Rebuilt in wood in 1994: the first keep rebuilt this way in the whole of Japan.
The white keep you see today is not painted reinforced concrete, as almost everywhere else: it is the first reconstruction of a Japanese castle entirely in wood, completed in 1994 following the period drawing. Next to it stands the castle palace (御殿), original from the Edo period and a national Important Cultural Property, one of only four surviving castle palaces in Japan.
A Sengoku-period fortress, badly damaged by the Ansei earthquake of 1854 and dismantled in the Meiji era. The present keep, three storeys high on a stone base, was rebuilt in 1994 in solid wood after a long effort to collect period drawings and documents: an almost unique case among Japanese castles, nearly all of which were rebuilt in concrete after the war.
ℹ️ Keep and palace open 9:00–17:00 (last entry 16:30), all year round with no closing days. Tickets: adults 410 yen, students 150 yen. Seven minutes on foot from JR Kakegawa Station. Paid car parks near the Ōtemon and the castle park.
🚉 Kakegawa · 10 min walk
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