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Matsusaka Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Matsusaka Castle (松坂城, Matsusaka-jō) was a Japanese castle (now in ruins) located in the city of Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture, Japan. Throughout most of the Edo period, Matsusaka Castle was a secondary administrative center for the Kishu-Tokugawa clan, daimyō of Kishū Domain. It has been protected as a National Historic Site since 2011.
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Matsusaka Castle ranks #3,132 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #162 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1588, it is older than 38% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 370 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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