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Hirado, Nagasaki
Hirado Castle
平戸城
Its lord burned his own castle just before it was finished, and it was rebuilt a century later.
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Nagasaki
長崎県
Explore the castles and castle sites of Nagasaki through photographs, municipalities and research status.
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Shimabara, Nagasaki
Shimabara Castle
島原城
A castle said to be far too grand for a minor lord held off the insurgents of the Shimabara Rebellion.
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Tsushima, Nagasaki
Kaneda Castle
金田城
On the border island of Tsushima, stone walls built some 1,350 years ago still ring a rocky headland: the front-line fortress raised after Japan's defeat at Baekgang.
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Goto, Nagasaki
Ishida Castle
福江城
The gates of the last castle completed in the Edo period now see high school students cycling through them every morning on their way to class.
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Minamishimabara, Nagasaki
Hara Castle
原城
After the uprising, the shogunate wrecked the castle where the rebels had held out and buried it in earth; excavations from the 1990s on brought its stone walls and devotional objects back to light.
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Matsuura, Nagasaki
Kajitani Castle
梶谷城
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Iki, Nagasaki
Katsumoto Castle
勝本城
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Tsushima, Nagasaki
Kaneishi Castle
金石城
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Sources checked
- Japanese Wikipedia, "List of castles in Japan" (prefecture section)
- Japanese Wikipedia category "Castles in Nagasaki"
- 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