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Hinoe Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 13th century

Hinoe Castle in Japan
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The Hinoe Castle (日野江城, Hinoe-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle cemetery located in the Kita-Arima neighbourhood of city of Minamishimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture Japan. Its ruins were designated a National Historic Site of Japan in 1972.

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Hinoe Castle ranks #3,230 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #164 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1210, it is older than 79% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 478 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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