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Kawagoe Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 15th century

Kawagoe Castle in Japan
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Kawagoe Castle (川越城, Kawagoe-jō) is a flatland Japanese castle in the city of Kawagoe, in Japan's Saitama Prefecture. It is the closest castle to Tokyo to be accessible to visitors, as Edo castle is now the Imperial palace, and largely inaccessible.

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Kawagoe Castle ranks #2,138 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #102 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1457, it is older than 52% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 162 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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