Castle
Miharu Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Miharu Castle (三春城, Miharu-jō) is a hilltop-style Japanese castle located in the town of Miharu, Tamura District, Fukushima Prefecture, in the southern Tōhoku region of Japan. It is also called Maizuru Castle (舞鶴城). Built in 1543, the castle and its surrounding land are maintained by the government of Japan as a public park. Constructed during the Sengoku period, the castle was occupied by a succession of daimyō of Miharu Domain under the Edo period Tokugawa shogunate. Today, the site is a public park, renowned for its sakura.
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Miharu Castle ranks #3,537 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #207 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1504, it is older than 48% 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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