Obama Castle (小浜城, Obama-jō) was a seaside-style castle located in what is now the city of Obama, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1] During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a junior branch of the Sakai clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Obama Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of Unpin Castle (雲浜城, Unpin-jō).[2] | ||||||
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| Type： seaside-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1641 Buildyear ： Sakai Tadakatsu | ||||||
| 139．Obama Domain Battery Sites | ||||||
| The Obama Domain Battery (小浜藩台場跡, Obama-han Hōdai-ato) was a series of 30 Bakumatsu period coastal artillery battery sites erected by Obama Domain on the Sea of Japan coast along what is now the coasts of the city of Obama and town of Ōi in the Hokuriku region of northern Japan. The ruins of these fortifications were collectively designated a National Historic Site in 2001.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： fortification Builder ： 1851 | ||||||
| 140．Katsuyama Castle | ||||||
| Katsuyama Castle (勝山城, Katsuyama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Katsuyama Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Built in the Sengoku period by the Shibata clan, it was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Echizen-Katsuyama Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The site is now a public park. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1579 Buildyear ： Shibata clan | ||||||
| 141．Kanagasaki Castle | ||||||
| Kanegasaki Castle (金ヶ崎城, Kanegasaki-jō) was a Kamakura to Nanboku-cho period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. It was also known as Tsuruga Castle. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Taira no Michimori | ||||||
| 142．Kuniyoshi Castle | ||||||
| Kuniyoshi Castle (国吉城, Kuniyoshi-jō) is a castle structure in Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3][4] The castle is now only ruins, with some stone walls and moats.[1] In 2017, the castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles.[5] 35°36′49″N 135°57′58″E / 35.61361°N 135.96611°E / 35.61361; 135.96611 | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 1556 Buildyear ： Awaya Katsuhisa | ||||||
| 143．Genbao Castle | ||||||
| Genbao Castle (玄蕃尾城, Genbao-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the border area of what is now part of the cities of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture and Nagahama in Shiga Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1999.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Sengoku period Buildyear ： Shibata Katsuie (?) | ||||||
| 144．Komaru Castle | ||||||
| Komaru Castle (小丸城, Komaru-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Echizen Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. Built in the Sengoku period by Sassa Narimasa, the ruins are now a Fukui Prefectural Historic Site. Komaru Castle was established in 1575 Sassa Narimasa, one of Oda Nobunaga's generals. Along Maeda Toshiie and Fuwa Mitsuharu, he was charged with keeping the peace and suppressing the Ikkō-ikki in Echizen Province. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1575 Buildyear ： Sassa Narimasa | ||||||
| 145．Shinzenkōji Castle | ||||||
| Shinzenkōji Castle (新善光寺城, Shinzenkōji-jō) was a flatland castle located in Echizen, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. Today, a memorial to the castle can be seen at what is now Shōgaku-ji. 35°54′09″N 136°09′49″E / 35.902445°N 136.163498°E / 35.902445; 136.163498 | ||||||
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| 146．Somayama Castle | ||||||
| Somayama Castle (杣山城, Somayama-jō) was a Kamakura period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the town of Nanjō (now part of the town of Minamiechizen), Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934, with the area under protection expanded in 1979.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Kamakura period Buildyear ： Minamoto no Yorichika | ||||||
| 147．Nochiseyama Castle | ||||||
| Nochiseyama Castle (後瀬山城, Nochiseyama-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Obama, Fukui Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1997.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1522 Buildyear ： Takeda Motomitsu | ||||||
| 148．Fukui Castle | ||||||
| Fukui Castle (福井城, Fukui-jō) is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan.[1] During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of Kitanoshō Castle (北ノ庄城, Kitanoshō-jō), after an earlier castle built by Shibata Katsuie, over whose ruins it is partly built. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1573/1606 Buildyear ： Shibata Katsuie, Yūki Hideyasu | ||||||
| 149．Maruoka Castle | ||||||
| Maruoka Castle (丸岡城, Maruoka-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle located in the Maruoka neighbourhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It also called Kasumi-ga-jō (霞ヶ城, Mist Castle) due to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle, a thick mist appears and hides it.[1] Built at the end of the Sengoku period, the castle was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Maruoka Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The site is now a public park noted for its sakura. The castle's relatively small tenshu (castle keep) claims to be the oldest in the country, a claim which is challenged by both Inuyama Castle and Matsumoto Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1576 Buildyear ： Shibata Katsutoyo | ||||||
| 150．Maruoka Domain Battery | ||||||
| The Maruoka Domain Battery (丸岡藩砲台跡, Maruoka-han Hōdai-ato) was a Bakumatsu period coastal artillery battery erected by Maruoka Domain on the Sea of Japan coast in the Mikuni neighborhood of the Mikuni neighborhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui in the Hokuriku region of northern Japan. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1930.[1] It is also called the Kaji Daiba (梶台場) after its location on Kaji Bay. | ||||||
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| Type： fortification Builder ： 1852 |
Castle In Yamanashi Prefecture
| 151．Katsunuma clan residence ruins | ||||||
| The Katsunuma clan residence ruins (勝沼氏館跡, Katsunuma-shi yakata ato) is an archaeological site consisting of the ruins of a Sengoku period fortified residence, located in what is now part of the city of Kōshū, Yamanashi in the Chūbu region of Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1981.[1] | ||||||
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| 152．Maizuru Castle Park | ||||||
| Kōfu Castle (甲府城, Kōfu jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in the Chubu region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 2019.[1] The castle is also known as Maizuru Castle, and the present-day surroundings are called Maizuru Castle Park (舞鶴公園, Maizuru-jō Kōen). | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle (平山城) Builder ： 1583 Buildyear ： Tokugawa shogunate, Hashiba Hidekatsu | ||||||
| 153．Shinpu Castle | ||||||
| Shinpu Castle (新府城, Shinpu-jō) was a Sengoku period hirayama-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Nirasaki, Yamanashi prefecture. It was the primary fortress of the warlord Takeda Katsuyori. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1973.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1581 Buildyear ： Takeda Katsuyori | ||||||
| 154．Tsutsujigasaki Castle | ||||||
| Tsutsujigasaki Castle (躑躅ヶ崎館, Tsutsujigasaki yakata) was the fortified residence of the final three generations of the Takeda clan, located in the center of the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan. It is not a Japanese castle in the proper sense of the word, and is not referred to as a "castle" in Japanese, as it was famously the policy of the Takeda clan to "make men your castle, men your walls, men your moats".[1][2] Nevertheless, it is listed as one of Japan's Top 100 Castles. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1938.[3] The site is open to the public and now contains the Takeda Shrine, a Shinto shrine dedicated to the deified spirits of the Takeda clan. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1519 Buildyear ： Takeda Nobutora | ||||||
| 155．Hakusan Castle | ||||||
| Hakusan Castle (白山城, Hakusan-jō) was a Heian period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Kamiyamamachi neighborhood of the city of Nirasaki, Yamanashi prefecture. It was the primary fortress of the warlord Takeda Nobuyoshi, the ancestor of the Takeda clan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2001.[1] The castle is also known as Nabeyama Castle (鍋山城, Nabeyama-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： late Heian period | ||||||
| 156．Yato Castle | ||||||
| Yato Castle (谷戸城, Yato-jō) was a Heian period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Ōizumi neighborhood of the city of Hokuto, Yamanashi prefecture, Japan. It was the primary fortress of the warlord Henmi Kiyomitsu, ancestor of the Takeda clan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1993.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： late Heian period Buildyear ： Henmi Kiyomitsu | ||||||
| 157．Yōgaiyama Castle | ||||||
| Yōgaiyama Castle (要害山城, Yōgaiyama-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro located in Kai Province (present day Yamanashi Prefecture), constructed in the 1520s by the Takeda clan. Since 1991, the ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1938.[1] The castle is also known as the Sekisuiyama Castle (積翠山城, Sekisuiyama-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： Yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1520 Buildyear ： Takeda Nobutora |
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| 158．Iiyama Castle | ||||||
| Iiyama Castle (飯山城, Iiyama-jō) was a hirayama-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Iiyama, Nagano prefecture. It was the headquarters for Iiyama Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa Shogunate and its ruins are now a public park. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Year Unknown | ||||||
| 159．Ueda Castle | ||||||
| Ueda Castle (上田城, Ueda-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Ueda, northern Nagano Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Ueda Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Matsudaira clan, daimyō of Ueda Domain, but the castle is better known for its association with the Sengoku period Sanada clan. It was also called Amagafuji-jō or Matsuo-jō. The castle was designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1583 Buildyear ： Sanada Masayuki | ||||||
| 160．Katsurao Castle | ||||||
| Katusrao Castle (葛尾城, Katsurao-jō)) is the remains of a castle structure in Sakaki, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. It is located on a 816-meter mountain.[1] The castle was a main bastion of the Murakami clan.[2] In, 1553, the castle was attacked by Takeda Shingen, Murakami Yoshikiyo abandoned the castle and fled to Echigo, seeking Nagao Kagetora's help.[3] As a result, the Battle of Kawanakajima happened.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Murakami clan | ||||||
| 161．Kuwabara Castle | ||||||
| Kuwabara Castle (桑原城, Kuwabara-jō), also known as Takatoya Castle and Suisho Castle, is a yamashiro (castle located on a mountain) situated in Suwa, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The castle was constructed sometime in the fifteenth century by the Kuwabara clan. By the time it came under the control of the Suwa clan, it had become a satellite castle to Uehara Castle. When forces of the Takeda clan arrived in the area in 1542, the lord of Uehara Castle, Suwa Yorishige, retreated to Kuwabara Castle, which was soon surrounded by Takeda soldiers. The castle fell after a two-day siege.[1] Yorishige and his two brothers were taken to Kofu. A month later, they were forced to commit seppuku. | ||||||
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| 162．Komoro Castle | ||||||
| Komoro Castle (小諸城, Komoro-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Komoro, central Nagano Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Komoro Castle was home to a junior branch of the Makino clan, daimyō of Komoro Domain. It was also known as Ana-jō (穴城, castle which is located in a place that is lower than jôkamachi) or Hakatsuru-jō (白鶴城, White Crane Castle). Today, it is open to public as Kaikoen (懐古園). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1554 Buildyear ： Takeda Shingen or Yamamoto Kansuke (general) | ||||||
| 163．Sanada-shi Yakata | ||||||
| Sanada-shi Yakata (真田氏館, Sanada-shi Yakata) is the remains of a fortified residence of the Sanada clan in Ueda, Nagano Prefecture, Japan. The site is believed that it was a main bastion of the Sanada clan until Sanada Masayuki moved their base to Ueda Castle in 1585.[1] Sanada-shi Yakata was considered unsuitable for withstanding a siege and Sanada clan had such castles as Sanada-shi Honjō Castle and Tenpaku Castle near the residence.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro-style castle Builder ： 1551 Buildyear ： Sanada Yukitaka | ||||||
| 164．Takashima Castle | ||||||
| Takashima Castle (高島城, Takashima-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Suwa, central Nagano Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Takashima Castle was home to the Suwa clan, daimyō of Takashima Domain. The castle is also known as ’The Floating Castle of Suwa’’’ (諏訪の浮城, Suwa-no-uki-shirō) or Shimazaki Castle (島崎城, Shimazaki-jō) | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1592 Buildyear ： Hideno Takayoshi | ||||||
| 165．Takatō Castle | ||||||
| Takatō Castle (高遠城, Takatō-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Ina, southern Nagano Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Takatō Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Naitō clan, daimyō of Takatō Domain. The castle was also known as Kabuto Castle (兜山城, Kabuto-jō). Built sometime in the 16th century, it is now largely ruins.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Sengoku period Buildyear ： Takeda Shingen | ||||||
| 166．Takanashi clan fortified residence | ||||||
| Takanashi clan residence ruins (高梨氏館跡, Takanashi-shi yakata ato) is an archaeological site containing the ruins of the Kamakura to early Sengoku period fortified residence of the Takanashi clan, local warlords in northern Shinano Province during that period. The site is located in the Otate neighborhood of the city of Nakano, Nagano in the Chūbu region of Japan. The ruins were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 2007.[1] | ||||||
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| 167．Tatsuoka Castle | ||||||
| Tatsuoka Castle (龍岡城, Tatsuoka-jō) was a Bakumatsu period pentagonal "star fort" located in what is now part of the city of Saku, Nagano prefecture. It was the primary fortress of Tatsuoka Domain, ruled by the Ogyū-Matsudaira clan. Along with the Goryōkaku in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, it is one of only two star fortresses in Japan, and has been the castle ruins have been designated as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Star fort Builder ： 1867 Buildyear ： Matsudaira Norikata | ||||||
| 168．Ogasawara clan castle sites | ||||||
| The Ogasawara clan castle sites (小笠原氏城跡, Ogasawara-shi jō-seki) were a number Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castles located in what is now part of the city of Matsumoto, Nagano prefecture. These fortifications were built in the Muromachi period by the Ogasawara clan, who ruled the area at the time. Two of the castle ruins, that of Igawa Castle and Hayashi Castle, have been protected collectively as a National Historic Sites since 2017.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castles Buildyear ： Ogasawara clan | ||||||
| 169．Fukushima Castle (Shinano Province) | ||||||
| Fukushima Castle (福島城, Fukushima-jō) was a castle located on the Kiso river in Kiso, Nagano, Japan. Fukushima Castle was the site of the Siege of Kiso-Fukushima led by Takeda Shingen in 1554. The castle's commander, Kiso Yoshiyasu [ja] surrendered the garrison when the food supplies ran out.[1] The castle no longer stands. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1532-1554 | ||||||
| 170．Matsumoto Castle | ||||||
| Matsumoto Castle (松本城, Matsumoto-jō), originally known as Fukashi Castle, is one of Japan's premier historic castles, along with Himeji and Kumamoto. It was the seat of Matsumoto Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate. It is located in the city of Matsumoto, in Nagano Prefecture. The keep 天守閣 (tenshukaku), which was completed in the late sixteenth century, maintains its original wooden interiors and external stonework. It is listed as a National Treasure of Japan, and is one of the twelve surviving tenshu in Japan.[1] It is surrounded by 4 buildings which have also been designated as National Treasures.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirashiro (flatland castle) Builder ： Current structures date from 1594; 430 years ago (1594) Buildyear ： Shimadachi Sadanaga |
Castle In Gifu Prefecture
| 171．Iwamura Castle | ||||||
| Iwamura Castle (岩村城, Iwamura-jō) was located in the southeastern area of Mino Province in Japan. Its ruins can be found in the modern-day municipal subdivision of Iwamura, in Ena, Gifu Prefecture.[1] Along with Takatori Castle in Nara and Bitchu-Matsuyama Castle in Okayama, it is regarded as one of the three best mountain castles, and at an elevation of 721 meters above sea level (200 meters above its immediate surroundings), it is one of the highest in Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1185 | ||||||
| 172．Ōgaki Castle | ||||||
| Ōgaki Castle (大垣城, Ōgaki-jō) is a flatlands-style Japanese castle located in the city of Ōgaki, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. During the Sengoku period, Ōgaki Castle was home to several of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's most trusted generals and relatives; during the Edo period, it was home to the Toda clan, daimyō of Ōgaki Domain, who dominated parts of the province of Mino under the Tokugawa shogunate. Other names for the castle include Bi Castle (麇城 Bi-jō) and Kyoroku Castle (巨鹿城 Kyoroku-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： flatlands-style Japanese Castle Builder ： 1535[1] | ||||||
| 173．Kaneyama Castle | ||||||
| Mino Kaneyama Castle (美濃金山城, Mino Kaneyama-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in Kani, Gifu Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] In 1981, the ruins were designated as a National Historic Site.[3] It was also known as Karasumine Castle (烏峰城, Karasumine-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1537 Buildyear ： Saito Masayoshi | ||||||
| 174．Kanō Castle | ||||||
| Kanō Castle (加納城, Kanō-jō) was a hirajirō-style Japanese castle located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It was one of the few castles built after the Battle of Sekigahara and establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate and was used as an administrative center of Kanō Domain under the end of the Edo period, but only its ruins, including the base of the tenshu and stone walls, remain today.[1] The ruins were designated National Historic Site in 1983.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： hirajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1602 Buildyear ： Okudaira Nobumasa | ||||||
| 175．Kawate Castle | ||||||
| Kawate Castle (川手城, Kawate-jō) was a castle that existed between the Nanboku-chō period and the Sengoku period. Its ruins are located in the present-day city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. An alternative way to write its name in Japanese is 革手城, which has the same pronunciation.[1] It replaced Nagamori Castle as the base of operations for the area and served as home for regional shugo until Saitō Dōsan switched to Inabayama Castle. After its demolition, earthen mounds still remained, but they, too, were broken down to help with the construction of Kanō Castle. | ||||||
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| Builder ： 1353 Buildyear ： Toki Yorinari | ||||||
| 176．Gifu Castle | ||||||
| Gifu Castle (岐阜城, Gifu-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Along with Mount Kinka and the Nagara River, it is one of the main symbols of the city. The castle is also known as Inabayama Castle (稲葉山城, Inabayama-jō). It was designated a National Historic Site in 2011.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1201 Buildyear ： Nikaidō clan | ||||||
| 177．Gujō Hachiman Castle | ||||||
| Gujō Hachiman Castle (郡上八幡城, Gujō Hachiman-jō) is a yamashiro, or "mountain castle", located on Hachiman Mountain in the city of Gujō, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins were designated a Gifu Prefecture Historic Site in 1955.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1559 Buildyear ： Endō Morikazu | ||||||
| 178．Kurono Castle | ||||||
| Kurono Castle (黒野城, Kurono-jō) was a castle built in Mino Province in Japan in 1597. Though the castle spanned the Sengoku and Edo periods, it barely did so as the castle was demolished in 1610. The castle supported the Saitō, Oda and Toyotomi clans. The castle was built by Katō Sadayasu in 1597. Though Sadayasu supported the Toki clan, Katō Mitsuyasu, his father, supported the Saitō clan and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who provided many of the stones for the construction of the castle. Mitsuyasu join in the invasions of Korea, but died of illness during his trip home in 1593, putting Sadayasu in charge of construction. | ||||||
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| Builder ： 1597 Buildyear ： Katō Sadayasu | ||||||
| 179．Sagiyama Castle | ||||||
| Sagiyama Castle (鷺山城, Sagiyama-jō) was a castle built in Mino Province in Japan during the late-Heian period (late 12th century); it was destroyed during the Sengoku period in the mid-16th century. The castle's ruins are located in the present-day city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture. It stood at the peak of Mount Sagi, which was only 68 m (223 ft). Because the castle was built as a residence and not a defensive fortress, its location on a small mountain was of little consequence. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： ca. 1185 Buildyear ： Satake Hideyoshi | ||||||
| 180．Sakurabora Castle | ||||||
| Sakurabora Castle (桜洞城, Sakurabora-jō) was a medieval Japanese castle built in the Hida Province. It is now located in the present-day city of Gero, Gifu Prefecture. It was constructed by the daimyō Mitsuki Naoyori (三木直頼) in 1544, near the end of the Sengoku period. In 1579, the ruler of Hida Province Mitsugi Yoritsuna (三木自綱) began construction on Matsukura Castle, intending it as the new home for the Mitsugi clan. From the start of construction until the Mitsugi clan could be installed into the new castle, Sakurabora served as Yoritsuna's seat of power. Thereafter, once the clan was established in Matsukura Castle, the Mitsugi used Sakurabora as their winter home. | ||||||
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| 181．Sunomata Castle | ||||||
| Sunomata Castle (墨俣城, Sunomata-jō) is a Japanese castle in Ōgaki in Gifu Prefecture at the confluence of the Sai and Nagara rivers. It is also called the Sunomata Ichiya Castle (墨俣一夜城), due to the legend that it was built in one night. The castle was constructed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, at the time a minor retainer of Oda Nobunaga, while they were pressing the Siege of Inabayama Castle in the mid-16th century. "The work of building at Sunomata was done by a band of adventurers under the direction of a local robber baron named Hachisuka Koroku."[1][2] Hideyoshi used pre-constructed sections to put up the fortress and it was finished so quickly that it gave the impression that it was done overnight, although the work took several days to complete. Hideyoshi's success with the construction of this castle greatly raised his prestige and standing with Nobunaga, and marked the start of his rise to fame. The "castle" was more of a wooden walled fortress, with simple watchtowers, wooden palisades, and dry moats. In reality, it was more of a border fort than a full sized castle, and was intended to intimidate, surprise and demoralize the enemy. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1567 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| 182．Takayama Castle | ||||||
| Takayama Castle (高山城, Takayama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. The castle was built on a mountain nearly 687 m (2,254 ft) in height and had many typical castle features, including a stone base, earthen walls and a surrounding moat. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1588-1600 Buildyear ： Kanamori Nagachika | ||||||
| 183．Naegi Castle | ||||||
| Naegi Castle (苗木城, Naegi-jō) was a Japanese castle that formed the administrative center of Naegi Domain, a feudal domain of the Tōyama clan, located in what is now part of the city of Nakatsugawa in Gifu Prefecture, Japan. It also referred to as the Misty Castle (霞ケ城, Kasumi-ga-jō), Naegi Castle was also known as "Akakabe Castle", as its walls were not white like many Japanese castles, but made with a reddish colored clay. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1981.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1532-1555 | ||||||
| 184．Nagamori Castle | ||||||
| Nagamori Castle (長森城, Nagamori-jō) was a castle built in Mino Province, Japan, by Tosanobō Shōshun (土佐坊昌俊), in 1185, and lasted from the Heian period to the early Sengoku period. It is located in the Kiridōshi area of the city of Gifu, Gifu Prefecture, Japan. After the castle was dismantled in the beginning of the Sengoku period, the Kiridōshi Jin'ya was built on the same spot. It served as the base for the area shugo until the construction of Kawate Castle nearby. | ||||||
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| Builder ： 1185 Buildyear ： Tosanobō Shōshun | ||||||
| 185．Matsukura Castle (Gifu Prefecture) | ||||||
| Matsukura Castle (松倉城, Matsukura-jō) was a castle in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, Japan (formerly Hida Province). It was built by, and ruled from, by Yasutane Shiina during the 16th century.[1] The castle was built on Mount Matsukura (松倉山 Matsukura-yama), which is in the southwestern area of the present-day Takayama. Though the mountain is 857 m (2,812 ft), its prominence is only 360 m (1,181 ft). While only the stone foundation surrounding the castle remains today, and the site was designated an Important Cultural Asset by the prefecture in 1956. | ||||||
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| 186．Kakegawa Castle | ||||||
| Kakegawa Castle (掛川城, Kakegawa-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various fudai daimyō clans who ruled over Kakegawa Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1469–1487, Buildyear ： Asahina Yasuhiro, Yamauchi Kazutoyo, others | ||||||
| 187．Katsurayama Castle | ||||||
| Katsurayama Castle (葛山城, Katsurayama-jō), also referred to as the Kazurayama Castle, is a Japanese castle in Susono, Shizuoka, Japan.[2] The Katsurayama Castle is located on the summit of Mount Atago, 270.4 meters above sea level, towards the end of the eastward ridge of Mount Ashitaka.[3][4] The Katsurayama Castle was built during the Sengoku period of Japan. At around 1557, Baba Nobuharu, one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen" decided that he was going to siege the castle. His plan fully went into action in March 1557 when him and 6,000 samurai and ashigaru succeeded in destroying the castle and killing the castle garrison. | ||||||
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| Type： Teikaku-style hirayama castle Builder ： c.15th century Buildyear ： Kuzuyama | ||||||
| 188．Kōkokuji Castle | ||||||
| Kōkukuji Castle (興国寺城, Kōkukuji-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Negoya neighborhood of the city of Numazu, Shizuoka prefecture.[1] The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1975.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 15th century | ||||||
| 189．Sagara Castle | ||||||
| Sagara Castle (相良城, Sagara-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Makinohara, central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Sagara Castle had been degraded to a jin'ya and was home to the Tanuma clan, daimyō of Sagara Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1767 Buildyear ： Tanuma Okitsugu | ||||||
| 190．Suwahara Castle | ||||||
| Suwahara Castle (諏訪原城, Suwahara-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Kanaya neighborhood of the city of Shimada, Shizuoka prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3] The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1975.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1573 Buildyear ： Baba Nobuharu? | ||||||
| 191．Sunpu Castle | ||||||
| Sunpu Castle (駿府城, Sunpu-jō) was a Japanese castle in Shizuoka City, Shizuoka Prefecture in Japan. The sobriquet of this feudal fortress was the "Castle of the Floating Isle".[1] It was also referred to as Fuchu Castle (府中城, Fuchū-jō) or Shizuoka Castle (静岡城, Shizuoka-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1589, rebuilt 1607, 1610, 1635 Buildyear ： Tokugawa Ieyasu | ||||||
| 192．Takatenjin Castle | ||||||
| Takatenjin Castle (高天神城, Takatenjin-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Kamihijikata and Shimohijikata neighborhoods of the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka prefecture. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1975, with the area under protection extended in 2007.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Year Unknown | ||||||
| 193．Tanaka Castle | ||||||
| Tanaka Castle (田中城, Tanaka-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Fujieda, central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tanaka Castle was home to a branch of the Honda clan, daimyō of Tanaka Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1537 Buildyear ： Imagawa clan | ||||||
| 194．Nagahama Castle (Izu) | ||||||
| Nagahama Castle (長浜城, Nagahama-jō) was a Sengoku period flatland-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Numazu, Shizuoka prefecture. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1988, with the area under protection extended in 2002.[1] | ||||||
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| 195．Nirayama Castle | ||||||
| Nirayama Castle (韮山城, Nirayama-jō) is a hilltop castle, now largely ruins, built by Hōjō Sōun in the Izu Province in 1493.[1][2] Originally, Sōun had his main castle at Kōkokuji Castle.[3] After building Nirayama Castle, Sōun made it his main castle and kept on living in the castle to his death in 1519.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1493 Buildyear ： Hōjō Sōun | ||||||
| 196．Numazu Castle | ||||||
| Numazu Castle (沼津城, Numazu-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was a hirayama-jō, a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain. During the Edo period, Numazu castle was home to the Mizuno clan, daimyō of Numazu Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 197．Hamamatsu Castle | ||||||
| Hamamatsu Castle (浜松城, Hamamatsu-jō) is a replica hirayama-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various fudai daimyō who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate.[1] It is also called Shusse Castle (出世城, Shusse-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： Circa 1532, rebuilt 1958 Buildyear ： Imagawa clan | ||||||
| 198．Futamata Castle | ||||||
| Futamata Castle (二俣城, Futamata-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Toyoda county of Tōtōmi Province, in what is now part of Tenryū-ku in the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was built in the Sengoku period and is noted as the site of the death of Tokugawa Ieyasu's son Matsudaira Nobuyasu in 1579. In 2018, the ruins were recognized as a National Historic Site together with adjacent Tobayama Castle (鳥羽山城, Tobayama-jō).[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1503 Buildyear ： Imagawa clan | ||||||
| 199．Mitake Castle | ||||||
| MitakeCastle (三岳城跡, Mitake-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Hamamatsu, Shizuoka in the Tōkai region of Japan. It was a fortress of the local Ii clan, which later rose to prominence under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1944.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Year Unknown Buildyear ： c.1338 | ||||||
| 200．Yamanaka Castle | ||||||
| Yamanaka Castle (山中城, Yamanaka-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro-style Japanese castle, built by the Odawara Hōjō clan in Tagata District, Izu Province, in what is now eastern Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1988.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1469-1487, Buildyear ： Hōjō Ujiyasu | ||||||
| 201．Yokosuka Castle | ||||||
| Yokosuka Castle (横須賀城, Yokosuka-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Ōsuka in the southern part of what is now the city of Kakegawa, Shizuoka, Japan. It was built in the Sengoku period and was the capital of Yokosuka Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo period Japan. In 1981, the castle ruins were designated as a National Historic Site.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： c. 1580; 444 years ago (1580) Buildyear ： Ōsuga Yasutaka |
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| 202．Inuyama Castle | ||||||
| Inuyama Castle (犬山城, Inuyama-jō) is a yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the city of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. The castle overlooks the Kiso River, which serves as the border between Aichi and Gifu Prefectures. The tenshu of Inuyama Castle, one of only 12 pre-modern tenshu remaining in existence, has been determined to be the oldest remaining tenshu, dating from the late 1580s. The castle has been a National Historic Site since 2018.[1] | ||||||
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| Builder ： 1537 Buildyear ： Oda Hirochika | ||||||
| 203．Iwasaki Castle (Owari Province) | ||||||
| Iwasaki Castle (岩崎城, Iwasaki-jō) is a hill castle (平山城 hirayamajiro) located in the city of Nisshin, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It was built during the Sengoku period in Owari Province and was a support castle to Shobata Castle (勝幡城 Shobata-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Sengoku period | ||||||
| 204．Ōno Castle (Chita District, Owari Province) | ||||||
| Ōno Castle (大野城, Ōno-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Ōno, Chita District, Aichi, former Owari Province. It is also known as Miyayama Castle (宮山城). The area is since 1954 a part of the town of Tokoname in Aichi Prefecture. Media related to Ōno Castle (Chita District, Owari Province) at Wikimedia Commons | ||||||
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| 205．Ogyū Castle | ||||||
| Ogyū Castle (大給城, Ogyū-jō) was a Sengoku period flatland-style Japanese castle located in the Ōuchi neighborhood of the city of Toyota, Aichi in the Tōkai region of Japan. The ruins, together with other sites in Matsudaira-gō associated with the Matsudaira clan, have been collectively protected as a National Historic Site since 2000.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period | ||||||
| 206．Kiyosu Castle | ||||||
| Kiyosu Castle (清洲城, Kiyosu-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kiyosu, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is noted for its association with the rise to power of the Sengoku period warlord, Oda Nobunaga.[1] The kanji in the name of the castle was written as 清須城. The current partial reconstruction dates to 1989[1][2] and was built as a centennial celebration for the modern-day city of Kiyosu. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1394-1407 Buildyear ： Shiba Yoshishige | ||||||
| 207．Mount Komaki | ||||||
| Mount Komaki (小牧山, Komakiyama) is an 86 m-high (282 ft) mountain located in the city of Komaki, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At one point, the mountain was topped with the original Komakiyama Castle, built by Oda Nobunaga.[1] Its base stretches for nearly 600 m (1,969 ft) from east to west, and 400 m (1,312 ft) from north to south, covering an area of approximately 21 ha (52 acres). The mountain is now a historical park, containing various castle ruins, including water wells and stone walls,[2] in addition to artifacts dating further back. Though known for the sakura trees, the northern part of the mountain is home to many Machilus thunbergii trees. This is the only spot in the surrounding area where these trees occur naturally. The reproduction of Komakiyama Castle was built in 1967 and houses the Komaki City Historical Museum. | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1563 Buildyear ： Oda Nobunaga | ||||||
| 208．Koromo Castle | ||||||
| Koromo Castle (挙母城, Koromo-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Koromo Castle was home to the Naitō clan, daimyō of Koromo Domain. The castle was also known as Shichishū-jō (七州城). A fortification was built near the present site of Koromo Castle during the Kamakura period, and the area was contested in the Sengoku period between the Imagawa clan and the Oda clan. After the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Miyake clan (formerly of Tahara were allowed to return to Mikawa and were assigned a 10,000 koku domain. In 1600, Miyake Yasusada built a jin'ya fortified residence approximately a kilometer away from the site of the original fortification, and planted sakura trees all around it. The residence was nicknamed "Sakura-jō " (桜城). | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1782 Buildyear ： Naito Masamitsu | ||||||
| 209．Jōjō Castle | ||||||
| Jōjō Castle (上条城, Jōjō-jō) was a hirashiro (平城, castle constructed on the plains) located in Kasugai, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] It was built in 1218 by Osaka Kouzen. Currently only ruins are left. From 1558 to 1573, the castle lord was Sassa Narimasa's subordinate. When the Battle of Komaki and Nagakute occurred in 1584, Ikeda Tsuneoki came there. After the war, Toyotomi Hideyoshi stayed at Jōjō Castle. The founder of Higashikasugai, Mayor Hayashi Kimbei, lived here during the Meiji period. | ||||||
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| 210．Tahara Castle | ||||||
| Tahara Castle (田原城, Tahara-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Tahara, southern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tahara Castle was home to the Miyake clan, daimyō of the 12,000 koku Tahara Domain. Tahara Castle is located on a small hill in the city of Tahara, near the root of the Atsumi Peninsula extending into Mikawa Bay. The location was formerly surrounded by inlets, which enhanced its defensive position, and its ability to extend control over shipping in the area. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1480 Buildyear ： Toda Munemitsu | ||||||
| 211．Nagashino Castle | ||||||
| Nagashino Castle (長篠城, Nagashino-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now Shinshiro, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. It is noteworthy as the site of the crucial Battle of Nagashino between the combined forces of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga against Takeda Katsuyori in 1575. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1929, the first time a former castle site had received such protection.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1508 Buildyear ： Suganuma Motonari | ||||||
| 212．Nagoya Castle | ||||||
| Nagoya Castle (名古屋城, Nagoya-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Nagoya, Japan. Nagoya Castle was constructed by the Owari Domain in 1612 during the Edo period on the site of an earlier castle of the Oda clan in the Sengoku period. Nagoya Castle was the heart of one of the most important castle towns in Japan, Nagoya-juku, a post station on the Minoji road linking two of the important Edo Five Routes, the Tōkaidō and the Nakasendō. Nagoya Castle became the core of the modern Nagoya and ownership was transferred to the city by the Imperial Household Ministry in 1930. Nagoya Castle was partially destroyed in 1945 during the Pacific War and the reconstruction and repair of the castle has been ongoing since 1957. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland Builder ： 1610-1619 | ||||||
| 213．Nishio Castle | ||||||
| Nishio Castle (西尾城, Nishio-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Nishio, eastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Nishio Castle was home to the Ogyu Matsudaira, daimyō of Nishio Domain. The castle was also known as Tsuru-jō (鶴城), Tsuruga-jō (鶴ヶ城), or Saijo-jō (西条城). Nishio Castle dates to the Kamakura period with a fortification called Saijō-jō was built by Ashikaga Yoshiuji in around 1221. The Saijō was a cadet branch of the Ashikaga clan and late changed their name to "Kira", serving the Sunpu-based Imagawa clan. After the Battle of Okehazama in 1600, the castle was captured by Tokugawa Ieyasu. He assigned it to one of his generals, Sakai Shigetada, who rebuilt it with moats, stone walls, several yagura, gates and a donjon. After the transfer of the Tokugawa clan to the Kanto region by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the castle was assigned to one of Hideyoshi's generals, Tanaka Yoshimasa, who was also castellan of Okazaki Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1585 Buildyear ： Sakai Shigetada | ||||||
| 214．Nirengi Castle | ||||||
| Nirengi Castle (二連木城, Nirengi-jō) was a Japanese castle in what is now the city of Toyohashi, Aichi Prefecture, during the Sengoku period. There are no extant structures left; however, a park was built on the site where the castle once stood, and a stone monument and some explanatory signboards were erected by the city. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland castle (平城) Builder ： 1493 Buildyear ： Toda Munemitsu 戸田宗光 | ||||||
| 215．Noda Castle | ||||||
| Noda Castle (野田城, Noda-jō) was a Sengoku period castle located in eastern Mikawa Province in what is today part of the city of Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. A fortified residence was constructed on this site by Suganuma Sadanori in 1508. The Suganuma clan were a subordination branch of the Okudaira clan, who ruled most of Mikawa Province. The castle was seized by the Imagawa clan in 1560, shortly before their defeat at the Battle of Okehazama in Owari Province. Suganuma Sadamitsu recovered the castle in a night battle in 1562. However, in 1571, a reconnaissance-in-force by the Takeda clan, led by Yamagata Masakage took the castle and held it briefly with little difficulty. When the armies of the Takeda clan, led by Takeda Shingen invaded Mikawa Province in 1573, the Takeda clan attempted to seize Noda Castle once again. However, in the past couple of years, the castle defenses had been increased by Suganuma Sadamichi, and the castle held out for several weeks. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland Builder ： 1508 | ||||||
| 216．Furumiya Castle | ||||||
| Furumiya Castle (古宮城, Furumiya-jō) is a castle structure in Shinshiro, Aichi Prefecture, Japan.[1] The castle was built by Takeda Shingen's general Baba Nobuharu[2] The castle is now only ruins, some moats and earthworks.[3] The castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles in 2017.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1571? Buildyear ： Baba Nobuharu | ||||||
| 217．Honshō-ji | ||||||
| Honshō-ji (本證寺) is a Buddhist temple of the Ōtani-ha Jōdo Shinshū sect in the city of Anjō, Aichi Prefecture, Japan. Its main image is a statue of Amida Nyōrai. It is a rare surviving example of a fortified temple/monastery from the Sengoku period and as such, the temple grounds have been designated as Historic Site of Japanin 2016.[1] The temple is also known as the Nodera Gohon-bō (野寺御本坊). | ||||||
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| 218．Yoshida Castle (Mikawa Province) | ||||||
| Yoshida Castle (吉田城, Yoshida-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Toyohashi, southeastern Aichi Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Yoshida Castle was home to the Inaba clan, daimyō of Tateyama Domain. The castle was also known as Imabashi Castle (今橋城, Imabashi-jō), and later as Toyohashi Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1505 |
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| 219．Akagi Castle | ||||||
| Akagi Castle (赤木城, Akagi-jō) was a Sengoku period hirayama-style Japanese castle located in the Kiwa neighborhood of the city of Kumano, Mie prefecture. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1989.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1589 | ||||||
| 220．Azaka Castle | ||||||
| Azaka Castle (阿坂城, Azaka-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the Oazaka neighborhood of the city of Matsusaka, Mie in the Kansai region of Japan. Its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1982, collectively with the ruins of Taka Castle and Karatachi Castle. [1] All of these fortifications were important citadels of the Kitabatake clan who controlled northern Ise Province in the Nanboku-chō period. | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1335 Buildyear ： Kitabatake Chikafusa | ||||||
| 221．Iga Ueno Castle | ||||||
| Iga Ueno Castle (伊賀上野城, Iga-Ueno-jō), also known as Ueno Castle (上野城, Ueno-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Iga, Mie Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan. The castle is also called Hakuho Castle (白鳳城, Hakuhō-jō), or "White Phoenix Castle," because of its beautiful architecture and floor plan. The castle has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1967.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： Edo period Buildyear ： Tsutsui Sadatsugu / Tōdō Takatora | ||||||
| 222．Kameyama Castle (Mie) | ||||||
| Kameyama Castle (亀山城, Kameyama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kameyama, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kameyama Castle was home to the Ishikawa clan, daimyō of Ise-Kameyama Domain. The castle was also known as "Kochō-jō" (粉蝶城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatlands-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1590 Buildyear ： Okamoto Munenori | ||||||
| 223．Kanbe Castle | ||||||
| Kanbe Castle (神戸城, Kanbe-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Suzuka, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kanbe Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Honda clan, daimyō of Kanbe Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatlands-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1532 to 1555 Buildyear ： Kanbe Tomomori | ||||||
| 224．Kiriyama Castle | ||||||
| Kiriyama Castle (霧山城, Kiriyama jō) was a yamashiro-style Muromachi period Japanese castle located in the Misugi neighborhood the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934..[1] The castle is also known as Tage Castle (多気城, Tage jō). | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Kitabatake clan | ||||||
| 225．Kuwana Castle | ||||||
| Kuwana Castle (桑名城, Kuwana-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kuwana, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kuwana Castle was home to a branch the Matsudaira clan, daimyō of Kuwana Domain. The castle was also known as "Ōgi-jō" (扇城) or "Asahi-jō" (旭城). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1601 Buildyear ： Honda Tadakatsu | ||||||
| 226．Tamaru Castle | ||||||
| Tamaru Castle (田丸城, Tamaru-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Tamaki, northern Mie Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tamaru Castle was home to the Kuno clan, daimyō of Tamaru Domain and one of the hereditary karō to Kii Domain. The ruins are a Mie Prefecture Historic Site. [1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1336 Buildyear ： Kitabatake Chikafusa | ||||||
| 227．Tsu Castle | ||||||
| Tsu Castle (津城, Tsu-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, Tsu Castle was home to the Sudo clan, daimyō of Tsu Domain, who dominated the provinces of Ise and Iga under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known as "Anotsu-jō" (安濃津城) after the ancient name for Tsu. The castle ruins are a Prefectural Historic Site.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1558, major reconstruction in 1608 Buildyear ： Hosono Fujiatsu Tōdō Takatora | ||||||
| 228．Toba Castle | ||||||
| Toba Castle (鳥羽城, Toba-jō) was a Japanese castle (now in ruins) located in the city of Toba, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Toba Castle was the administrative center for Toba Domain, a feudal domain of Shima Province under the Tokugawa shogunate. Toba Castle was also known as the Floating Castle of Toba (鳥羽の浮城, Toba-no-uki-jō) or the Two-color Castle (二色城, Nishoku-jō) (from the fact that its seaward side was painted black, and landward side painted white). The castle site received protection as a Mie Prefectural Historic Site in 1965.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1594 Buildyear ： Kuki Yoshitaka | ||||||
| 229．Nagashima Castle | ||||||
| Nagashima Castle (長島城, Nagashima-jō), is a hirashiro-style Japanese castle located in northern part of the city of Kuwana, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It was the administrative center of Nagashima Domain during the Edo period. | ||||||
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| Type： hirashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1245 (1245); rebuilt 1601 Buildyear ： Kujō Michiie | ||||||
| 230．Nagano Castle (Tsu) | ||||||
| Nagano Castle (長野城, Nagano-jō) was a Muromachi period "yamashiro"-style (castle located in the Misato neighborhood of the city of Tsu, Mie Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1982.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamashiro- style Japanese Builder ： 1274 | ||||||
| 231．Nakamurayama Castle | ||||||
| Nakamurayama Castle (中村山城, Nakamurayama-jō) was a hirayamashiro (平山城, castle constructed on a hill) located in Owase, Mie Prefecture, Japan. It was built by Naka Sinhachirō. The castle was built around the Sengoku period, but was attacked by Horinouchi Ujiyoshi and it fell in 1582. Whatever few remains survive of this era are maintained as a park now. | ||||||
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| 232．Matsusaka Castle | ||||||
| Matsusaka Castle (松坂城, Matsusaka-jō) was a Japanese castle (now in ruins) located in the city of Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Throughout most of the Edo period, Matsusaka Castle was a secondary administrative center for the Kishu-Tokugawa clan, daimyō of Kishū Domain. It has been protected as a National Historic Site since 2011.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1588 Buildyear ： Gamō Ujisato |
Castle In Shiga Prefecture
| 233．Azuchi Castle | ||||||
| Azuchi Castle (安土城, Azuchi-jō) was one of the primary castles of Oda Nobunaga located in the Azuchi neighborhood of the city of Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture. The site of the castle was designated a National Historic Site in 1926, with the designation upgraded to that of a Special National Historic Site in 1952.[1] The castle is located within the grounds of the Biwako Quasi-National Park. | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1579 Buildyear ： Oda Nobunaga | ||||||
| 234．Odani Castle | ||||||
| Odani Castle (小谷城, Odani-jō) was a Sengoku period mountain-top Japanese castle located in the former town of Kohoku, now part of Nagahama city, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. Only the ruins remain today. It was the home castle of the Azai clan and the mountain it was built upon was considered to be impregnable. The castle fell during Oda Nobunaga's siege in the Genki and Tenshō eras (Siege of Odani Castle), in 1573.[1] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1516 Buildyear ： Azai Sukemasa | ||||||
| 235．Kamaha Castle | ||||||
| Kamaha Castle (鎌刃城, Kamaha jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Banba neighborhood of the city of Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 15th century Buildyear ： Hori clan | ||||||
| 236．Kannonji Castle | ||||||
| Kannonji Castle (観音寺城, Kannonji-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in what is now the Azuchi neighborhood of the city of Ōmihachiman, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1982, with the area under protection expanded in 1984.[1] The castle was named after Kannonshō-ji, a Buddhist temple near the peak of the mountain. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountain castle (山城) Builder ： c.1468 Buildyear ： Rokkaku clan | ||||||
| 237．Kyōgoku clan ruins | ||||||
| The Kyōgoku clan ruins (京極氏遺跡, Kyōgoku-shi iseki) is a group archaeological sites in the Johei neighborhood of the city of Maibara, Shiga prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan, connected with the Muromachi period rulers of northern Ōmi province, the Kyōgoku clans. The sites have protected as a National Historic Site from 2004.[1] | ||||||
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| 238．Genbao Castle | ||||||
| Genbao Castle (玄蕃尾城, Genbao-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the border area of what is now part of the cities of Tsuruga, Fukui Prefecture and Nagahama in Shiga Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1999.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Sengoku period Buildyear ： Shibata Katsuie (?) | ||||||
| 239．Sakamoto Castle | ||||||
| Sakamoto Castle (坂本城, Sakamoto-jō) was a lakeside castle in the Sengoku period, located in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.[1] Akechi Mitsuhide was the commander of the castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mizu style castle Builder ： 1571 Buildyear ： Akechi Mitsuhide | ||||||
| 240．Sawayama Castle | ||||||
| Sawayama Castle (佐和山城, Sawayama-jō) was a castle in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. This castle was an important military stronghold of Ōmi Province. The Azai clan held this castle in the Sengoku Period. Niwa Nagahide held it after the ruin of the Azai clan and later, Ishida Mitsunari in the end of the 16th century. | ||||||
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| 241．Shimizuyama Castle | ||||||
| Shimizuyama Castle (清水山城, Shimizuyama-jō) is a Kamakura to Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the former town of Shin'asahi, now part of Takashima city, in Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It was had curved rings arranged in three directions around the main enclosure, and the site of the vassals and other buildings at the foot of the mountain. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2004.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1235 Buildyear ： Sasaki Takanobu | ||||||
| 242．Zeze Castle | ||||||
| Zeze Castle (膳所城, Zeze-jō), is a hirashiro-style Japanese castle located in eastern part of the city of Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： hirashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1601 (1601) Buildyear ： Tokugawa Ieyasu | ||||||
| 243．Nagahama Castle | ||||||
| Nagahama Castle (長浜城, Nagahama-jō) is a hirashiro (castle on a plain) located in Nagahama, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland Builder ： 1573 (1573) | ||||||
| 244．Hachimanyama Castle | ||||||
| Hachimanyama Castle (八幡山城, Hachimanyama-jō) was a castle in Ōmihachiman, Japan, on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture. It was the home castle of Toyotomi Hidetsugu, the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style castle Builder ： 1585 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hidetsugu | ||||||
| 245．Hikone Castle | ||||||
| Hikone Castle (彦根城, Hikone-jō) is a Japanese Edo-period Japanese castle located in the city of Hikone, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. It is considered the most significant historical site in Shiga. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951.[1] Hikone is one of only twelve castles in Japan with its original tenshu, and one of only five castles listed as a National Treasure. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1603–1622 Buildyear ： Ii Naokatsu | ||||||
| 246．Minakuchi Okayama Castle | ||||||
| Minakuchi Okayama Castle (水口岡山城, Minakuchi Okayama jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Kōka, Shiga Prefecture, in the Kansai region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2017.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1583 Buildyear ： Nakamura Kazuuji | ||||||
| 247．Minakuchi Castle | ||||||
| Minakuchi Castle (水口城, Minakuchi-jō), is a hirashiro-style Japanese castle located in the former town of Minakuchi, in the city of Kōka, Shiga Prefecture, Japan. The castle is also known as Hekisui Castle | ||||||
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| Type： hirashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1634 (1634) Buildyear ： Tokugawa Iemitsu |
Castle In Kyoto Prefecture
| 248．Kameyama Castle (Kyoto) | ||||||
| Kameyama Castle (亀山城, Kameyama-jō) is a castle located in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It guarded the northwest passage into Kyoto for nearly three hundred years. The castle was built by Oda Nobunaga's vassal Akechi Mitsuhide because he needed a front base to conquer Tanba region.[1][2] He set out for Honnō-ji (Honnō-ji Incident) from the castle in 1582.[3] After the Meiji period revolution, all the remaining structures of the castle were removed or destroyed.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hira style castle Builder ： 1578 Buildyear ： Akechi Mitsuhide | ||||||
| 249．Shōryūji Castle | ||||||
| Shōryūji Castle (勝龍寺城, Shōryūji-jō) is a castle in Nagaokakyō, Kyoto, Japan. This castle was constructed in 1339 by Hosokawa Yoriharu, a major samurai commander under Ashikaga Takauji, the founder of the Ashikaga shogunate. The area around the castle is a strategic foothold to defend Kyoto, the capital of Japan at that time, from western threats. During the Ōnin War, this castle was used as a castle of the western alliance and became occupied by Iwanari Tomomichi, a daimyō of the Miyoshi clan, during the Sengoku period. The castle fell to Oda Nobunaga in 1568, and was given to Hosokawa Fujitaka, who occupied it until 1579. | ||||||
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| 250．Tanabe Castle (Tango) | ||||||
| Tanabe Castle (田辺城, Tanabe-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in Maizuru, northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Tanabe Castle was home to a branch of the Makino, daimyō of Tango-Tanabe Domain. The castle was nicknamed Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城, Maizuru-jō), and during the early Meiji period, the city was named "Maizuru" to avoid confusion with the city in southern Kyoto now known as Kyōtanabe. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： c1580 | ||||||
| 251．Nijō Castle | ||||||
| Nijō Castle (二条城, Nijō-jō) is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings (Kuruwa) of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area of the castle is 275,000 square metres (27.5 ha; 68 acres), of which 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) is occupied by buildings. | ||||||
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| Type： Plains castle (平城) Builder ： 1679 Buildyear ： Tokugawa shogunate | ||||||
| 252．Fukuchiyama Castle | ||||||
| Fukuchiyama Castle (福知山城, Fukuchiyama-jō) is a castle located in Fukuchiyama, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： hilltop Builder ： 1572 Buildyear ： Yokoyama clan | ||||||
| 253．Fushimi Castle | ||||||
| Fushimi Castle (伏見城, Fushimi-jō), also known as Momoyama Castle (桃山城, Momoyama-jō) or Fushimi-Momoyama Castle, is a Japanese castle located in Fushimi Ward, Kyoto. Fushimi Castle was constructed from 1592 to 1594 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at the end of the Sengoku period as his retirement residence. Fushimi Castle was destroyed in 1596 and rebuilt before eventually being demolished in 1623 and its site later used for the tomb of Emperor Meiji. The current Fushimi Castle is a replica constructed in 1964 near the original site in Fushimi.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1592–1594, rebuilt late 1590s, again in 1964 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hideyoshi (original) | ||||||
| 254．Miyazu Castle | ||||||
| Miyazu Castle (宮津城, Miyazu-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in Miyazu, northern Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Miyazu Castle was home to a branch of the Honjō-Matsudaira, daimyō of Miyazu Domain. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1580 | ||||||
| 255．Yamashina Mido | ||||||
| Yamashina Mido, also known as Yamashina Hongan-ji (山科本願寺), was a Buddhist temple in Kyoto which was used as a fortress by the Ikkō-ikki, an organization of warrior monks and lay zealots who opposed samurai rule. The temple was founded by Rennyo, abbot of the Jōdo Shinshū sect whose preachings spurred the creation of the Ikkō-ikki. Following the 1465 destruction of the chief Jōdo Shinshū temple, the Hongan-ji in Kyoto, Rennyo spent roughly a decade in the provinces. | ||||||
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| Type： Fortified Buddhist temple Builder ： 1478-1483 Buildyear ： Ikkō sect | ||||||
| 256．Nijō Castle | ||||||
| Nijō Castle (二条城, Nijō-jō) is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings (Kuruwa) of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area of the castle is 275,000 square metres (27.5 ha; 68 acres), of which 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) is occupied by buildings. | ||||||
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| Type： Plains castle (平城) Builder ： 1679 Buildyear ： Tokugawa shogunate | ||||||
| 257．Shinsenen | ||||||
| Shinsenen (神泉苑) is a Shingon Japanese Buddhist temple located south of Nijō Castle in the approximate center of the modern city of Kyoto, Honshu, Japan. It was founded by Kūkai in 824 and predominantly consists of a large water garden centering about a pond. It is said to be the oldest existing garden in Kyoto.[1] | ||||||
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| 258．Sentō Imperial Palace | ||||||
| In Japan, the Sentō Imperial Palace (仙洞御所, Sentō gosho, litt. "Emeritus Imperial Palace")35°1′23.89″N 135°45′47.85″E / 35.0233028°N 135.7632917°E / 35.0233028; 135.7632917 traditionally does not refer to a single location, but to any residence of retired emperors. Before Akihito abdicated in 2019, the last Emperor to retire did so in 1817, so the designation commonly refers to the historical Kyoto Sento Imperial Palace (京都仙洞御所). | ||||||
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| 259．Nijōjō-mae Station | ||||||
| Nijōjō-mae Station (二条城前駅, Nijōjō-mae-eki) is a train station in Nakagyō-ku ward, city of Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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Castle In Osaka Prefecture
| 260．Akutagawayama Castle | ||||||
| Akutagawayama Castle (芥川山城, Akutagawayama-jō) was a Sengoku period mountain-top castle in Takatsuki, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Located on a 182.6 meter mountain.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 1515 Buildyear ： Hosokawa Takakuni | ||||||
| 261．Iimoriyama Castle | ||||||
| Iimoriyama Castle (飯盛山城, Iimoriyama-jō) was a Sengoku period mountain-top castle in Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Located on a 315.9 meter mountain. It was the original base of power for the Miyoshi clan.[1][2] Iimoriyama Castle was built by Kizawa Nagamasa and was later controlled by the Miyoshi clan.[3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 1333-38 Buildyear ： Kizawa Nagamasa | ||||||
| 262．Eboshigata Castle | ||||||
| Eboshigata Castle (烏帽子形城, Eboshigata-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the city of Kawachinagano, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2012.[1] It is also a site registered under Japan Heritage. | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1332 Buildyear ： Kusunoki Masashige | ||||||
| 263．Osaka Castle | ||||||
| Osaka Castle (大坂城 or 大阪城, Ōsaka-jō) is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle and fortress are one of Japan's most famous landmarks and it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1583 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| 264．Kami-Akasaka Castle | ||||||
| Kami-Akasaka Castle (上赤坂城, Kami-Akasaka-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the village of Chihayaakasaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[3] It is also referred to as Kusunoki Castle (楠木城, Kusunoki-jō) or Kiriyama Castle (桐山城, Kiriyama-jō), | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1331 Buildyear ： Kusunoki Masashige | ||||||
| 265．Kishiwada Castle | ||||||
| Kishiwada Castle (岸和田城, Kishiwada-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Kishiwada, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kishiwada Castle was home to the Okabe clan, daimyō of Kishiwada Domain. The Honmaru Garden of the castle is designated as a National Place of Scenic Beauty.[1] The castle is also known as Chikiri Castle (千亀利城, Chikiri-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 266．Shimo-Akasaka Castle | ||||||
| Shimo-Akasaka Castle (下赤坂城, Shimo-Akasaka-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the village of Chihayaakasaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] It is also referred to as simply Akasaka Castle (赤坂城, Akasaka-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1331 Buildyear ： Kusunoki Masashige | ||||||
| 267．Chihaya Castle | ||||||
| Chihaya Castle (千早城, Chihaya-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the village of Chihayaakasaka, Osaka Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1331 Buildyear ： Kusunoki Masashige | ||||||
| 268．Tenrinkaku | ||||||
| The Tenrinkaku (天臨閣) was a shoin structure at Osaka Castle. It was initially known as the Kishū Palace (紀州御殿 Kishū Goten).[1][2][3][4] | ||||||
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| 269．Fukui Castle (Osaka) | ||||||
| Fukui Castle (福井城, Fukui-jō) was a hill top castle located at Ibaraki, Osaka, Japan. It was burned to the ground in 1657. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountain castles Builder ： unknown | ||||||
| 270．Osaka Castle | ||||||
| Osaka Castle (大坂城 or 大阪城, Ōsaka-jō) is a Japanese castle in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. The castle and fortress are one of Japan's most famous landmarks and it played a major role in the unification of Japan during the sixteenth century of the Azuchi-Momoyama period.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1583 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| 271．Osaka Castle Park | ||||||
| Osaka Castle Park (大阪城公園, Osaka-Jō-Kōen) is a public urban park and historical site situated at Osaka-Jō in Chūō-ku, Osaka, Japan. It lies on the south of the Ōkawa (Kyū-Yodo River) and occupies a large area in the center of the city of Osaka. This park is the second largest park in the city. The park was constructed on a site with a long history. In the fifteenth century, a militant temple, Ishiyama Hongan-ji, was built here. In 1583, Toyotomi Hideyoshi destroyed Ishiyama Hongan-ji and built Osaka Castle here. From 1870 to 1945 the Osaka Arsenal used a large area, and it was destroyed at end of World War II. In 1931, Osaka Castle Park was opened to the public, but most of the area was used by the Imperial Japanese Army. After World War II, most of the military complex was removed and replaced by the public urban park. | ||||||
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| Type： Urban park | ||||||
| 272．Ishiyama Hongan-ji | ||||||
| The Ishiyama Hongan-ji (石山本願寺) was the primary fortress of the Ikkō-ikki, leagues of warrior priests and commoners who opposed samurai rule during the Sengoku period. It was established in 1496, at the mouth of the Yodo River, on the coast of the Seto Inland Sea. At the time, this was just outside the remains of the ancient capital of Naniwa, in Settsu Province. In fact, recent archaeological research has determined that the temple was established atop the ruins of the old imperial palace. The city (now called Osaka) has since grown around the site, incorporating the Ishiyama (stone mountain). | ||||||
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| Type： Fortified Buddhist temple Builder ： 1496 Buildyear ： Ikkō sect | ||||||
| 273．Sanada Maru | ||||||
| The Sanada Maru (真田丸 （さなだまる）, Sanada Maru) was a small fortification attached to Osaka castle. It is famous for being impregnable and playing a key role in defending the castle in the winter of 1615. Later, it was forcefully destroyed despite being exempt from the reconciliation condition. | ||||||
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| Buildyear ： Sanada Yukimura | ||||||
| 274．Tenrinkaku | ||||||
| The Tenrinkaku (天臨閣) was a shoin structure at Osaka Castle. It was initially known as the Kishū Palace (紀州御殿 Kishū Goten).[1][2][3][4] | ||||||
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| 275．Toyotomi Hideyoshi | ||||||
| Toyotomi Hideyoshi (豊臣 秀吉, 17 March 1537 – 18 September 1598), otherwise known as Kinoshita Tōkichirō (木下 藤吉郎) and Hashiba Hideyoshi (羽柴 秀吉), was a Japanese samurai and daimyō (feudal lord) of the late Sengoku period and regarded as the second "Great Unifier" of Japan.[1][2] Although he came from a peasant background, his immense power earned him the rank and title of Kampaku (関白, Imperial Regent) and Daijō-daijin (太政大臣, Chancellor of the Realm), the highest official position and title in the nobility class. He was the first person in history to become a Kanpaku who was not born a noble. He then passed the position and title of Kampaku to his nephew, Toyotomi Hidetsugu. He remained in power as Taikō (太閤), the title of retired Kampaku, until his death. It is believed, but not certain, that the reason he refused or could not obtain the title of shogun (征夷大将軍), the leader of the warrior class, was because he was of peasant origin.[3][4] | ||||||
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| 276．Toyotomi Hideyori | ||||||
| Toyotomi Hideyori (豊臣 秀頼, August 28, 1593 - June 4, 1615) was the son and designated successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the general who first united all of Japan. His mother, Yodo-dono, was the niece of Oda Nobunaga. | ||||||
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| 277．Hōkoku Shrine (Osaka) | ||||||
| Hōkoku Shrine (豊國神社, Hōkoku-jinja) is a Shinto shrine located in Osaka, Japan. It is one of several Toyokuni shrines built in honor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It is part of the Osaka Castle Park. | ||||||
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| 278．Yodo-dono | ||||||
| Yodo-dono (淀殿) or Yodogimi (淀君) (1569 – June 4, 1615), also known as Lady Chacha (茶々), was a Japanese historical figure in the late Sengoku period. She was the concubine and the second wife of Japanese ruler Toyotomi Hideyoshi. As the mother of his son and successor Hideyori, she actively acted as Hideyori's guardian in the restoration of the Toyotomi clan after the fall of the Council of Five Elders, and alongside her son, led the last anti-Tokugawa shogunate resistance in the siege of Osaka. | ||||||
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Castle In Hyōgo Prefecture
| 279．Akashi Castle | ||||||
| Akashi Castle (明石城, Akashi-jō) was an Edo period Japanese castle located in the city of Akashi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was also known as Kiharu Castle (喜春城, Kiharu-jō) or Kinkō Castle (錦江城, Kinkō-jō). Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1617 to 1619 Buildyear ： Ogasawara Tadazane | ||||||
| 280．Akō Castle | ||||||
| Akō Castle (赤穂城, Akō-jō) is a flatland Japanese castle located in the city of Akō, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Built by the Asano clan in the Edo period, it was the center of Akō Domain in western Harima Province. The castle was designated a National Historic Site in 1971, with the area under protection expanded in 2003.[1] Within the castle grounds is the Nagayamon gate to the residence of Ōishi Kuranosuke, the karō of the domain under Asano Naganori. The house itself no longer exists, but its location has a separate National Historic Site designation.[2] Both the Honmaru Garden and the Ni-no-Maru Gardens have been restored to an approximation of their appearance in the Edo period, and are collectively designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 2021.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style castle Builder ： 1615 Buildyear ： Asano Naganao | ||||||
| 281．Amagasaki Castle | ||||||
| Amagasaki Castle (尼崎城, Amagasaki-jō) was a flatland type Japanese castle located in the city of Amagasaki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The castle was the headquarters of Amagasaki Domain, which ruled this portion of northern Settsu Province under the Tokugawa shogunate of Edo Period Japan. The castle was destroyed in the early Meiji period, but a portion was reconstructed in 2018.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle) Builder ： 1617 Buildyear ： Toda Ujikane | ||||||
| 282．Arikoyama Castle | ||||||
| Arikoyama Castle (有子山城, Arikoyama-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Izushi neighborhood of the city of Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins, along with the ruins of nearby Konosumiyama Castle have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934 under the designation "Yamana clan castle ruins"[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 1574 Buildyear ： Yamana Toyosuke | ||||||
| 283．Izushi Castle | ||||||
| Izushi Castle (出石城, Izushi-jō) is a yamashiro, or castle situated on a hill, located in Izushi, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. | ||||||
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| 284．Itami Castle | ||||||
| Itami Castle (伊丹城, Itami-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in Kawabe District of northern Settsu Province (what is now the city of Itami, Hyōgo Prefecture), Japan. It is also called Arioka Castle (有岡城 or 在岡城, Arioka-jō).Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1979.[1] The ruins of the castle are located just in front of today's Itami Station. | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： Nanboku-chō period Buildyear ： Itami clan | ||||||
| 285．Okishio Castle | ||||||
| Okioshio Castle (置塩城, Okioshio-jō) is the remains of a Muromachi period Japanese castle structure located in the city of Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site as one of the Remains of Akamatsu-shi Castles, combining both Shirahata Castle and Kanjōsan Castle, since 1996.[1] [2] It is also referred to as "Ojio Castle" after an alternative pronunciation of the kanji in its name. | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 1469 Buildyear ： Akamatsu Masanori | ||||||
| 286．Kanjōsan Castle | ||||||
| Kanjōsan Castle (感状山城, Kanjōsan-jō) is the remains of a Muromachi period Japanese castle structure located in the city of Himeji, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site as one of the Remains of Akamatsu-shi Castles, combining both Shirahata Castle and Okishio Castle, since 1996.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： Kamakura period | ||||||
| 287．Kuroi Castle | ||||||
| Kuroi Castle (黒井城, Kuroi-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now the Kasuga-cho neighborhood of the city of Tamba Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.[1] It was also called Hogetsu Castle (保月城, Hogetsu-jō) or Hōzuki Castle (保築城, Hōzuki-jō). Famous as the birthplace of Lady Kasuga, the wet nurse of Tokugawa Iemitsu,[2] it ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1989.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 14c Buildyear ： Akamatsu Norisada | ||||||
| 288．Konosumiyama Castle | ||||||
| Konosumiyama Castle (此隅山城, Konosumiyama-jō) was a Muromachi to Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Izushi neighborhood of the city of Toyooka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins, along with the ruins of nearby Arikoyama Castle have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1934 under the designation "Yamana clan castle ruins".[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 15th century Buildyear ： Yamana Sozen | ||||||
| 289．Sasayama Castle | ||||||
| Sasayama Castle (篠山城, Sasayama-jō) is an early Edo Period Japanese castle located in the city of Tamba-Sasayama, Hyōgo, Japan. It ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1956.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1608 Buildyear ： Matsudaira Yasushige | ||||||
| 290．Shirahata Castle | ||||||
| Shirahata Castle (白旗城, Shirahata-jō) is the remains of a Muromachi period Japanese castle structure located in the town of Kamigōri, Akō District, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.[1] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site as one of the Remains of Akamatsu-shi Castles, combining both Okishio Castle and Kanjōsan Castle, since 1996.[2][3] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 1336 Buildyear ： Akamatsu Enshin | ||||||
| 291．Sumoto Castle | ||||||
| Sumoto Castle (洲本城, Sumoto-jō) was a Muromachi to Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Orodani neighborhood of the city of Sumoto, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1999.[1] It was also referred to as Mikuma Castle (三熊城). | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1526 | ||||||
| 292．Takeda Castle | ||||||
| Takeda Castle (竹田城, Takeda-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Wadayama neighborhood of the city of Asago, in the northern part of Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan.[1] It is located north of Himeji, and north-west of Kyoto, and is situated some 353 metres above sea level[2] It is often referred to locally as the "Machu Picchu of Japan".[3] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1943. [4] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop-style castle Builder ： c.1441 Buildyear ： Otagaki Mitsukage | ||||||
| 293．Himeji Castle | ||||||
| Himeji Castle (姫路城, Himeji-jō) ([çimeʑiꜜʑoː] ⓘ) is a hilltop Japanese castle complex situated in Himeji, a city in the Hyōgo Prefecture of Japan. The castle is regarded as the finest surviving example of prototypical Japanese castle architecture, comprising a network of 83 rooms with advanced defensive systems from the feudal period.[7] The castle is frequently known as Hakuro-jō or Shirasagi-jō ("White Egret Castle" or "White Heron Castle") because of its brilliant white exterior and supposed resemblance to a bird taking flight.[6][8] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle[1] Builder ： 1333, 1300 (Himeyama fort/castle)[3] 1581 (expansion)[3] 1601–1609 (expansion)[3] 1617–1618 (expansion)[4][5] Buildyear ： Akamatsu Norimura (1333–1346)[3] Toyotomi Hideyoshi (1581)[3] Ikeda Terumasa (1601–1609)[3] Honda Tadamasa (1617–1618)[4] | ||||||
| 294．Miki Castle | ||||||
| Miki Castle (三木城,, Miki-jō) was a Japanese castle in Miki, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was built by Bessho Nagaharu in the Sengoku period. Today some ruins and a partial reconstruction remain at the castle site, and its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2013.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 1492 Buildyear ： Bessho Nagaharu | ||||||
| 295．Yakami Castle | ||||||
| Yakami Castle (八上城, Yakami-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Tamba-Sasayama Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005.[1] The castle was one of the largest in Tanba Province, along with Kuroi Castle and Yagi Castle. It was the original base of power for the Hatano clan.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style castle Builder ： 1508 Buildyear ： Hatano Motokiyo | ||||||
| 296．Yagi Castle | ||||||
| Yagi Castle (八木城, Yagi-jō) is a late Kamakura period Japanese castle located in the Yōka neighborhood of the city of Yabu, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1997.[1] The ruins are regarded as historically important, as the site includes the traces of a Kamakura period feudal mansion, Muromachi period mountain castle with clay walls, and the ruins of a Sengoku period castle with stone walls. | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1063 | ||||||
| 297．Rikan Castle | ||||||
| Rikan Castle (利神城, Rikan-jō) was a Nanboku-chō to Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Hirafuku neighborhood of the town of Sayō, in far western Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2017.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1349 |
Castle In Nara Prefecture
| 298．Uda Matsuyama Castle | ||||||
| Uda Matsuyama Castle (宇陀松山城, Uda Matsuyama-jō) is a castle structure in Uda, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site.[1] In 1600, Fukushima Masanori's younger brother Fukushima Takaharu became the lord of the castle.[1][2] The castle was demolished by Tokugawa shogunate`s one country one castle rule in 1615.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style castle Builder ： 15C Buildyear ： Akiyama clan | ||||||
| 299．Kōriyama Castle | ||||||
| 34°39′6.9″N 135°46′44.18″E / 34.651917°N 135.7789389°E / 34.651917; 135.7789389 Kōriyama Castle (郡山城, Kōriyama-jō) is a Japanese castle in what is now the city of Yamatokōriyama, Nara Prefecture, Japan. The Sengoku daimyō Tsutsui Junkei started construction of the castle, and Toyotomi Hidenaga made it his residence.[1] In the Edo period, it became the headquarters of the Kōriyama Domain. During this time it was held by members of the Mizuno, Okudaira Matsudaira, Honda, Fujii Matsudaira, and Yanagisawa clans. | ||||||
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| 300．Shigisan Castle | ||||||
| Shigisan castle (信貴山城, Shigisanjō) was a Japanese castle of the Sengoku period, controlled by the Kizawa and Matsunaga clans. There are little remains of the castle on the present day site, just some moats and earthworks.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-type Japanese castle Builder ： 1536 Buildyear ： Kizawa Nagamasa | ||||||
| 301．Takatori Castle | ||||||
| Takatori Castle was a 14th-century Japanese castle, now in ruins, in Takatori, Nara Prefecture.[1][2] | ||||||
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| 302．Yagyū Castle | ||||||
| Yagyū Castle (柳生城, Yagyū-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Nara, Nara Prefecture. Yagyū castle was constructed by the Yagyū clan in the Nanboku-chō period and became a home castle of the Yagyū clan.[1] In 1544, the castle was attacked by Tsutsui Junkei's force and defeated.[1] Later, Yagyū clan was approved as the main domain of Yagyū in Yamato by Oda Nobunaga.[1] In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seized the territories of the Yagyū clan.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayamajiro-style castle Builder ： Nanboku-chō period Buildyear ： Yagyū clan |
Castle In Wakayama Prefecture
| 303．Shingū Castle | ||||||
| Shingū Castle (新宮城, Shingū-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Shingū, southern Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Shingū Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Mizuno clan, hereditary karō of Kishū Domain.[1][2][3] Its ruins, along with the clan cemetery for the Mizuno clan, were designated a National Historic Site in 2003.[4] The castle is also called the Tankaku-jō (丹鶴城) or the Okimi-jō (沖見城). | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1618 Buildyear ： Asano Tadayoshi | ||||||
| 304．Wakayama Castle | ||||||
| Wakayama Castle (和歌山城, Wakayama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city Wakayama, Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. For most of the Edo Period, it was the administrative center of Kishū Domain, which was controlled by a cadet branch of the Tokugawa clan. Due to its size and status, Wakayama Castle was ranked as one of the most important castles under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was designated a National Historic Site in 1931,[1] and its Nishi-no-Maru Garden was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 1987.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayamashiro (hilltop castle) Builder ： 1585-1586 Buildyear ： Toyotomi Hidenaga |
Castle In Tottori Prefecture
| 305．Odaka Castle | ||||||
| Odaka Castle (尾高城, Odaka-jō)) is the remains of a castle structure in Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, Japan. The castle was used by Yukimatsu clan as their main bastion.[2] Later, the castle was expanded and improved the defences by the Mōri clan's vassal Sugihara Morishige.[2] It is said that Yamanaka Yukimori was captured and put in prison in the castle but later he succeeded in escape from the castle.[3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro castle Builder ： Kamakura period | ||||||
| 306．Shikano Castle | ||||||
| Shikano Castle (鹿野城, Shikano jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located in the SHikano neighborhood of the city of Tottori, Tottori Prefecture, in the San'in region of western Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： hirayama-style Japanese castle | ||||||
| 307．Tottori Castle | ||||||
| Tottori Castle (鳥取城, Tottori-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Tottori, Tottori Prefecture in the San'in Region of western Japan. It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957 with the area under protection expanded in 1987. The Historical Site designation also includes the Taikōganaru (太閤ヶ平) fortification erected by Toyotomi Hideyoshi during the 1581 Siege of Tottori.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1532-1555 | ||||||
| 308．Tottori Domain Battery Sites | ||||||
| The Tottori Domain Battery Sites (鳥取藩台場跡, Tottori-han Daiba-ato) were a group of eight Bakumatsu period coastal artillery batteries erected by Tottori Domain on the Sea of Japan coast in what is now Tottori Prefecture in the San'in region of northern Japan. The ruins of six of the eight sites remain; four of which were collectively designated a National Historic Site in 1988 with the additional sites added to the designation in 2016.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： fortification Builder ： 1864 | ||||||
| 309．Tenjinyama Castle (Inaba) | ||||||
| Tenjinyama Castle (天神山城, Tenjinyama-jō) also known as Fuse-Tenjinyama Castle is the remains of a castle structure in Tottori (city), Tottori Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a Prefectural Historic Sites.[1] The castle was the Shogosho (Shugo daimyo's residence or main bastion) of the Inaba Yamana clan.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Okajiro-style castle Builder ： 1446 Buildyear ： Inaba Yamana clan | ||||||
| 310．Yonago Castle | ||||||
| Yonago Castle (米子城, Yonago-jō) was an Edo period Japanese castle located in the city of Yonago, Tottori Prefecture, in the San'in region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2006.[1] It was also called Kume Castle (久米城) or Minatoyama Castle (湊山城), | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Buildyear ： Kikkawa Hiroi | ||||||
| 311．Wakasa Oniga Castle | ||||||
| Wakasa Oniga Castle (若桜鬼ヶ城, Wakasa Oniga-jō) was a Sengoku period mountain-top Japanese castle located in what is now the town of Wakasa, Tottori Prefecture, in the San'in region of Japan. The ruins of the castle were designated a National Historic Site in 2008.[1][2][3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： mountaintop-style castle Builder ： 13C Buildyear ： Yabe clan |
Castle In Shimane Prefecture
| 312．Gassantoda Castle | ||||||
| Gassantoda Castle (月山富田城, Gassantoda-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in Izumo Province, in what is now part of the city of Yasugi, Shimane Prefecture in the San'in region of far western Japan. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 19３４.[1] Gassantoda Castle was built using whole of Mount Gassan's ridges and valleys, and is regarded as one of the five largest and most important medieval mountain castle along with Kasugayama Castle (Niigata), Nanao Castle (Ishikawa), Odani Castle and Kannonji Castle (Shiga). | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1396; 628 years ago (1396) Buildyear ： Sasaki Yoshikiyo | ||||||
| 313．Tsuwano Castle | ||||||
| Tsuwano Castle (津和野城, Tsuwano-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Tsuwano, Shimane Prefecture, in the San'in region of far western Japan. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1942.[1] In its early history, it was called Sanbonmatsu Castle (三本松城, Sanbonmatsu-jō) or Ipponmatsu Castle (一本松城, Ipponmatsu-jō). During the Edo Period, it was the center of Tsuwano Domain ruled by the Kamei clan; however, the administrative offices and daimyō residence were located at the base of the mountain to avoid the steep mountain paths. | ||||||
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| Type： Renkakushiki yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1295 Buildyear ： Yoshimi clan | ||||||
| 314．Nanao Castle (Iwami) | ||||||
| Nanao Castle (七尾城, Nanao jō) was a Muromachi period yamajiro-stype Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, in the San'in region of western Japan. Its ruins been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2004 together with the Miyake Odoi fortified residence as the "Masuda clan fortification ruins".[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1193 Buildyear ： Masuda clan | ||||||
| 315．Hamada Castle | ||||||
| Hamada Castle (浜田城, Hamada-jō) is a castle structure in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Gokoku shrine(Formerly Shokonsha) Builder ： 1620 Buildyear ： Furuta Shigeharu | ||||||
| 316．Matsue Castle | ||||||
| Matsue Castle (松江城, Matsue-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Matsue, Shimane Prefecture. Matsue Castle was constructed from 1607 to 1611 by Horio Yoshiharu, the first daimyō of the Matsue Domain, during the early Edo period. Ownership was passed to the Izumo branch of the Kyōgoku in 1633 and then the Matsudaira, a junior branch of the ruling Tokugawa clan, in 1637. The Matsudaira donated Matsue Castle to the city of Matsue in 1927. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1607–1611; 413 years ago (1611) Buildyear ： Horio Yoshiharu | ||||||
| 317．Miyake Odoi Site | ||||||
| Miyake-Odoi Site (三宅御土居跡, Miyake-Odoi ato) is an archaeological site with the traces of a Muromachi period fortified residence, located in what is now the Miyake neighborhood of the city of Masuda, Shimane Prefecture, in the San'in region of western Japan. Its ruins been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2004 together with the Nanao Castle ruins as the "Masuda clan fortification ruins".[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1193 Buildyear ： Masuda clan |
Castle In Okayama Prefecture
| 318．Ōmeguri-Komeguri Mountain Castle | ||||||
| Ōmeguri-Komeguri Mountain Castle (大廻小廻山城, Ōmeguri-Komeguri yamajirō) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in what is now the Kusakabe neighborhood of Higashi-ku of the city of Okayama, Okayama Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) Builder ： c.7th century | ||||||
| 319．Okayama Castle | ||||||
| Okayama Castle (岡山城, Okayama-jō) is a Japanese castle in the city of Okayama in Okayama Prefecture in Japan. The main tower was completed in 1597,[1] destroyed in 1945 and replicated in concrete in 1966. Two of the watch towers survived the bombing of 1945 and are now listed by the national Agency for Cultural Affairs as Important Cultural Properties. | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1346-1369 (Nawa clan)rebuilt 1590-1597 (Ukita Hideie)replica donjon completed 1966 | ||||||
| 320．Kameyama Castle (Okayama) | ||||||
| Kameyama Castle (沼城, Kameyama-jō), also well known as Numa Castle, is the remains of a castle structure in Higashi-ku, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as an Okayama City Designated Historic Site.[1] The castle was bulit by Nakayama Nobutada in the Tenbun period (1532–1555).[2] In 1559, Ukita Naoie killed Nakayama Nobumasa by order of Uragami Munekage.[3] Then Naoie moved Ukita clan's main bastion from Shinjōyama castle.[4] Naoie expanded his territory based in the castle.[3][5] In 1570, Naoie started remodeling Okayama castle and moved from the castle in 1573.[3][6][1] | ||||||
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| Type： Okajiro-style castle Builder ： 16c Buildyear ： Nakayama Nobumasa | ||||||
| 321．Ki castle | ||||||
| Ki castle (鬼ノ城, Ki no jō) was an ancient kōgoishi type castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in the city of Sōja, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1986.[1] Portions of the castle were reconstructed in the early 2000s. | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) Builder ： c.7th century Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 322．Takakoshi Castle | ||||||
| Takakoshi Castle (高越城, Takakoshi-jō) also well known as Takakoshi-yama Castle is the remains of a castle structure in Ibara, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. The castle was built in the Nanboku-chō period against a possible invasion of Kublai Khan's force.[2] It has been said that Hōjō Sōun was born in the castle[3] and he lived in the castle until he started serving the Ashikaga Shogunate.[4] After the fall of the Ise clan, Takakoshi castle was controlled by the Mōri clan.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 13c Buildyear ： Utsunomiya Sadatsuna | ||||||
| 323．Takamatsu Castle (Bitchū) | ||||||
| Takamatsu Castle (高松城, Takamatsu-jō) of Bitchū Province was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is today the Kayo neighborhood of Kita-ku, Okayama in Okayama Prefecture.[1] The style of the castle was a hirajō (flatland castle) with no stone walls, but only earthen walls. The castle was surrounded by marshes, which formed a natural moat. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1902.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： late 16th century Buildyear ： Mimura clan | ||||||
| 324．Tsuyama Castle | ||||||
| Tsuyama Castle (Japanese: 津山城, Hepburn: Tsuyama-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the Sange neighborhood of the city of Tsuyama, Okayama Prefecture, in the San'in region of Japan. Tsuyama considered one of Japan's three major hirayama (平山城 hilltop) style castles along with Himeji Castle and Matsuyama Castle, which were all constructed around the same time. During the Edo period, Tsuyama castle served as the primary residence of the daimyō of the Tsuyama Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also called Kakuzan Castle (鶴山城, Kakuzan-jō). It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1963.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Teikaku-style hirayama castle Builder ： 1441–1444; major expansions 1603–1616 Buildyear ： Yamana clan (original); Mori Tadamasa (1603) | ||||||
| 325．Tenjinyama Castle (Bizen) | ||||||
| Tenjinyama Castle (天神山城, Tenjinyama-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Wake, Okayama Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a Prefectural Historic Sites.[1] The castle was built by Urakami Munekage.[2][3] Munekage expanded his territory base in the castle.[2] But in 1575, Tenjinyama castle was attacked by Ukita Naoie who was former senior vassal of Munekage and Munekage escaped to Harima.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 1554 Buildyear ： Urakami Munekage | ||||||
| 326．Fukuyama Castle (Sōja) | ||||||
| Fukuyama Castle (福山城, Fukuyama-jō) of Bitchū Province was a Nanboku-chō period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today the Kiyonemiyori neighborhood of the city of Sōja in Okayama Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1936.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1335 Buildyear ： Shō Kanesuke | ||||||
| 327．Bitchū Matsuyama Castle | ||||||
| Bitchū Matsuyama Castle (備中松山城, Bitchū Matsuyama-jō), also known as Takahashi Castle (高梁城), is a Japanese castle located in the city of Takahashi, Okayama Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. It is not to be confused with Matsuyama Castle in Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture. Along with having one of only twelve remaining original tenshu (main keeps) in the country, Bitchū Matsuyama Castle is notable as the castle with the highest elevation above sea level in Japan at 430 meters (1410 ft).[1] It has been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1956.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro castle Builder ： 1331, rebuilt early Edo Period |
Castle In Hiroshima Prefecture
| 328．Ogurayama Castle | ||||||
| Ogurayama Castle (小倉山城, Ogurayama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1986 as part of the "Kikkawa clan fortification ruins" along with Surugamaru Castle and Hinoyama Castle.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1380 Buildyear ： Kikkawa Tsunemi | ||||||
| 329．Kagamiyama Castle (Higashihiroshima) | ||||||
| Kagamiyama Castle (鏡山城, Kagamiyama-jō) was a yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today part of the city of Higashihiroshima in Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： Nanboku-chō period Buildyear ： Ouchi clan | ||||||
| 330．Suzuo Castle | ||||||
| Suzuo Castle (鈴尾城) was the main castle of the Fukubara clan. It is located in Fukubara of Akitakata, Hiroshima, in what used to be Aki Province. It is also known as "Fukubara Castle" (福原城).[1] It is also famous as the birthplace of the warlord Mōri Motonari.[2][3][4] | ||||||
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| 331．Surugamaru Castle | ||||||
| Surugamaru Castle (駿河丸城, Surugamaru-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1986 as part of the "Kikkawa clan fortification ruins" along with Ogurayama Castle and Hinoyama Castle.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1331 Buildyear ： Kikkawa Tsunetaka | ||||||
| 332．Takayama Castle (Mihara) | ||||||
| Takayama Castle (高山城, Takayama-jō) of Aki Province was a yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today the Hongō neighborhood of the city of Mihara in Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1206 Buildyear ： Kobayakawa Shigehira | ||||||
| 333．Tajihi-Sarugake Castle | ||||||
| Tajihi-Sarugake Castle (多治比猿掛城, Tajihi-Sarugake-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site together with Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle since 1940.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1560 Buildyear ： Mōri Hiromoto | ||||||
| 334．Niitakayama Castle | ||||||
| Niitakayama Castle (新高山城, Niitakayama-jō) of Aki Province was a yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today the Hongō neighborhood of the city of Mihara in Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1552 Buildyear ： Kobayakawa Takakage | ||||||
| 335．Hinoyama Castle | ||||||
| Hinoyama Castle (日野山城, Hinoyama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the town of Kitahiroshima, Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1940 as part of the Kikkawa clan castle ruins.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1550 Buildyear ： Kikkawa Motoharu, | ||||||
| 336．Fukuyama Castle | ||||||
| Fukuyama Castle (福山城, Fukuyama-jō), sometimes called Hisamatsu Castle (久松城, Hisamatsu-jō) or Iyō Castle (葦陽城, Iyō-jō) was the castle of the Bingo-Fukuyama Han during the Edo period[1] of Japanese history. The grounds of the castle have been designate a National Historic Site since 1964. [2][3] The castle is located in Fukuyama Park in Fukuyama, Hiroshima near Fukuyama Station. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1619-1622, rebuilt 1966 Buildyear ： Mizuno Katsunari | ||||||
| 337．Mihara Castle | ||||||
| Mihara Castle (三原城, Mihara-jō) was a hirajiro-style Japanese castle located in what is today the city of Mihara in Hiroshima Prefecture. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamashiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1567 Buildyear ： Kobayakawa Takakage | ||||||
| 338．Miyao Castle | ||||||
| Miyao Castle (宮尾城, miyao-jō) was a fortification built on the island of Itsukushima (also known as Miyajima) during the Sengoku Period in Japan. Although referred to as a Japanese castle, it did not have a donjon (tenshu) or serve as the residence of a land-holding noble, and therefore is probably more within the definition of a hill fort, rather than a true castle.[1] Built by Mōri Motonari, Miyao Castle was part of a greater plan to bait and trap his enemy, Sue Harukata, which culminated in the Battle of Miyajima in 1555. | ||||||
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| Type： Hill-on-Plains castle (平山城) Builder ： 1555 (1555) Buildyear ： Mōri Motonari | ||||||
| 339．Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle | ||||||
| Yoshida-Kōriyama Castle (吉田郡山城, Yoshida-Kōriyama-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Akitakata, Hiroshima Prefecture. It was also called Aki-Kōriyama Castle (安芸郡山城, Aki-Kōriyama-jō) from its location in former Aki Province. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1940.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop style Japanese castle Buildyear ： Mōri Motonari | ||||||
| 340．Hiroshima Castle | ||||||
| Hiroshima Castle (広島城, Hiroshima-jō), sometimes called Carp Castle (鯉城, Rijō), is a castle in Hiroshima, Japan that was the residence of the daimyō (feudal lord) of the Hiroshima Domain. The castle was originally constructed in the 1590s, but was largely destroyed by the atomic bombing on August 6, 1945. The main keep was rebuilt in 1958, a replica of the original that now serves as a museum of Hiroshima's history before World War II, and other castle buildings have been reconstructed since. | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1592–1599 (original)1958 (reconstruction) Buildyear ： Mōri Terumoto | ||||||
| 341．Miiri-Takamatsu Castle | ||||||
| Miiri-Takamatsu Castle (三入高松城, Miiri-Takamatsu -jō)) is the remains of a castle structure in Asakita-ku, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. It is located on a 339-meter mountain. One of the 18 Generals of Mōri, Kumagai Nobunao was commander of the castle.[1] In the Sengoku period, Kumagai clan moved their main bastion from Isegatsubo Castle to the castle since Isegatsubo Castle was considered unsuitable to withstanding a siege, and used the castle until Mōri clan moved to Suō Province.[2][3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： Muromachi period Buildyear ： Kumagai clan |
Castle In Yamaguchi Prefecture
| 342．Iwakisan Kōgoishi | ||||||
| Iwakisan Kōgoishi (石城山神籠石) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in the city of Hikari, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： Asuka Period Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 343．Iwakuni Castle | ||||||
| Iwakuni Castle (岩国城, Iwakunijō) is a replica castle in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi, Japan. The nearby Kintai Bridge was originally a footbridge over the Nishiki River to the main gate of the castle. | ||||||
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| 344．Ōuchi-shi Yakata | ||||||
| Ōuchi-shi Yakata (大内氏館, Ōuchi-shi Yakata) was the fortified residence of the Ōuchi clan in Yamaguchi, Japan. Ōuchi-shi Yakata has been designated as a National Historic Sites along with Ryōun-ji temple.[1][2][3] It was a base of the Ōuchi clan who were feudal lords and thrived during the Muromachi period to Sengoku period.[2] Its ruins have been protected as a nationally designated historic site. | ||||||
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| Type： Flatstyle castle Builder ： 14C Buildyear ： Ōuchi Hiroyo or Ōuchi Norihiro | ||||||
| 345．Kōnomine Castle | ||||||
| Kōnomine Castle (高嶺城, Kōnomine-jō) is a castle structure in Yamaguchi, Japan. It is located on a 338 meter mountain.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1556 Buildyear ： Ōuchi Yoshinaga | ||||||
| 346．Hagi Castle | ||||||
| Hagi Castle (萩城, Hagi-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Hagi, Yamaguchi Prefecture, in the San'yō region of Japan. Built in 1604 at the beginning of the Edo period as the main castle of the Mōri clan, it served as the seat of the Chōshū Domain for over 250 years until 1863. It was demolished in 1874 shortly after the Meiji Restoration. Its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1924.[1] Hagi Castle has been designed as a component of the Sites of Japan's Meiji Industrial Revolution: Iron and Steel, Shipbuilding and Coal Mining, which received UNESCO World Heritage Site status in 2015.[2] | ||||||
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| 347．Wakayama Castle (Suō) | ||||||
| Wakayama Castle (若山城, Wakayama-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a Prefectural Historic Sites.[1][2] It is located on a 217 meter mountain.[2][3] Wakayama castle was built by the Sue clan, one of the most important retainers of the Ōuchi clan and became a home castle of the Sue clan in the Sengoku period.[4][5] Sue Harukata improved and strengthened the castle before the Tainei-ji incident.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Yamajiro-style castle Builder ： 15c Buildyear ： Sue clan |
Castle In Tokushima Prefecture
| 348．Ichinomiya Castle | ||||||
| Ichinomiya Castle is a mountaintop castle in Tokushima, Japan. | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1338 Buildyear ： Ogasawara clan | ||||||
| 349．Shōzui Castle | ||||||
| Shōzui Castle (勝瑞城, Shōzui-jō) was a Muromachi to Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the town of Aizumi, Itano District, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2001, with the area under protection expanded in 2015.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： flatland-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.12th century Buildyear ： Ogasawara Nagakiyo | ||||||
| 350．Tokushima Castle | ||||||
| Tokushima Castle (徳島城, Tokushima-jō) was an Edo period Japanese castle located in the city of Tokushima, Tokushima Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1957.[1] Its Omotegoten Gardens are designated a national Place of Scenic Beauty.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1601-1602 Buildyear ： Hachisuka Iemasa |
Castle In Kagawa Prefecture
| 351．Amagiri Castle | ||||||
| Amagiri Castle (天霧城, Amagiri-jō) was a Muromachi period Japanese castle located on the border of what is now the cities of Zentsūji and Mitoyo and the town of Tadotsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1990.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1364 Buildyear ： Kagawa Kagenori | ||||||
| 352．Katsuga Castle | ||||||
| Katsuga Castle (勝賀城, Katsuga-jō) was a castle structure in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. The castle has been designated as Takamatsu city's Historic site.[2] Kōzai clan's fortified residence Saryō Castle is located under the Katsuga castle.[3] Katuga castle was built by the Kōzai clan, one of the most powerful clans along with Sogō clan in the Sanuki Province and the castle became Kōzai clan's main castle for nearly 360 years.[4][2][5] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 1221[1] Buildyear ： Kōzai Sukemura | ||||||
| 353．Kiyama (Kagawa) | ||||||
| Kiyama (城山, Kiyama) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in the city of Sakaide, Kagawa, Japan, and extending partly into the neighboring city of Marugame.[1][2] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951.[3] It is also known as Shiroyama Castle or Sanuki-Shiroyama Castle. | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： 668-670 Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 354．Takamatsu Castle (Sanuki) | ||||||
| Takamatsu Castle (高松城, Takamatsu-jō) is a Japanese castle located in central Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, on the island of Shikoku, Japan. It is also called Tamamo Castle (玉藻城, Tamamo-jō), literally "seaweed castle," for its seawater moats. The castle was headquarters of the Takamatsu Domain, which ruled eastern Sanuki Province (modern-day Kagawa) from 1588 to 1869. It is now a park. The castle site has been a National Historic Site since 1955.[1] This castle is one of three in Japan to use seawater moats, along with Imabari Castle in Ehime Prefecture and Nakatsu Castle in Ōita Prefecture. | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1588 (1588) Buildyear ： Ikoma Chikamasa | ||||||
| 355．Hiketa Castle | ||||||
| Hiketa Castle (引田城, Hiketa-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now part of the city of Higashikagawa, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3] Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2020.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama style castle Builder ： Sengoku period Buildyear ： Unknown | ||||||
| 356．Marugame Castle | ||||||
| Marugame Castle (丸亀城, Marugame-jō) is an Edo Period Japanese castle in the city of Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan. It is located in the center of Marugame city, in former Sanuki Province on the island of Shikoku. During the Edo Period, it was the center of Marugame Domain, ruled by the tozama Kyōgoku clan under the Tokugawa Shogunate. The castle site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1953.[1] Marugame Castle is one of only a dozen Japanese castles to have an original wooden 'tenshu' built before 1860.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayamashiro (hilltop castle) Buildyear ： Nara Motoyasu |
Castle In Ehime Prefecture
| 357．Imabari Castle | ||||||
| Imabari Castle (今治城, Imabari-jō) is a Japanese castle in Imabari, Ehime, Japan. It was the center of Imabari Domain under the Edo Period Tokugawa shogunate and was ruled by a branch of the HisamatsuーMatsudaira clan through most of its history. This castle is well known as one of the three Mizujiro, or "Castles on the sea", in Japan, along with Takamatsu Castle in Kagawa Prefecture and Nakatsu Castle in Ōita Prefecture.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1602-1606 Buildyear ： Tōdō Takatora | ||||||
| 358．Uwajima Castle | ||||||
| Uwajima Castle (宇和島城, Uwajima-jō) is a hirayama-jiro Japanese castle located in the city of Uwajima, Ehime, Japan. An alternate name for this castle is Tsurushima-jō. The castle is one of twelve Japanese castles to still have its historical tenshu.[1] Its has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1937.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle) Builder ： 1596–1601 Buildyear ： Tōdō Takatora | ||||||
| 359．Einōsan Castle | ||||||
| Einōsan Castle (永納山城, Einōsan-jō) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) located in the city of Saijō, Ehime, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005 with the area under protection expanded in 2007.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) Builder ： c.7th century | ||||||
| 360．Ōzu Castle | ||||||
| Ōzu Castle (大洲城, Ōzu-jō), also known as Jizōgatake Castle (地蔵ヶ嶽城, Jizō-ga-take-jō), is a castle located in Ōzu, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Early defensive structures date back to early 14th century by Utsunomiya Toyofusa. In 1888 deterioration of the castle keep (天守, tenshu) led to its demolition, but it was accurately re-constructed in 2004. | ||||||
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| 361．Kagomori Castle | ||||||
| Kagomori Castle (河後森城, Kagomori-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in the Matsumaru neighborhood of the town of Matsuno, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1997.[1][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Mountaintop castle Builder ： 12C Buildyear ： Watanabe clan | ||||||
| 362．Noshima | ||||||
| Noshima (能島) is a small, uninhabited island within the Geiyo Islands of the Japanese Inland Sea. Administratively, it forms part of the city of Imabari, Ehime Prefecture. In the late mediaeval period, the island was occupied by Noshima Castle and, together with the surrounding area, was the base of the Noshima Murakami, one of the three main houses of the Murakami kaizoku.[3][4] In his Historia de Iapam, Luís Fróis described Noximadono (i.e., the lord of Noshima) as o mayor corsario de todo Japaõ, "the greatest corsair in all Japan".[1][5][6] The island castle, together with tiny Taizakijima immediately to the south,[2] has been designated a National Historic Site,[7] and is an element of Japan Heritage "Story" #036,[8] while Noshima is also afforded protection as a Class I Special Zone within Setonaikai National Park.[9] There is no scheduled service to the island, which may be approached by a vessel chartered from Miyakubo Port (宮窪港) on nearby Ōshima.[1] | ||||||
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| 363．Matsuyama Castle (Iyo) | ||||||
| Matsuyama Castle (松山城, Matsuyama-jō) is a "flatland-mountain"-style Japanese castle that was built in 1603 on Mount Katsuyama, in the city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, Japan. The castle is one of twelve Japanese castles to still have its original tenshu. The castle has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1952.[1] It is also called Iyo-Matsuyama Castle to disambiguate it from Bitchū Matsuyama Castle in Okayama. Tsuyama Castle and Himeji Castle were also built in a similar style around the same time period. | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1603 Buildyear ： Kato Yoshiaki | ||||||
| 364．Yuzuki Castle | ||||||
| Yuzuki Castle (湯築城, Yuzuki-jō) was a former Japanese castle located in the city of Matsuyama, Ehime Prefecture, Japan. During the Muromachi period, it was the stronghold of the Kōno clan, who ruled Iyo Province under the Muromachi shogunate. The ruins of the castle were area designated a National Historic Site.[1][2][3] | ||||||
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| Type： Teikakushiki hirayama-style Japanese castle) Builder ： c.1335 Buildyear ： Konō clan |
Castle In Kōchi Prefecture
| 365．Aki Castle | ||||||
| Aki Castle (安芸城, Aki-jō) was a castle of the Aki clan in what is now the city of Aki, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. Ruins still remain and the site was designated an Aki City Historic Site.[1] It is believed the castle was built by Aki Chikauji in 1308.[2] In 1569, the castle was besieged by Chōsokabe Motochika's force. Aki Kunitora, who was known as one of the seven great samurai of the Aki, entrenched himself in the castle, but later surrendered and committed seppuku.[3][4] Following the fall of the castle, Motochika appointed his younger brother Kōsokabe Chikayasu as the lord of the castle[3] and the castle became an important base for the Chōsokabe clan to invade Awa.[5] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 1308 Buildyear ： Aki Chikauji | ||||||
| 366．Okō Castle | ||||||
| Okō Castle (岡豊城, Okō-jō) was a Japanese castle structure located in what is now part of the city of Nankoku Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It was the original base of power for the Chōsokabe clan who were feudal lords of Tosa Province during the late Muromachi and Sengoku periods and famous as the birthplace of the warlord Chōsokabe Motochika.[1][2][3] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2008.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 13c-14c Buildyear ： Unknown | ||||||
| 367．Kōchi Castle | ||||||
| Kōchi Castle (高知城, Kōchi-jō) is an Edo Period Japanese castle in the city of Kōchi, Kōchi Prefecture, Japan. It is located at Otakayama hill, at the center of Kōchi city, which in turn is located at the center of the Kōchi Plain, the most prosperous area of former Tosa Province on the island of Shikoku. From 1601 to 1871, it was the center of Tosa Domain, ruled by the tozama Yamauchi clan under the Tokugawa Shogunate. The castle site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 1959, with the area under protection expanded in 2014.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayamashiro (hilltop castle) Builder ： 1601 to 1611 Buildyear ： Yamanouchi Kazutoyo |
Castle In Fukuoka Prefecture
| 368．Ōno Castle (Chikuzen Province) | ||||||
| Ōno Castle (大野城跡 Ōnojō-ato) is a ruined castle located on Mount Shioji (formerly called Mount Ōno) in the northern part of Dazaifu city in Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Construction began in 665 AD, after the defeat of the combined Japanese and Baekje forces by the Tang-Silla alliance at the Battle of Baekgang in 663. Fearing an invasion from the continent, the Japanese Yamato court is thought to have ordered the construction of the fortification to help protect the Daizaifu government center. Today the ruins of about seventy buildings can be seen, including buildings once used for storehouses, temples, and kitchens. A wall surrounded this area, built partly of stone, partly of earth. Sections of the wall still exist. This area is a Special Historic Site (特別史跡). Mizuki Castle was built nearby, also to protect Daizaifu. | ||||||
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| 369．Kii Castle | ||||||
| Kii Castle (基肄城, Kii-jo) was a castle structure between Miyaki District, Saga and Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan.[1][2] Kii Castle has been designated a site of special national significance.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： 665 Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 370．Kurume Castle | ||||||
| Kurume Castle (久留米城, Kurume-jō) was a castle structure in Kurume, Japan.[1] Kurume Castle was built by the ninth son of Mōri Motonari, Kobayakawa Hidekane in 1587.[2] Kurume castle is now only ruins, with some stone walls and water moat.[3] The castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles in 2017.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajirostyle castle Builder ： 1504-21 / 1587 Buildyear ： Kobayakawa Hidekane | ||||||
| 371．Kokura Castle | ||||||
| Kokura Castle (小倉城, Kokura-jō) is a castle in Kitakyushu, Japan. It was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki starting in 1602, with construction completed in 1608.[1] | ||||||
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| Builder ： 1608, rebuilt 1839, 1959 | ||||||
| 372．Tachibanayama Castle | ||||||
| Tachibanayama Castle (立花山城, Tachibanayama-jō) was a Japanese castle in Chikuzen Province, in the north of Kyūshū. It was at the peak of Mount Tachibana, extending in part into the Higashi-ku in Fukuoka.[1] The castle is also known as Rikka-jō, Tachibana-jō, or Rikkasan-jō. The castle was originally built in 1330, by Ōtomo Sadatoshi, Constable (shugo) of Bungo Province, as a show of support to the Tachibana clan.[2] Since it was in a tactically powerful location, looking down upon the port town of Hakata, the castle was fought over throughout the Sengoku period by the Ōtomo, Ōuchi, and Mōri clans. | ||||||
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| Type： Kamakura period Japanese castle Builder ： 1330 Buildyear ： Ōtomo Sadatoshi | ||||||
| 373．Najima Castle | ||||||
| Najima Castle (名島城, Najima-jō) is a hilltop castle, located in Fukuoka City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Japan. Today, only its ruins still stand. | ||||||
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| 374．Fukuoka Castle | ||||||
| Fukuoka Castle (福岡城, Fukuoka-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Fukuoka, Japan. It is also known as Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城 Maizuru-jō) or Seki Castle (石城 Seki-jō). Completed in the early Edo period for tozama daimyō Kuroda Nagamasa, it has been decreed a historic site by the Japanese government. | ||||||
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| 375．Mizuki Castle | ||||||
| Mizuki Castle (水城, Mizuki) was built in the year 664, in the third year of the Emperor Tenji's reign[1] It was built in the Dazai urban prefecture, presently situated in central Fukuoka, Japan. It is believed it was built to be the Japanese Yamato court. The main reason for construction was that there was a fear of an invasion from the continent, and it is thought that the castle was ordered to be constructed to protect Dazaifu. There are some remains of the castle left, including some low walls in the countryside. The castle is often associated with Ōno Castle (Chikuzen Province).[2] | ||||||
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Castle In Saga Prefecture
| 376．Karatsu Castle | ||||||
| Karatsu Castle (唐津城, Karatsu-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is a hirayamajiro, a castle built on a plain rather than a hill or mountain. At the end of the Edo period, Karatsu castle was home to the Ogasawara clan, daimyō of Karatsu Domain. It was also known as "Dancing Crane Castle" (舞鶴城, Maizuru-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1602-1609 Buildyear ： Terasawa Hirotaka | ||||||
| 377．Kii Castle | ||||||
| Kii Castle (基肄城, Kii-jo) was a castle structure between Miyaki District, Saga and Chikushino, Fukuoka, Japan.[1][2] Kii Castle has been designated a site of special national significance.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： 665 Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 378．Saga Castle | ||||||
| Saga Castle (佐賀城, Saga-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Saga City, Saga Prefecture, Japan. It is a hiraijirō, a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain, and is surrounded by a wall rather than being built above a stone base. Saga castle was home to the Nabeshima clan, daimyō of Saga Domain. It was also known as "Submerged Castle" (沈み城, Shizumi-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： hiraijirō-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1602-1611, reconstructed 1728, 1836, 2004 Buildyear ： Nabeshima clan | ||||||
| 379．Suko Castle | ||||||
| Suko Castle (須古城, Suko-jō) is the site of a castle structure in Shiroishi, Saga Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a Prefectural Historic Site.[2] In the Muromachi period, Suko Castle was the home castle of the Hirai clan. The lords of the castle included Hirai Tsuneharu. The Ryūzōji clan attacked the castle on four occasions, and it finally fell in 1574.[2][3][4] | ||||||
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| Type： Okajiro-style castle Builder ： Unknown Buildyear ： Hirai clan | ||||||
| 380．Nagoya Castle (Hizen Province) | ||||||
| Nagoya Castle (名護屋城, Nagoya-jō) was a Japanese castle located in Karatsu, Saga Prefecture. Nagoya Castle was located within Hizen Province on a peninsula near to Iki Island, and served as the base from which Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched his invasions of Korea from 1592 to 1598. None of the original historic structures of Nagoya Castle remain, but the castle's ruined foundations survive in the formerly separate town of Chinzei, now part of the city of Karatsu. | ||||||
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Castle In Nagasaki Prefecture
| 381．Ishida Castle | ||||||
| Ishida Castle (石田城, Ishida-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Gotō, Nagasaki prefecture. Also well known as "Fukue castle ".[1] Construction started in 1849 and were completed in 1863.[2][3] The former Goto clan's residence and garden is in the ninomaru compound and its designated as a “National designation place of scenic beauty”.[1][4] Goto Tourism and Historical Materials Museum is on site.[5] | ||||||
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| Type： Umijiro-style castle Builder ： 1863 Buildyear ： Gotō Moriakira, Gotō Morinori | ||||||
| 382．Kaneda Castle | ||||||
| Kaneda Castle (金田城, Kaneda-jō) was a Korean-style fortress located in Tsushima, Nagasaki prefecture. Kaneda castle has been designated as being of national special significance.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： 667 Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 383．Kushima Castle | ||||||
| Kushima Castle (玖島城, Kushima-jō), also known as Ōmura Castle (大村城, Ōmura-jō) from its location, is a Japanese castle located in Ōmura, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1599, rebuilt 1614 Buildyear ： Ōmura Yoshiaki | ||||||
| 384．Shimabara Castle | ||||||
| Shimabara Castle (島原城, Shimabara-jō), also known as Moritake Castle (森岳城, Moritake-jō) and Takaki Castle (高来城, Takaki-jō), is a Japanese castle located in Shimabara, Hizen Province (present day Nagasaki prefecture). This five-story white building stands in stark contrast to the black Kumamoto Castle in neighboring Kumamoto Prefecture. | ||||||
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| Type： Hira-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1624 Buildyear ： Matsukura Shigemasa | ||||||
| 385．Hara Castle | ||||||
| Hara Castle (原城, Hara-jō) was a Japanese castle in Hizen Province (today in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki). During the Shimabara Rebellion (1637–1638), rebellious peasants were besieged there. As a result of the Shimabara Rebellion in 1637, the Shogunate decided to expel the Portuguese from Japan. The Dutch, meanwhile, gained the trust of the authorities after they bombarded Hara Castle, where the insurgents had taken refuge, and thus gained a monopoly on European trade with Japan. | ||||||
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| 386．Hinoe Castle | ||||||
| Hinoe Castle (日野江城, Hinoe-jō) is a castle located in Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. The castle was originally built in the 13th century. It belonged to the Arima clan, and was the residence of the Christian daimyō. In 1637, during the Shimabara Rebellion, it was burned down by the forces of the Tokugawa Shogunate. The castle's ruins can still be seen.[1] | ||||||
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| 387．Hirado Castle | ||||||
| Hirado Castle (平戸城, Hirado-jō) was the seat of the Matsura clan, the daimyō of Hirado Domain, of Hizen Province, Kyūshū. It is located in present-day Hirado city Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan. It was also known as Kameoka Castle (亀岡城, Kameoka-jō). | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1718 (original)1962 (rebuild) Buildyear ： Matsura Takashi |
Castle In Kumamoto Prefecture
| 388．Kikuchi Castle | ||||||
| Kikuchi Castle (鞠智城, Kikuchi-jo) was a castle structure in Kikuchi, Kumamoto, Japan. Kikuchi castle has been designated as being of national significance.[1] Now Kikuchi castle park is on site.[2] Kikuchi castle was built by Yamato court. Following the defeat of Yamato Japan in the 663 battle of Hakusukinoe by an alliance of Tang China and the Korean kingdom of Silla, Emperor Tenji ordered the construction of defenses against a possible invasion.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Korean-style fortress Builder ： 668-670 Buildyear ： Yamato court | ||||||
| 389．Kumamoto Castle | ||||||
| Kumamoto Castle (熊本城, Kumamoto-jō) is a hilltop Japanese castle located in Chūō-ku, Kumamoto, in Kumamoto Prefecture.[1] It was a large and well-fortified castle. The castle keep (天守閣, tenshukaku) is a concrete reconstruction built in 1960,[1] but a number of ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. Kumamoto Castle is considered one of the three premier castles in Japan, along with Himeji Castle and Matsumoto Castle.[2] Thirteen structures in the castle complex are designated Important Cultural Property.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Azuchi-Momoyama castle Builder ： 1467 (original fortifications) [1] 1496 (expansion) [1] 1601–1607 (expansion) [1] 1610 (Honmaru Goten Palace) [1] 1960 (reconstruction) [1] 1998–2008 (reconstruction) [1] 2016-present (repairs following Earthquake damage) Buildyear ： Ideta Hidenobu (1467) [1] Kanokogi Chikakazu (1496) [1] Katō Kiyomasa (1601–1607) [1] Katō Kiyomasa (1610) [1] | ||||||
| 390．Tomioka Castle | ||||||
| Tomioka Castle (富岡城, Tomioka-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Tomioka, Reihoku Town, Amakusa District, Kumamoto Prefecture. During the 16th century, it was the castle of Terasawa Katataka, a daimyō who played a critical part in repressing the Shimabara Rebellion. 32°31′44.07″N 130°1′54.78″E / 32.5289083°N 130.0318833°E / 32.5289083; 130.0318833 | ||||||
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| 391．Hitoyoshi Castle | ||||||
| Hitoyoshi is a 12th-century castle, now ruins, located in Hitoyoshi, Kumamoto Prefecture. It is recognized as one of Japan's top 100 castles.[1] | ||||||
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| 392．Yatsushiro Castle | ||||||
| Yatsushiro Castle (八代城, Yatsushiro-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Yatsushiro, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan.[1] In 1619, Mugishima Castle collapsed due to a large earthquake then Katō Kiyomasa's son Kato Tadahiro ordered his vassal Katō Masataka to build a new castle.[2] In 1632, Hosokawa Tadaoki entered the castle by the Tokugawa shogunate's order and spent retired life in the kitanomaru compound of the castle.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro-style castle Builder ： 1622 Buildyear ： Masataka Katō |
Castle In Ōita Prefecture
| 393．Usuki Castle | ||||||
| Usuki Castle (臼杵城, Usuki-jō) is a Japanese castle in Usuki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Another name of this castle is Nyūjima Castle (丹生島城, Nyūjima-jō). | ||||||
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| 394．Oka Castle | ||||||
| Oka Castle (岡城, Oka-jō) was a Sengoku to Edo period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the city of Taketa, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2023.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1185 Buildyear ： Ogata Koreyoshi | ||||||
| 395．Kitsuki Castle | ||||||
| Kitsuki Castle (杵築城, Kitsuki-jō) was an Edo period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the city of Kitsuki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan..[1] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2020.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1394 Buildyear ： Kitsuki Yorinao | ||||||
| 396．Saiki Castle | ||||||
| Saiki Castle (佐伯城, Saiki-jō) was an Edo period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the city of Saiki, Ōita Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3][4] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2023.[5] It is No.194 on the list "Continued 100 Fine Castles of Japan".[6] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1602-1606 Buildyear ： Mōri Takamasa | ||||||
| 397．Tsunomure Castle | ||||||
| Tsunomure Castle (角牟礼城, Tsunomure-jō) was a yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the town of Kusu, Ōita Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2005.[4] It is on the list "Continued 100 Fine Castles of Japan".[5] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1278-1288 | ||||||
| 398．Nakatsu Castle | ||||||
| Nakatsu Castle (中津城, Nakatsu-jō) is a Japanese castle in the city of Nakatsu in Ōita Prefecture. It is known as one of the three mizujiro, or "castles on the sea", in Japan, with Takamatsu Castle in Kagawa Prefecture and Imabari Castle in Ehime Prefecture.[1][2][3] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1587 Buildyear ： Kuroda Yoshitaka | ||||||
| 399．Hiji Castle | ||||||
| Hiji Castle (日出城, Hiji-jō), also known as Yokoku Castle, Aoyagi Castle, and Ukitsu Castle, is a castle located in Hiji, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. The construction of the castle began in 1601, under Kinoshita Nobutoshi's orders, when he was transferred to Hiji from Himeji. The castle was designed by Nobutoshi's brother-in-law, Hosokawa Tadaoki.[1] It holds a strategic location, as it overlooks Beppu Bay. Today, the castle's ruins (all that remains are the stone walls and the Sumi yagura) are a park, though Hiji Elementary School is also located on the grounds.[2] | ||||||
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| 400．Funai Castle | ||||||
| Funai Castle (府内城, Funai-jō) is a 16th-century castle, located in Ōita city, Ōita Prefecture, Japan. It was built by Ōtomo Sōrin in 1562, who owned much of the surrounding Kyūshū island. The castle was originally built with several turrets (yagura), all of which were burnt down with the three-story donjon in 1743. Some parts of the castle were rebuilt in the 1800’s, including two of the turrets which still stand today. The covered bridge that led to the castle over its moat, as well as three more turrets and the main castle gate, were rebuilt in the 20th century. Original remains also include parts of the stone and plaster walls, as well as the moat. | ||||||
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Castle In Miyazaki Prefecture
| 401．Aya Castle | ||||||
| Aya Castle (綾城, Aya-jō) is a castle located in Aya, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan. Aya was built from around 1331 to about 1334. Its name derives from the man who oversaw the construction of the castle, who referred to himself only as "Aya" (his real name was Koshiro Yoshito).[1] His family ruled over the castle until the Muromachi period, when the head of the Itō clan took over Aya Castle, which was one of 48 under their control and considered to be their most strategic against the Shimazu.[2] The Shimazu clan seized the castle following their victory over the Itō in 1577. The castle was then given to Niiro Hisatoki, one of the retainers for the Shimazu Clan.[3] Toyotomi Hideyoshi conquered the castle for a short period ten years later.[4] In 1615, however, the castle was destroyed due to a shogunal decree that every domain could have only one castle.[5] | ||||||
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| 402．Iino Castle | ||||||
| Iino Castle (飯野城, Iino-jō) also known as Kame-jiro was a castle structure in Ebino, Miyazaki, Japan.[1][2] Iino Castle was built by the Kusakabe clan and was later controlled by the Shimazu clan.[3] Shimazu Yoshihiro became command of the castle and spent 26 years in the castle.[4] He set out for Battle of Kizaki from the castle.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama castle Builder ： 11c Buildyear ： Kusakabe clan | ||||||
| 403．Obi Castle | ||||||
| Obi Castle is a Japanese castle, which was originally completed in 1588.[1] It was founded by the Tsuchimochi clan in Nanboku-cho Period, but most of its structure comes from the mid-1400s.[2] It featured prominently in conflicts between the Ito and Shimazu Clan. It was in initially in Shimazu hands, until lost to the Ito clan in 1587. The Ito clan continued to rule it until the Meiji period,[3] expanding it and making it more defendable, with the castle town protected on three sides by the Sakatani river.[4] A domain called Obi Domain was ruled from the castle. | ||||||
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| 404．Sadowara Castle | ||||||
| Sadowara Castle (佐土原城, Sadowara-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the Sadowara neighborhood of the city of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, on the island of Kyushu, Japan.[1] It is also called Tsurumatsu Castle (鶴松城, Tsurumatsu-jō), and later Shōkaku Castle (松鶴城, Shōkaku-jō). During the Sengoku period, it was the stronghold of the Itō clan and later was controlled by the Shimazu clan. Shimazu Toyohisa was command of the castle.[1][2][3][4]During the Edo period, the castle was headquarters of Sadowara Domain, which ruled portions of Hyūga Province (modern-day Miyazaki) from 1603 to 1871. The castle site has been a National Historic Site since 2004.[5] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： C. Kamakura period | ||||||
| 405．Tonokōri Castle | ||||||
| Tonokōri Castle (都於郡城, Tonokōri-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro-style Japanese castle located in the Tonokōri neighborhood of the city of Saito, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.[1][2] It was also known as Ukibune Castle (浮船城). Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2000.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： yamajiro-style Japanese castle Builder ： 1335 Buildyear ： Itō Sukemochi | ||||||
| 406．Nobeoka Castle | ||||||
| Nobeoka Castle (延岡城, Nobeoka-jō) is the remains of a castle structure in Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture, Japan.[1][2][3] After the battle of Sekigahara, Takahashi Mototane started building the castle.[4] In 1655, Arima clan fortified the castle and built a 3 level main keep. However, it was burnt down by a fire in 1683 and was never rebuilt.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro-style castle Builder ： 1603 Buildyear ： Takahashi Mototane | ||||||
| 407．Mukasa Castle | ||||||
| Mukasa Castle (穆佐城, Mukasa-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the Takaoka neighborhood of what is now the city of Miyazaki, Miyazaki Prefecture, in southeastern Kyushu, Japan. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 2002.[1] It was also called Musain High Castle (穆佐院高城, Musain-Takajō). It is one of the 48 castles controlled by the Itō clan in Hyūga Province in the Sengoku period. | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style Japanese castle Builder ： c.1336 |
Castle In Kagoshima Prefecture
| 408．Izaku Castle | ||||||
| Izaku Castle (伊作城, Izaku-jō) was a castle structure in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.[1] The date of the castle's construction is unknown, but it is believed that the castle was built by Shimazu Hisanaga in the thirteenth century.[2] It was the original seat of power for the Shimazu clan until 1536, when Shimazu Takahisa relocated the clan leadership to Ichiuji Castle. It was famously the birthplace of the warlords Shimazu Tadayoshi, Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro.[1][3][4][5] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 13th century Buildyear ： Unknown | ||||||
| 409．Ichiuji Castle | ||||||
| Ichiuji Castle (一宇治城, Ichiuji-jō) is a castle structure in Hioki, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan.[1] Ichiuji Castle is also called Ijūin Castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： 13c Buildyear ： Ijuin clan | ||||||
| 410．Kagoshima Castle | ||||||
| Kagoshima Castle (鹿児島城, Kagoshima-jō), also known as Tsurumaru Castle, was a Japanese castle located in Kagoshima, Kagoshima Prefecture.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Japanese castle Builder ： 1601 Buildyear ： Matsudaira Iehisa | ||||||
| 411．Kokubu Castle | ||||||
| Kokubu Castle (国分城, Kokubu-jō) also called Maizuru Castle is the remains of a castle structure in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The site is called a Kokubu castle, but it is a fortified residence rather than a castle.[1] In 1604, Shimazu Yoshihiro built the castle and moved from Tomiguma Castle.[2] Shimazu Yoshihisa lived a retired life in the castle, he died January 21 in 1611[3][2] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirajiro-style castle Builder ： 1604 Buildyear ： Shimazu Yoshihiro | ||||||
| 412．Shibushi Castle | ||||||
| Shibushi Castle (志布志城, Shibushi-jō) is the earthly remains of a castle structure in Shibushi, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. It is unknown when Shibushi castle was built.[1] Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site, since 2005.[2] The castle was demolished due to the Tokugawa shogunate's "one country, one castle" rule in 1615 and now is only ruins, with some moats and earthworks remain.[1][3] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama-style castle Builder ： Unknown Buildyear ： Unknown | ||||||
| 413．Chiran Castle | ||||||
| Chiran Castle (知覧城, Chiran-jō) is a castle structure in Chiran, Kagoshima, Minamikyūshū, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. The site was designated a National Historic Site.[1][2][3] There are little remains of the castle on the present day site, just some earthworks walls and moats.[3] In 2017, the castle was listed as one of the Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Hirayama style castle Builder ： 15C Buildyear ： Sata clan |
Castle In Okinawa Prefecture
| 414．Gusuku | ||||||
| Gusuku (グスク, 城, Okinawan: gushiku)[1] often refers to castles or fortresses in the Ryukyu Islands that feature stone walls. However, the origin and essence of gusuku remain controversial. In the archaeology of Okinawa Prefecture, the Gusuku period refers to an archaeological epoch of the Okinawa Islands that follows the shell-mound period and precedes the Sanzan period, when most gusuku are thought to have been built. Many gusuku and related cultural remains on Okinawa Island have been listed by UNESCO as World Heritage Sites under the title Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. | ||||||
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| 415．Agena Castle | ||||||
| Agena Castle (安慶名城, Agena jō, Okinawan: Agina Gushiku[1] or Aginaa Gushiku[2]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku located in the north of Agena district of Uruma, Okinawa, in former Gushikawa City. It was built on a base of Ryukyuan limestone and occupies 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft). Agena Castle sits at an altitude of 49 metres (161 ft), and is naturally protected by the Tengan River to the north.[3] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century Buildyear ： Ōgawa Aji | ||||||
| 416．Izena Castle | ||||||
| Izena Castle (伊是名城, Izena-jo, Okinawan: Ijina Gushiku[1]) is a Ryūkyūan gusuku on Izena Island. It was built around the 14th century by Samekawa, son of the Yogura Chief of Iheya Island. It is built over a limestone outcrop about 100 metres (330 ft) above sea level on the south eastern side of the island.[2] The castle has three sides which are near vertical cliffs; the south, west and east faces of the castle are rock cliffs, while the northern side provides entry to the castle through a series of steps cut into the hill. There are several chambers in the castle which are separated by walls, built with piled-up pieces of Ryūkyūan limestone, 3 metres (9.8 ft) in height.[2] The chambers have many sacred relics such as utaki (holy enclosures of the Ryūkyūan religion) and also celadons, Sueki wares, and other important objects, which are also seen in other gusuku sites. King Shō Shin built Izena Tamaudun near the castle. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century Buildyear ： Samekawa | ||||||
| 417．Itokazu Castle | ||||||
| Itokazu Castle (糸数城, Itokazu jō, Okinawan: Ichukaji Gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa. It was built with Ryūkyūan limestone in the mid-14th century. It is now in ruins.[1] The castle was built in the Gusuku Period of Ryukyuan history. It was the home of the Aji of Tamagusuku Magiri. After Nanzan was conquered in 1429 by Shō Hashi, it came under the control of the Ryukyu Kingdom. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： Mid-14th century | ||||||
| 418．Iha Castle | ||||||
| Iha Castle (伊波城, Iha jō, Okinawan: Ifa Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Uruma, Okinawa. It sits on a cliff that separates Iha from Ishikawa, with a grand view of the Ishikawa Isthmus. The castle is in ruins, with nothing left of the original structures save the walls. There are also multiple Ryukyuan shrines in the bailey. Based on artifacts found in and around the castle, it has been estimated to have been in use around the 13th to 15th centuries.[2] The Okinawa Prefectural government erected a stone Torii in front of one of the castle gates, along with a plaque describing it. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century | ||||||
| 419．Uegusuku Castle (Kume) | ||||||
| Uegusuku Castle (宇江城城, Uegusuku jō, Okinawan: Wiigushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Kumejima, Okinawa, on Kume Island.[2] It was the home to the Aji of Kume Magiri before the 16th century.[3] It is now a ruined castle. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 15th century | ||||||
| 420．Urasoe Castle | ||||||
| Urasoe Castle (浦添城, Urasoe jō, Okinawan: Urashii Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku which served as the capital of the medieval Okinawan principality of Chūzan prior to the unification of the island into the Ryukyu Kingdom, and the moving of the capital to Shuri. In the 14th century, Urasoe was the largest castle on the island, but today only ruins remain. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： late 13th – early 14th century; later expanded and refurbished | ||||||
| 421．Kakinohana Castle | ||||||
| Kakinohana Castle (垣花城, Kakinohana jō, Okinawan: Kachinuhana Gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa. Kakinohana Castle is a kuruwa[1] style fortification on a hill overlooking the Pacific Ocean. The stone walls are built in the nozura[1] (stacked stone) style. No accurate details of the construction of this castle exist, but legend states it that it was built by the second son of Minton Aji, an Okinawan ruler around the 14th century.[2] | ||||||
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| 422．Katsuren Castle | ||||||
| Katsuren Castle (勝連城, Katsuren jō, Okinawan: Kacchin Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Uruma, Okinawa. In 2000, Katsuren Castle was designated as a World Heritage Site, as a part of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 13th-14th century Buildyear ： Aji of Katsuren Magiri | ||||||
| 423．Kyan Castle | ||||||
| Kyan Castle (喜屋武城, Kyan jō, Okinawan: Chan Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Uruma, Okinawa. It was controlled by the Ōgawa Aji of Agena Castle until it was destroyed by the Ryukyu Kingdom.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Buildyear ： Fourth son of Ōgawa Aji | ||||||
| 424．Gushikawa Castle (Kume) | ||||||
| Gushikawa Castle (具志川城, Gushikawa jō, Okinawan: Gushichaa Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Kumejima, Okinawa, on Kume Island. It was built in the 15th century. The Miifugaa rock formation can be seen from the castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 15th century | ||||||
| 425．Gushikawa Castle (Itoman) | ||||||
| Gushikawa Castle (具志川城, Gushikawa jō, Okinawan: Gushichan Gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Itoman, Okinawa.[1] [2] [3] | ||||||
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| 426．Zakimi Castle | ||||||
| Zakimi Castle (座喜味城, Zakimi jō, Okinawan: Zachimi Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Yomitan, Okinawa. It is in ruins, but the walls and foundations have been restored. In 2000, Zakimi Castle was designated as a World Heritage Site, as a part of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 1416-1422 Buildyear ： Gosamaru | ||||||
| 427．Sashiki Castle | ||||||
| Sashiki Castle (佐敷城, Sashiki jō, Okinawan: Sashichi Gushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa.[2] It was built by Shō Shishō[3] and served as the home of the Aji of Sashiki Magiri. During the Taishō era, a Shinto shrine was built over the remains of the main hall. Unlike most gusuku, which are known for high stone walls, the remains of such walls have not been found at Sashiki Castle by archaeologists. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： late-14th century Buildyear ： Shō Shishō | ||||||
| 428．Ōzato Castle | ||||||
| Ōzato Castle (大里城, Ōzato jō, Okinawan: Ufuzatu Gushiku), officially Shimasoe-Ōzato Castle (島添大里城, Shimasoe-Ōzato jō, Okinawan: Shimashii-Ufuzatu Gushiku), is a Ryukyuan gusuku built in Nanzan and used until 1429. It, and the village of Ōzato, are named after the Ōzato Dynasty of Nanzan. It is in ruins, and is an officially designated historical site in Nanjō City, Okinawa.[1] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century Buildyear ： Ōzato Magiri Aji | ||||||
| 429．Shuri Castle | ||||||
| Shuri Castle (首里城, Shuri-jō, Okinawan: Sui Ugusuku[3]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku castle in Shuri, Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. Between 1429 and 1879, it was the palace of the Ryukyu Kingdom, before becoming largely neglected. In 1945, during the Battle of Okinawa, it was almost completely destroyed. After the war, the castle was re-purposed as a university campus. Beginning in 1992, the central citadel and walls were largely reconstructed on the original site based on historical records, photographs, and memory. In 2000, Shuri Castle was designated as a World Heritage Site, as a part of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. On the morning of 31 October 2019, the main courtyard structures of the castle were again destroyed in a fire.[4] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 14th century, first rebuild 1958–1992, second rebuild 2020-present | ||||||
| 430．Tamagusuku Castle | ||||||
| Tamagusuku Castle (玉城城, Tamagusuku jō, Okinawan: Tamagushiku[1]) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa. It is the oldest castle on Okinawa; Chūzan Seikan says it was built by Amamikyu, the creation goddess of the Ryukyuan religion. It was the home of the Aji of Tamagusuku Magiri. It is located about 700 meters north of Tamagusuku village. The castle is almost a complete ruin and is visited as a sacred grove | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： pre-14th century | ||||||
| 431．Chinen Castle | ||||||
| Chinen Castle (知念城, Chinen jō, Okinawan: Chinin Gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nanjō, Okinawa. It is the second oldest castle in the Ryukyu Islands. The ruins consist of the old castle to the east being made out of rock and the other newer castle to the west being made out of ashlar masonry.[1] Before the Sanzan Period, the "King of the Ryukyu Islands" and the chief priestess would make a pilgrimage to Chinen Castle. The castle was the home of the Aji of Chinen Magiri. The new castle was built[2] under Shō Shin who reigned from 1477 to 1526. In 1972 the ruins of Chinen Castle were designated as a National Historic Site.[3] | ||||||
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| 432．Nakagusuku Castle | ||||||
| Nakagusuku Castle (中城城, Nakagusuku jō, Okinawan: Nakagushiku) is a gusuku in the village of Kitanakagusuku, Okinawa, Japan. It is one of a number of castles built on the island of Okinawa by the Ryukyu Kingdom now in ruins. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： around 1440 Buildyear ： Gosamaru | ||||||
| 433．Nakijin Castle | ||||||
| Nakijin Castle (今帰仁城, Nakijin Gusuku, Kunigami: Nachijin Gushiiku, Okinawan: Nachijin Gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku located in Nakijin, Okinawa. It is currently in ruins. In the late 14th century, the island of Okinawa consisted of three principalities: Nanzan to the south, Chūzan in the central area, and Hokuzan in the north. Nakijin was the capital of Hokuzan. The fortress includes several sacred Utaki groves, reflecting the castle's role as a center of religious activity. It is today known for the Hikan cherries which bloom in northern Okinawa between mid-January and early February, providing the first cherry blossoms each year in Japan. In 2000, Nakijin Castle was designated as a World Heritage Site, as a part of the Gusuku Sites and Related Properties of the Kingdom of Ryukyu. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century Buildyear ： Haniji | ||||||
| 434．Nago Castle | ||||||
| 26°35′15″N 127°58′45″E / 26.5875758°N 127.9792328°E / 26.5875758; 127.9792328 Nago Castle (名護城, Nago jō, Okinawan: Nagu gushiku) is a Ryukyuan gusuku in Nago, Okinawa.[1] It was built in the 14th century and served as the home of the Aji of Nago Magiri. In 1416, the army of Chūzan, led by Shō Hashi, attacked and captured the castle during the invasion of Hokuzan. | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century | ||||||
| 435．Nanzan Castle | ||||||
| Nanzan Castle (南山城, Nanzan jō, Okinawan: Nanzan Gushiku), officially Shimajiri-Ōzato Castle (島尻大里城, Shimajiri-Ōzato jō, Okinawan: Shimajiri-Ufuzatu Gushiku), is a Ryūkyūan gusuku and was the largest in, and capital of, Nanzan until 1429. It is in ruins, and is located in Itoman. Nanzan Castle was built in the early 14th century, and became capital of Nanzan in 1314 when the Lord of Ōzato, Ōzato Ofusato, broke away from the chieftain Tamagusuku at Urasoe Castle.[1] It sat on a hill near the fishing town of Itoman and the farming village of Ōzato. There was a small inlet at the bottom of the hill that allowed merchant ships to trade directly with the castle.[2] The strategic location of the castle allowed Nanzan to compete with Chūzan and outlive Hokuzan, but during a succession dispute in 1429 following the death of the last King of Nanzan, Ōzato Taromai, the army of Chūzan captured the castle.[2] In the 1950s, a primary school was built within the inner court of the castle.[2] | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： early 14th century Buildyear ： Ōzato family | ||||||
| 436．Furusutobaru Castle | ||||||
| The site sits on a ridge overlooking Miyara Bay. There are 15 walled enclosures, a few of which have been excavated.[3] Finds include local pottery, white porcelain and celadon from China, and the bones of horses and cows.[4][5] | ||||||
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| 437．Mie Castle | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Buildyear ： Shō Sei | ||||||
| 438．Yamada Castle | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 13th century | ||||||
| 439．Yarazamori Castle | ||||||
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| Type： Gusuku Builder ： 1546 Buildyear ： Shō Sei |