Ohmachi Kitahara Yakata

History

Visit Notes

This site, Kitahara-yakata, appears to be shown on Edo period maps as a square plot surrounded by a dry moat. Castle bloggers have identified dorui, but since their time even more development has enveloped the site, and the fields have been filled in gradually with new homes and maisonettes (between 1960 and 2021 the municipality’s population has declined from 41,000 to 25,000, but it seems urbanisation has slowly continued around the town centre). So I wasn’t able to find the dorui. Satellite images of what the site used to look like are our best clue now to identifying where ruins may have been.

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Castle Profile
English Name	Ohmachi Kitahara Yakata
Japanese Name	大町北原館
Founder	Nishina Clan
Year Founded	Medieval Era
Castle Type	Fortified Manor
Castle Condition	Ruins only
Historical Period	Pre Edo Period
Artifacts	Dorui
Features
Visitor Information
Access	Shinano-Ômachi Station on the Ôito Line; 24 minute walk
Visitor Information	24/7; Free; Fields
Time Required	10 minutes
Location	Ômachi, Nagano Prefecture
Coordinates	36° 30' 24.84" N, 137° 50' 51.36" E
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Admin
Added to Jcastle	2021
Contributor	ART
Admin Year Visited	Viewer Contributed

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