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  1. Karakawa Castle

    Castle Karakawa Castle

    Karakawa Castle (唐川城) was a mountain castle built about three kilometres north as a branch castle of Fukushima Castle on the north shore of Lake Jūsan (十三湖). It is thought that it served as a lookout tower as it overlooks both the lake and the Sea of Japan. While visiting Fukushima Castle, I...
  2. Namioka Castle

    Castle Namioka Castle

    Namioka Castle (浪岡城 Namioka-jō) was a flatland castle (平城 hirajiro) located in the former town of Namioka, southwest of Aomori City. The castle ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1940. They were added to the "Continued Top 100 Japanese Castles" in 2017. Namioka Castle was ruled...
  3. Kinugasa Castle

    Castle Kinugasa Castle

    Kinugasa Castle (衣笠城 Kinugasa-jō) is a mountain castle located in the hilly area of the southern part of the Miura Peninsula, approximately four kilometres south of the centre of Yokosuka City. As a result of his military achievements in the Former Nine Years' War, Taira no Tamemichi (平為通...
  4. Mukai-Haguroyama Castle

    Castle Mukai-Haguroyama Castle

    Mukai-Haguroyama Castle (向羽黒山城 Mukaihaguroyamajō) was a mountain castle (山城 yamashiro) in Aizumisato Town, Onuma District, Fukushima. In 2001, the castle was designated a National Historic Site (国指定史跡 Kuni shitei shiseki), and on 6 April 2017, it was ranked as one of Japan's Finest 100 castles...
  5. Inawashiro Castle

    Castle Inawashiro Castle

    Inawashiro Castle (猪苗代城 Inawashiro-jō) is a mountain castle (平山城 hirayamashiro) in Inawashiro, Fukushima. It is also known as Kamegajō (亀ヶ城) and was designated a Historic Site of Fukushima. History: In the early Kamakura period, Sawara Yoshitsura (佐原義連) of the Miura clan (三浦氏) was given the...
  6. Akadate Castle

    Castle Akadate Castle

    Akadate Castle (赤館城 Akadate-jō) is a mountain castle built on a hill in Tanagura, Fukushima. This hill is only 345 metres high, but it was the dividing line between the Kantō and Tōhoku regions, connecting Ibaraki along the Kuji River to the south and Fukushima and Miyagi along the Abukuma...
  7. Obata Castle (Ibaraki)

    Castle Obata Castle (Ibaraki)

    Obata Castle (小幡城 Obatajō) is a flatland castle (平城 hirajiro) built in Ibaraki Town, south of Mito. Although it is not well known to the general public, it is highly rated by castle enthusiasts who have visited it because of the excellent condition of the remains and its unique and complex...
  8. Ōtaki Castle

    Castle Ōtaki Castle

    Ōtaki Castle (大多喜城 Ōtakijō) was a flat mountain castle located in the town of Ōtaki, Isumi, south-eastern Chiba Prefecture. In the Middle Ages, the area was known as Ōtaki. Hence, the name of the castle derived from the locality. In the first half of the 16th century, the Mariyatsu Takeda...
  9. Ōgaki Castle

    Castle Ōgaki Castle

    Ōgaki Castle (大垣城 Ōgakijō) was a flatland castle (平城 hirajiro or hirajō) in Ōgaki, western Mino Province (modern-day Gifu Prefecture). It is also known as Kyoroku Castle (巨鹿城 Kyorokujō) or Bi Castle (麇城 Bijō). Castellans of Ōgaki during the Edo period: 1601-15: Ishikawa Yasumichi (石川康通) and...
  10. Kitagata Castle

    Castle Kitagata Castle

    Kitagata Castle (北方城) is a flat castle located in Kitagata Town, Motosu-gun, about five kilometres northwest of central Gifu City. It was designated a Historical Site of Gifu Prefecture. The castle was built and occupied by Iga Taroemon Mitsunari (伊賀太郎衛門光就). The fourth lord of the castle, Iga...
  11. Gifu Castle

    Castle Gifu Castle

    Gifu Castle (岐阜城 Gifu-jō) is a mountain castle built on Kinkazan (金華山, 329 meters above sea level) in the northern part of Gifu City. It was the residence of Oda Nobunaga and was designated a Historical Site of Japan in 2011. The first fortification on Kinkazan was built in 1201 by Nikaidō...
  12. Kano Castle

    Castle Kano Castle

    Kanō Castle (加納城 Kanō-jō) was a flatland (平城 hirajirō) castle located in modern-day Gifu City. When people hear Gifu, they first think of Gifu Castle, but it was here in Kanō Castle, where the political centre of Gifu was during the Edo period. Kanō-juku (加納宿) was the fifty-third of the...
  13. Gakuden Castle

    Castle Gakuden Castle

    Gakuden Castle (楽田城 Gakuden-jō) is a flatland castle (平城 hirajiro) located in the eastern part of the Nobi Plain, south of Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, and most importantly, close to the Kiso Highway (木曽街道). It is located halfway between Inuyama Castle (犬山城) and Komakiyama Castle (小牧山城). Oda...
  14. Mochifune Castle

    Castle Mochifune Castle

    Mochifune Castle (持舟城 Mochifune-jō) is a flat mountain castle (平山城 hirayamajō) facing the sea in Mochimune, Suruga Ward, Shizuoka City. History: The castle was most likely built by the Imagawa. Sekiguchi Chikanaga (関口親長, the father of Tsukiyama-dono, Ieyasu's wife) was appointed castellan to...
  15. Sagara Castle

    Castle Sagara Castle

    Sagara Castle (相良城 Sagara-jō) is a flatland castle (平城 hirajiro) built along the Hagima River (萩間川) in Sagara, Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture. Sagara Manor was located here during the Heian period (794-1185). Around 1112, Kudō Kaneyori (工藤周頼), a descendant of the Fujiwara clan, moved to...
  16. Ryugenzan Castle

    Castle Ryugenzan Castle

    Ryugenzan Castle (龍眼山城 Ryūgenzanjō) was a mountain castle (山城 yamashiro) in Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture (formerly Haibara Town). The castle's origin is unknown, but some historians believe that it was either built by the local Katsumata clan (勝間田氏) or that it was a residence of the Takeda...
  17. Sunpu Castle

    Sunpu Castle

  18. Sunpu Castle

    Sunpu Castle

  19. Sunpu Castle

    Sunpu Castle

  20. Sunpu Castle

    Sunpu Castle

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