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[Castle name] Tateyama Castle Tateyama castle was built by Yoshiyori Satomi who was from the southern edge of Chiba prefecture [Explanation] The construction of Tateyama castle was started by Yoshiyori Satomi in 1580. Until then the Sato...

[Castle name] Goryokaku Castle Enomoto Takeshi and the former shogunate army final resistance Japan's first Western castle Goryokaku [Explanation] Goryokaku in Hakodate City, Hokkaido is Japan's first Western style archway. It was built ...

[Castle name] Aizuwakamatsu Castle Boshin war the greatest battlefield one-month battle Aizuwakamatsu castle. [Explanation] Aizuwakamatsu Castle located in Aizuwakamatsu City, Fukushima Prefecture, is a historic castle that is now crowde...

[Castle name] Takeda Castle A typical mountain castle Akamatsu Hirohide made big improvement surrounded by overwhelming stone walls The castle in the sky, Taketa Castle. [Explanation] "Takeda Castle" which is wielded authority in the cou...

[Castle name] Kiyosu Castle Oda Nobunaga Castle of leap forward Beautiful Kiyosu Castle [Explanation] Oda Nobunaga was called Kippoushi (Yoshiyoshi) when he was young and grew up at Nagano Castle. Father, Nobuhide passed away, he became ...

[Castle name] Okazaki Castle Matsudaira (Tokugawa family) Historic castle of generations Okazaki Castle of Motoharu Matsudaira (Ieyasu Tokugawa) [Explanation] Okazaki Castle is a castle of Matsudaira's generations. Ieyasu (then: Take Chi...

[Castle name] Oshi Castle [Explanation] Oshi castle appeared in "Nobouno Castle" that became a topic in the movie a few years ago. It is a castle that has made his name familiar to the world under the opponent of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Kan...

[Castle name] Nagoya Castle From Oda Nobuhide bestowed to Oda Nobunaga Nobunaga (Yoshihiro) is the first castle to be a lord’s castle. [Explanation] Around the Tenmon seventh year (1538), father Nobuhide moved to Koba Castle, so the thir...

[Castle name] Takashima Castle From Hineno Takayoshi to Suwa orimizu, A beautiful castle called Takashima castle. [Explanation] It was a castle that faced Lake Suwa, and it was Mizuki that protruded to the lake side before the Edo period...

[Castle name] Okayama Castle Leader of the troubled times, Residence of Ukita Naoie Hideie, Okayama Castle. [Explanation] Okayama Castle is a castle that Ukita used as a castle during the Sengoku Era. In the Edo era "Okayama clan 2nd lor...

[Castle name] Kokura Castle Surrender with an attack by cavalry of Tokugawa Shogunate Important gateway to the Kyushu, Kokura castle [Explanation] Speaking of Ogura Castle, it is a castle famous for having a battle between a soldier led ...

[Castle name] Marugame Castle Stonewall is the top in Japan Shikoku's Meijo Marugame Castle. [Explanation] As you can see in Marugame castle, the stone wall is very high and the castle tower has been built. The height of the stone wall i...

[Castle name] Arako Castle Castle where Maeda Toshiie raised, Arako castle. [Explanation] Arako Castle is known as a castle where Maeda Toshiie was born. Toshiie was not originally in the position to succeed the Maeda family, but was cho...

[Castle name] Koga Castle Kubou, Ashikaga Yoshiuji's residence Furukawa castle and Inner citadel trace [Explanation] Kento 4th year (1455), fifth generation Kamakura Kubou "Ashikaga Shigeuji" moved from Kamakura to Koga, became the first...

[Castle name] Ueda Castle Masayuki Sanada's Ueda castle who has defeated the Tokugawa army twice (the first part). [Explanation] [Fighting the Tokugawa army twice, the hardcore boasting the iron wall defense system] Ueda castle which Mas...

[Castle name] Ueda Castle Masayuki Sanada's Ueda Castle boasting a steel wall defense system (second part). [Explanation] [Fighting the Tokugawa army twice, the hardcore boasting the iron wall defense system] In the first battle with the...

[Castle name] Kumamoto Castle Kato Kiyomasa Castle of struggle, stonewall such as Mushakaeshi from Kumamoto castle is a wonderful. [Explanation] Kumamoto Castle is a castle present in Kumamoto city, Kumamoto Prefecture. Another name is G...

[Castle name] Maruoka Castle Maruoka Castle is one of Japan’s 100 famous castles and was owned by Munekatsu Aoyama, who was a vassal of Nagahide Niwa. It is registered as a national cultural treasure. [Explanation] Maruoka castle existed...

[Castle name] Kanazawa Castle Kanazawa castle was where Toshiie Made and Toshinaga Made resided, and is also famous for Kenroku-en, one of Japan’s three large gardens. [Explanation] Kanazawa castle was located in Kanazawa-shi, Ishikawa p...

[Castle name] Nakatsu Castle Nakatsu castle was built after Kanbe Kuroda received it from Hideyoshi Toyotomi. (Yukichi FUkuzawa belonged to Nakatsu domain) [Explanation] Nakatsu castle was located in Nakatsu in Fuzen no Kuni. Kanbe Kurod...