Japanese Castles

Japanese Castle Guides

Japan has hundreds of castles scattered throughout the country. Many have been restored after damage in World War II, some as recently as only 20 years ago, others are the original, historic buildings.

Much of Japan's medieval history took place behind the heavily fortified stone walls and wide moats of Japan's castles, which governed and protected the surrounding countryside.

Many of Japan's castles were built in the fiftheenth and sixteenth centuries, when the country seemed constantly in a state of vicious warfare.

The towns which grew up around the fortresses in the Tokugawa period where peopled with merchants, artisans and entertainers, who serviced the feudal lord and his samurai community within.

Visiting any Japanese castle should transport the visitor back, however fleetingly to a pre-modern Japan of arms and armor, samurai and artisans.

Osaka Castle	Nagoya Castle	Himeji Castle	Kumamoto Castle
Gifu Castle	Inuyama Castle	Matsue Castle	Okazaki Castle

Hikone Castle	Matsumoto Castle	Nagahama Castle	Nijo Castle
Kanazawa Castle	Kiyosu Castle	Ueno Castle	Marugame Castle

Kochi Castle	Matsuyama Castle	Takamatsu Castle	Wakayama Castle
Matsusaka Castle	Fushimi Castle	Edo Castle	Shiroishi Castle
Kakegawa Castle	Kofu Castle	Kokura Castle	Toyama Castle

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