Castle
Hachiōji Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Hachiōji Castle (八王子城, Hachiōji-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle, located in what is now the city of Hachiōji, Tokyo, in the Kantō region of Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1951, with the area under protection extended in 2005.
It is called Hachioji because Hachioji Gongen a deity of the Gion faith. is enshrined there.
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Hachiōji Castle ranks #2,041 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #89 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1571, it is older than 40% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 307 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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