Castle town

Castle Town / 城下町

This is a subtype of Features

During the Sengoku Period the importance of castles grew as military and government functions became centralized around them. The castle town was viewed as an extension of the castle's defenses. The roads surrounding it are a maze of dead ends, T-junctions, and narrow winding streets. With the increasing administrative role of castles they also became the economic center of the domain. Vassals moved their personal quarters near the castles, peasants, artisans and businessmen soon followed and the successive expansion of these castle towns led to what are some of the largest cities in Japan today. Much of the layout and planning of Tokyo was designed by the Tokugawa to be built around the castle.

The classification of "castle town" is subjective. Many more castles had castle towns than what have been tagged here. I only tagged castles where there are sufficient remnants to give you some atmosphere of a castle town. If you think others should be tagged likewise, please let me know.

Castles with Castle Town

1. Aki Castle
2. Annaka Castle
3. Arikoyama Castle
4. Bitchu Matsuyama Castle
5. Echizen Ohno Castle
6. Hagi Castle
7. Hikone Castle
8. Hirosaki Castle
9. Hizen Kashima Castle
10. Ichijodani Castle
11. Iwakuni Castle
12. Iwamura Castle
13. Izushi Castle
14. Kaibara Jinya
15. Kakunodate Castle
16. Kanazawa Castle
17. Kanegasaki Castle (Iwate)
18. Kawagoe Castle
19. Matsue Castle
20. Matsushiro Castle
21. Miki Castle
22. Obata Jin'ya
23. Obi Castle
24. Omi Hachiman Castle
25. Takatori Castle
26. Takayama Jin'ya
27. Tsuwano Castle

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