Castle
Fukui Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 17th century
Fukui Castle (福井城, Fukui-jō) is a flatland-style castle located in what is now the city of Fukui, Fukui Prefecture, Japan. During the Edo period, it was the headquarters of a branch of the Matsudaira clan, who were hereditary daimyō of Fukui domain under the Tokugawa shogunate. The castle was also known by the name of Kitanoshō Castle (北ノ庄城, Kitanoshō-jō), after an earlier castle built by Shibata Katsuie, over whose ruins it is partly built.
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Fukui Castle ranks #2,058 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #92 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1606, it is older than 34% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 259 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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