Castle
Iwadeyama Castle
🇯🇵 Japan
Iwadeyama Castle (岩出山城, Iwadeyama-jō) was a castle in Ōsaki, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan.
After serving Hideyoshi for a time, Date Masamune was given Iwatesawa castle and the surrounding lands as his home domain. Masamune moved there in 1591, rebuilt the castle, renamed it Iwadeyama, and encouraged the growth of a town at its base. Masamune stayed at Iwadeyama for 13 years and turned the region into a major political and economic center.
After the Meiji revolution, all the remaining structures of the castle were removed or destroyed.
Text adapted from “Iwadeyama Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Iwadeyama Castle ranks #3,703 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #190 of the 297 mapped in Japan. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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