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Hamamatsu Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century

Hamamatsu Castle in Japan
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Hamamatsu Castle (浜松城, Hamamatsu-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle ruin, with some replica castle buildings. It was the seat of various fudai daimyō who ruled over Hamamatsu Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. It is also called Shusse Castle (出世城, Shusse-jō).

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Hamamatsu Castle ranks #1,865 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #80 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1532, it is older than 46% 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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