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I usually consider Sports Day in Japan (second Monday of October) to be the beginning of castle season. It's often too hot with too many bugs and weeds before this time of the year to really enjoy visiting most of the out-of-the-way castle ruins. Most importably is that the weeds can really obscure your enjoyment of identifying castle ruins. While the weeds haven't dried up yet, it's about as long as I can wait and if you carefully select your sites you can have a good time. This time I was not so lucky. Both [[Shinpu Castle]] and [[Yumurayama Castle]] were so heavily overgrown it was difficult to see the trenches and embankments, not to mention dodging huge spider webs everywhere. Still though, as I often say, "any day at a castle is better than one not spent at a castle." [[Yumurayama Castle]] was also the 250th different castle site that I've visited. Despite the weeds, one reason I like to visit Yamanashi around this time of the year is that I always get some incredible grapes to take back home. Yamanashi makes the best grapes in the world. This year I particularly enjoyed a new variety called "Violet King", a seedless hybrid of two popular varieties: Shine Muscat and Wink.
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