Castle
Kameyama Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Kameyama Castle (亀山城, Kameyama-jō) is a castle located in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It guarded the northwest passage into Kyoto for nearly three hundred years.
The castle was built by Oda Nobunaga's vassal Akechi Mitsuhide because he needed a front base to conquer Tanba region. He set out for Honnō-ji (Honnō-ji Incident) from the castle in 1582. After the Meiji period revolution, all the remaining structures of the castle were removed or destroyed.
In 2019, Akechi Mistuhide's statue was built in the castle.
Text adapted from “Kameyama Castle (Kyoto)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Kameyama Castle ranks #2,359 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #114 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1578, 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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