Marugame Castle 丸亀城
Walls 60 metres high in four tiers, the tallest in Japan; original tenshu from 1660.
A fortress founded in 1597 by Ikoma Chikamasa, it was dismantled at the beginning of the seventeenth century under the shogunate's edict against two castles in one province, and then rebuilt by the Kyōgoku clan in the middle of the century: the present three-storey tenshu dates from 1660. The tenshu (designated in 1950) and the two Ōte gates (designated in 1957) are national Important Cultural Properties; the castle is one of the 100 Famous Castles of Japan.
Kagawa
Marugame
