Browsing: Castles

Matsue Castle – finally designed as a Japan’s national treasure in 2015

Castle in the sky floating the sea of clouds! Takeda Castle Ruins is known as “Japanese Machu Picchu”

Matsumoto Castle – Japan’s national treasure which tells hard domestic battles to the present day.

Kumamoto Castle – One of Japan’s three premier castles.

Himeji Castle – Japan’s national treasure as well as a UNESCO world heritage site.

Here is Castle in the sky!! “Echizen Ono Castle” is marvelous scenery but rarely seen.

Tsuruga-jo Castle – the most impregnable castle that held out a long siege at the battle of Boshin War.

Nijo Castle (Nijo-jo) – the place facing the begining and the end of Edo Period.