Pre Edo Period Castles of Edo
Pre Edo Period Castles of Edo
2022/02/06
The plain around modern day Tokyo is relatively flat, so any higher areas, including the site of Edo castle itself, were popular places for building castles and fortifications. I've covered a few such sites in the past but I tend to go outside Tokyo when I'm in the mood to go castle-ing. I recently took advantage of an unexpected break in the schedule on a nice weather day to visit some of these sites that had been on my radar for years. There's not a lot to see at most of these sites as they've become shrines but combined together they make a nice story and day out walking around Tokyo.
You can walk (as I did) from Dokanyama → Hiratsuka Castle → Asukayama Castle → Takinogawa Castle but from here I took a bus from Oji Station to Itabashi Castle and then took a train to Shibuya Castle to round out this busy and long day.
Asukayama Castle / 飛鳥山城
Dokanyama / 道灌山
Hiratsuka Castle / 平塚城
Itabashi Castle / 板橋城
Shibuya Castle / 渋谷城
Takinogawa Castle / 滝野川城
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