Result for: castles

Destination Nagasaki
Speciality Castles

Shimabara Castle

A picture-perfect castle with a not so picture-perfect history.

However, castles burning down happened a lot during Japanese history (no one seems to have caught on that wooden buildings are not a good mix when it comes to war and lightning…) and as a result, the reconstruction is fantastic...

Hiroshima Castle

While many Japanese castles share similar architectural designs, Hiroshima Castle has every imaginable feature associated with a medieval fortress: a large moat, massive stone walls, as well as bridges and baileys to boot...

Odawara

Tourists looking for castles or towns rich in Japanese traditional culture often opt for Nagoya or Osaka, but why travel so far when this beauty is on Tokyo’s doorstep...

Kabukiza Theater

After countless reconstructions (the fault of electrical fires or wartime) from its foundation in 1889 onwards, it has pretty much consistently been rebuilt in a baroque Japanese revivalist style, meant to evoke the architectural details of Japanese castles, as well as temples of the pre-Edo period...

Shikotsu-Toya National Park

The colorfully lit ice sculptures and ice castles look like they came straight out of the movie Frozen...

Fukuoka Castle Ruins

An architect, Noguchi Kazushige, whose work on the Osaka and Edo Castles was renowned, was tasked with building the stone walls of Fukuoka Castle...