Japan · 16th century
Maruoka Castle (丸岡城, Maruoka-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle located in the Maruoka neighbourhood of the city of Sakai, Fukui Prefecture, in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It also called Kasumi-ga-jō (霞ヶ城, Mist Castle) due to the legend that whenever an enemy approaches the castle, a thick mist appears and hides it. Built at the end of the Sengoku period, the castle was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Maruoka Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. The site is now a public park noted for its sakura. The castle's relatively small tenshu (castle keep) claims to be the oldest in the country, a claim which is challenged by both Inuyama Castle and Matsumoto Castle.
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Maruoka Castle ranks #580 of 9,079 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #28 of the 296 mapped in Japan. Founded 1576, it is older than 34% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 891 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 7,974 times in the last 60 days, more than 92% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Gifu, 92 km away. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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