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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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Gifu
岐阜県
Explore the castles and castle sites of Gifu through photographs, municipalities and research status.
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Gifu, Gifu
Gifu Castle
岐阜城
The castle Oda Nobunaga used as his base for unifying Japan was an entire mountain.
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Gujō, Gifu
Gujō Hachiman Castle
郡上八幡城
A wooden keep built in 1933, modeled on Ogaki Castle before the war destroyed it, still stands on the mountaintop.
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Nakatsugawa, Gifu
Naegi Castle
苗木城
The keep stood on posts of different lengths set into holes cut in a giant boulder high above the Kiso River.
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Kani, Gifu
Kaneyama Castle
美濃金山城
Stone walls deliberately wrecked after Sekigahara still lie just as they were left 400 years ago.
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Ōgaki, Gifu
Ōgaki Castle
大垣城
Right up to the eve of the decisive battle at Sekigahara, this castle was Ishida Mitsunari's headquarters for the Western Army.
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Gujō, Gifu
Akadaniyama Castle
赤谷山城
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Nakatsugawa, Gifu
Agi Castle
阿木城
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- Japanese Wikipedia, "List of castles in Japan" (prefecture section)
- Japanese Wikipedia category "Castles in Gifu"
- Castle-related items on Wikidata
- OpenStreetMap historic=castle and related tags
- Japan Castle Foundation's 100 / Next 100 Fine Castles list
Sources to check next
- Prefectural survey reports on medieval and early-modern castle sites (Comprehensive Database of Archaeological Site Reports in Japan)
- Municipal lists of designated historic sites