Added 22 new castle profiles from users
Added 22 New Castle Profiles From Users
2017/10/01
While working on my own updates, I've been steadily adding several profiles contributed by Jcastle users. Over the last 2 months I've added the following 22 profiles donated by ART and Furinkazan. Thanks guys !! You really help to make this site the premier source for information about Japanese Castles.
If anyone is interested in contributing castles or photos, please see the User Contributions page linked in the footer. Please be sure of the correct name and location and add at least one photo.
Asuke Castle / 足助城
There are several ways to get at Asuke. From Nagoya, you may take a Ltd. Express at the Meitetsu Nagoya Station, on the Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line, bound for Toyohashi. Get off at Higashi-Okazaki Station, after a 30min ride (660yen). At the North Exit, at bus stop 4, take the bus n°8 bound for Asuke. After a 70min ride(800yen) get off at bus stop Korankei Ichinotaniguchi. From there it's 1.5 km to the castle. Another way to go back to is to take a bus at bus stop Korankei (in front of Asuke Hachiman shrine). It's also bus n°8, but of the Toyota-city bus company. It is bound for Toyota Welfare Hospital. After a 50min ride(500yen) get off at Josui Station. This station is on the Meitetsu Toyota Line. Get a ticket for Nagoya. At Akaike Station the line becomes the Nagoya Subway Tsurumai Line and you are back in Nagoya.
Asuke is very well known for it's momiji (red maples) in November. The Korankei is a valley with thousands of maple trees. During this period there are frequently traffic jams, which lengthens the time considerably with the bus. The Sanshu Asuke Yashiki is also located in the Korankei Valley. There are several old buildings used by different artisans : paper makers, weavers, etc. The Korankei valley seems to be a spot that is popular in summer too. There were many people playing around and in the river on a hot day.
Original Profile by Furinkazan (2017) - Notes and photos updated by Eric (2020).Fujita Castle / 藤田城
Funaoka Castle / 船岡城
Futoge Castle / 二曲城
Hakusan Castle (Harima) / 播磨白山城
Iwaseyama Castle / 岩瀬山城
Kanbe Castle / 神戸城
Kaneyama Castle (Mutsu) / 陸奥金山城
Minokubi Castle / 蓑首城
Moriyama Castle / 守山城
Oh'eda Castle / 大枝城
Ohkusa Castle / 大草城
Ohmori Castle / 大森城
Ohno Castle (Owari) / 尾張大野城
Saimyoji Castle / 西明寺城
Profile and photos contributed by ART
Shishido Jin'ya / 宍戸陣屋
Tahara Castle / 田原城
Tanagura Castle / 棚倉城
Torigoe Castle / 鳥越城
Yamagata Castle (Hitachi) / 常陸山方城
Yamazaki Castle / 山崎城
For such a well known site, I was a little disappointed in this one because there were not as many clear ruins as I had expected to see. Around the honmaru you can find a few stones remaining from the original stonework and a few more if you pick around in the wooded sides of the bailey. There is also a bailey with a well and some slight earthen embankments and several side baileys. The most clear embankments are those of the honmaru and the bailey with the well. Looking at the map there should have been a tatedorui (vertical running earthen embankment) from the honmaru but with a lot of similar looking ground it was a bit difficult to make it out. The highlight of this castle is definitely the giant trench around the Northeast side that is not often covered in other materials about the castle. If you visit Yamazaki Castle, it would could be good to plan in some of the other attractions related to the battle with Akechi Mitsuhide like his encampment at the Igenoyama Kofun and Shoryuji Castle. I got a late start due to a long train stoppage and then some unexpected rain dumped on me on the way back to the station so I called it quits after the castle. (Eric 2022)
Photos updated from Eric's trip in 2022.Yanagawa Castle / 梁川城
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