Hachiōji Castle 八王子城跡
A castle that fell in a single day, 23 June 1590; an hour's trail up to the Honmaru.
A mountain castle built by the Hōjō clan in the late sixteenth century for Hōjō Ujiteru, third son of the daimyō (feudal lord) Hōjō Ujiyasu. It fell on 23 June 1590 to the assault of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troops: its fall persuaded Odawara, the last Hōjō stronghold, to surrender shortly afterwards, ending the clan's rule over the Kantō. The Goshuden area was restored in 1990, on the four hundredth anniversary of the fall, reusing stones and paving found in the excavations. Since 2006 the castle has been on the list of the hundred castles of Japan (日本100名城) of the Japan Castle Foundation, at number 22.
Tokyo
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