Tokugawa clan | Japan Castle Atlas

Kyoto

Nijō Castle

二条城

Built in the year the Tokugawa shogunate began, it still has the hall where the shogun announced he would give power back.

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Wakayama, Wakayama

Wakayama Castle

和歌山城

A covered bridge with a roof and walls crosses the moat at a slant, built so the lord and the women of his household could pass unseen.

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Osaka

Osaka Castle

大阪城

Under the stone walls you see today, Hideyoshi's original Osaka Castle lies buried.

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Komoro, Nagano

Komoro Castle

小諸城

To reach this castle you walk down from the town, not up: Komoro is a "hole castle."

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Chiyoda, Tokyo

Edo Castle

江戸城

After its 58-meter keep burned in 1657, it was never rebuilt; only the huge stone base remains, in a garden of the Imperial Palace.

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Kofu, Yamanashi

Maizuru Castle Park

甲府城

Kofu Station itself stands on the site of one of the castle's enclosures.

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The Ote-mon main gate at the end of the Ote Bridge (August 2024). The gate was rebuilt in wood in 2020.

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Mito, Ibaraki

Mito Castle

水戸城

The castle of the Mito Tokugawa, one of the shogun's three senior branch families, defended not by stone walls but by deep moats and earthen ramparts.

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Shizuoka

Sunpu Castle

駿府城

Under the lawn of a city park, excavators found two keep bases built by Tokugawa Ieyasu in two different eras, one on top of the other.

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The front of Takeda Shrine seen from Takeda-dori, May 2014. The red bridge crosses the residence's moat, with stone walls on either side. The shrine grounds are the site of the Takeda residence.

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Tsutsujigasaki Castle

武田氏館

The residence where Takeda Shingen lived is now the grounds of a shrine where he is worshiped.

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Tsutsujigasaki Castle

武田氏館

The residence where Takeda Shingen lived is now the grounds of a shrine where he is worshiped.

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Takasaki, Gunma

Minowa Castle

箕輪城

In just over 30 years it passed from the Takeda to the Oda, the Hojo and the Tokugawa, until Ii Naomasa moved the castle to Takasaki and it was abandoned.

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