Japan Castle Atlas
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Sakai, Fukui
丸岡城
An original castle keep that collapsed with its stone base in an earthquake, then was put back together using more than 70 percent of its old timbers.
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Himeji, Hyogo
姫路城
A 400-year-old main keep and its three smaller keeps still stand linked by covered corridors, never burned by battle or by bombing.
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Akashi, Hyogo
明石城
From the station platform you can see two three-story turrets standing at either end of a long stone wall.
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Shirakawa, Fukushima
白河小峰城
When the earthquake brought its stone walls down, every stone was put back exactly where it came from.
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Takatori, Nara
高取城
On a 583-meter mountaintop once stood a keep and 27 white turrets, so bright from the town below that a folk song mistook them for snow.
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Okazaki, Aichi
岡崎城
This is the castle where Tokugawa Ieyasu was born, and the well said to have supplied his first bath still survives on the grounds.
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Kakegawa, Shizuoka
掛川城
At the foot of a keep rebuilt in wood after 140 years stands an Edo-period palace that never left.
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Hamada, Shimane
浜田城
In 1866, with the Choshu army closing in, the Hamada domain set fire to its own castle and withdrew.
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Ōtaki, Chiba
大多喜城
A Showa-era keep crowns the hill, yet the only building left from the Edo period is a single gate beside the entrance of the high school below.
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Murakami, Niigata
村上城
On a small hill shaped like a lying ox, Sengoku-era trenches and Edo-period stone walls survive side by side.
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Yamatokōriyama, Nara
大和郡山城
Built into the stone base of the keep is a Jizo statue, set in upside down.
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Numata, Gunma
沼田城
The Sanada family raised a five-tiered keep on this clifftop castle, and its original ground still lies about 60 cm beneath the park's paths.
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Kameyama, Mie
亀山城
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Otsu, Shiga
膳所城
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Utsunomiya, Tochigi
宇都宮城
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Toyota, Aichi
寺部城
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Yurihonjo, Akita
本荘城
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Hirakata, Osaka
枚方城
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Kuwana, Mie
桑名城
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Fujieda, Shizuoka
田中城
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Shibukawa, Gunma
白井城
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Suzuka, Mie
神戸城
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Fukushima, Fukushima
福島城
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Tatsuno, Hyogo
龍野城
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Shisō, Hyogo
山崎城
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Niigata
糸魚川陣屋
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