Castle
Kururi Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 15th century
Kururi Castle (久留里城, Kururi-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kimitsu, southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kururi Castle was home to a branch of the Kuroda clan, daimyō of Kururi Domain. The castle was also known as Rain Castle (雨城, U-jō), after a legend that it rained twenty-one times during its construction, or, on average, once every three days. It is located on a 227 meter hill.
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Kururi Castle ranks #3,568 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #179 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1456, it is older than 53% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 224 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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