Gamō clan

Nihonmatsu, Fukushima

Nihonmatsu Castle

二本松城

A medieval mountain stronghold and an Edo-period castle of stone walls sit layered on the very same hill.

Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima

Aizuwakamatsu Castle

会津若松城

The only castle in Japan today where you can see a keep roofed in red tiles.

Matsuyama, Ehime

Matsuyama Castle

松山城

The keep was finished the year after Perry's Black Ships arrived, and its roof tiles bear the hollyhock crest of the Tokugawa clan.

Matsusaka, Mie

Matsusaka Castle

松阪城

Built into the stone base of the keep are the lids of ancient stone coffins from burial mounds.

Shirakawa, Fukushima

Komine Castle

白河小峰城

When the earthquake brought its stone walls down, every stone was put back exactly where it came from.

Shiroishi, Miyagi

Shiroishi Castle

白石城

The castle of Katakura Kojuro, right-hand man to Date Masamune: allowed to survive as the Sendai domain's second castle after the one-castle-per-province rule, with its three-story turret rebuilt in wood and clay in 1995.

Kasama, Ibaraki

Kasama Castle

笠間城

The worship hall of the shrine on the summit is said to be the castle's remodeled keep turret, on a mountain castle with stone walls, a rarity in the Kanto region.

Yonezawa, Yamagata

Yonezawa Castle

米沢城

The grounds of the shrine to Uesugi Kenshin are also the main enclosure of the castle where Date Masamune was born.

Miharu, Fukushima

Miharu Castle

三春城

Megohime, wife of Date Masamune, was born in this hilltop castle and married him at the age of 12.

Aizumisato, Fukushima

Mukaihaguroyama Castle

向羽黒山城

Three hills make up one castle: the vast mountain stronghold that Ashina Moriuji spent eight years building above the Aizu basin.

Kōriyama, Fukushima

Mutsu Moriyama Castle

守山城

Nihonmatsu, Fukushima

Obama Castle

小浜城

Date, Fukushima

Yanagawa Castle

梁川城

Kaminoyama, Yamagata

Nakayama Castle

中山城

Minamiaizu, Fukushima

Hisakawa Castle

久川城

Sukagawa, Fukushima

Naganuma castle(rikuo)

長沼城

Shirataka, Yamagata

Ayugai Castle

鮎貝城