Akiyama clan

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Ina, Nagano

Takatō Castle

高遠城

A castle site with no keep and no tall stone walls, filled instead with 1,500 cherry trees of a single variety.

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Ena, Gifu

Iwamura Castle

岩村城

On a 717-meter mountain, tiers of stone walls with no buildings left on them climb through the forest.

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Uda, Nara

Uda Matsuyama Castle

宇陀松山城

The marks left when the shogunate had it torn down in 1615 are still there on the mountaintop.

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Uda, Nara

Uda Matsuyama Castle

宇陀松山城

The marks left when the shogunate had it torn down in 1615 are still there on the mountaintop.

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