390 metres from the base to the keep: the highest mountain castle in Japan.
You climb 390 metres of elevation from the base to the keep (the greatest height difference of any mountain castle in Japan) up to stone walls that are all that remains: no building has survived. The walls were plastered white, and for this reason the castle was called Fuyō-jō, ‘lotus castle’: a poet wrote that ‘it looks like snow, but it is not snow’.
One of the three great mountain castles of Japan, built in 1332 by Ochi Kunizumi as a support fortress and enlarged in 1589 by Honda Toshihisa. In 1953 it was designated a National Historic Site, and in 2006 it was added to the list of Japan's hundred finest castles (日本100名城).
ℹ️ An open ruin, free of charge, reachable only on foot with a climb of 390 metres of elevation from the base.
🚉 Tsubosakadera-mae · 24 min walk
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