Castles & Sites

On the third day of the third lunar month of 1868 — 3 April by the Gregorian calendar, not the […]

The reason I keep coming back to Inuyama is that from the top-floor veranda of its four-storey keep you can

After the Imperial army broke the 53-day siege of Kumamoto Castle in April 1877 and Saigō Takamori began his long

On the morning of 4 July 1945, a single incendiary bomb fell onto the sixth floor of Himeji Castle’s main

The reason Matsumoto Castle is still standing is that, in November 1872, a local man named Ichikawa Ryōzō bought it

Azuchi Castle existed for six years. Nobunaga’s carpenters finished the seven-storey tenshu in the fifth month of 1579. His retainer

On a summer day in 1567, Oda Nobunaga stood at the summit of a mountain he had just captured, looked

Hashihaka Kofun is the oldest large-scale burial mound in Japan, and possibly the single most important unexcavated archaeological site in

Nishio Castle is the castle in the other matcha capital. Most English-language Japan coverage of matcha green-tea culture stops at