Castle
Maizuru Castle Park
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Kōfu Castle (甲府城, Kōfu jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Kōfu, Yamanashi Prefecture, in the Chubu region of Japan. The site has been protected as a National Historic Site since 2019. The castle is also known as Maizuru Castle, and the present-day surroundings are called Maizuru Castle Park (舞鶴公園, Maizuru-jō Kōen).
Text adapted from “Maizuru Castle Park” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Maizuru Castle Park ranks #2,338 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #112 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1583, it is older than 39% 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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