Echizen Ōno Castle (‘castle in the sky’) 越前大野城
On misty dawns from October to April, the castle seems to hang above a sea of clouds.
Built between 1576 and 1580 by Kanamori Nagachika, who received the 30,000 koku of Ōno province as a reward, it burned down in 1775 and remained a stone base for almost two centuries. The current tenshu, in reinforced concrete over four storeys, was rebuilt in 1968 from historical drawings and on the model of castles of the same period, with no claim to complete historical accuracy: today it houses a museum and an observation deck.
Fukui
Echizen-Ono, Kita-Ono
