Castle
Kuroi Castle
🇯🇵 Japan
Kuroi Castle (黒井城, Kuroi-jō) was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is now the Kasuga-cho neighborhood of the city of Tamba Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It was also called Hogetsu Castle (保月城, Hogetsu-jō) or Hōzuki Castle (保築城, Hōzuki-jō). Famous as the birthplace of Lady Kasuga, the wet nurse of Tokugawa Iemitsu, it ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1989.
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Kuroi Castle ranks #3,096 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #157 of the 229 mapped in Japan. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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