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Japan Castles

• Azuchi Castle - Shiga built by Nobunaga Oda.Castle tower, history,access to involved museum.
• Castles of Japan - Takashi Toyooka offers a location map, brief description, thumbnail photographs and any relevant links for each castle. Select via an interactive map or an index. Bibliography.
• Castles of Japan - Definition, history, design, simulation life environment of warrior and farmer and merchant.
• Castles of Japan - Aryn Lickey provides a computer aided montage of how Yonago Castle might have appeared, with a map of its location.
• Edo Castle - Full details regarding castle, map, photo.
• Gifu Castle - Size of a building, former inhabitant, photo, access information.
• Goryokaku - Constructed reason, record of war, size of building.
• Guide to Japanese Castles - Eric Obershaw provides a general history and description of castles in Japan, and photographs of castles he has visited, with histories taken from the official brochures and display text.
• Inuyama Castle - History, scale, video clip and successive owner.
• Japanese Castle - History, movie, and links.
• Japanese Castles - List of castle ruins and history.
• Japanese Castles - A few photographs by Jamie Marconi of the more famous castles in Japan.
• Japanese castles - Structures, castle town, history, guard tower and wall and moat.
• Kumamoto Castle Photo - Photograph in inside and surrounding area in castle.
• Matsumoto Castle - History, design and photograph of castle tower and decoration.
• Nijo Castle - Kyoto castle built by the first Tokugawa shogun.
• Osaka Castle - Osaka built by Hideyoshi Toyotommi.Picture,history and access to the castle and maps of the surrounding area.
• Oshiro Meguri Fan - Gallery in Japan castle and city's setting.
• Shiro: A Japanese Castle - Stephen Wyley discusses the development and aspects of Japanese castles. Drawings by Steven Lowe.
• Shurijo Castle - History, draw up a city plan, video and people of castle.
• Virtual Tour Himeji Castle - History, map, tour and gallery of photographs of this magnificent timber castle on a stone base, built in 1601 by Terumasa Ikeda - a World Heritage site. By Hakurotowa No Kai.

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