Tokugawa Ieyasu was born here in 1542; the present tower is a 1959 rebuild.
The castle was built between 1452 and 1455 by the Saigō clan on the tip of Ryūtō-yama, a peninsula-shaped terrace about 24 metres high. It later became the base of the Matsudaira, and here in 1542 Takechiyo was born, the future Tokugawa Ieyasu. The tenshu was dismantled in the Meiji era; the one you see today, in reinforced concrete, 28 metres high, with three tiers of roofs and five floors inside, is a reconstruction completed on 25 March 1959 and opened on 11 April, at a cost of 57 million yen.
The park that now surrounds the castle also houses the Tokugawa Ieyasu-kan museum, devoted to the life of the founder of the shogunate, and it remains the starting point of every local account of the three great unifiers born in Aichi.
ℹ️ Tenshu 9:00–17:00, last entry 16:30, closed 29–31/12. Tickets: adults 300 yen (concession 250); combined ticket with the Tokugawa Ieyasu-kan 650 yen for adults.
🚉 Okazakikōen-mae · 9 min walk
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