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Akashi, Hyogo
Akashi Castle
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From the station platform you can see two three-story turrets standing at either end of a long stone wall.
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Miyamoto Musashi
宮本武蔵
Celebrated swordsman of the early Edo period. Edo-period local histories say he laid out the street plan of Akashi's castle town when the castle was built.
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The Akashi-ki, a local history compiled in the 1716–1736 Kyoho era, records that a samurai named Musashi laid out the town. Inside the castle, the Yamazato bailey held the Jumoku Yashiki, a pleasure garden for the lord that Musashi is said to have designed.
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said to have laid out the castle townRecord source: article
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