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Hachimanyama Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century

Hachimanyama Castle in Japan
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Hachimanyama Castle (八幡山城, Hachimanyama-jō) was a castle in Ōmihachiman, Japan, on the eastern shore of Lake Biwa in Shiga prefecture. It was the home castle of Toyotomi Hidetsugu, the nephew of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

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Hachimanyama Castle ranks #3,405 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #188 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1585, it is older than 38% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 370 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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