Castle
Mizuki
🇯🇵 Japan · 7th century
Mizuki Castle (水城跡, Mizuki-jō ato) was an ancient castle (also known as a Korean-style fortresses in Japan (朝鮮式山城, Chōsen-shiki yamajiro) straddling the border of the cities of Ōnojō, Dazaifu, and Kasuga, Fukuoka Prefecture Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1921, and raised to a Special National Historic Site since 1953 with the area under protection expanded in 2013.
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Mizuki ranks #2,126 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #98 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 664, it is older than 98% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 14 atlas entries founded in the 7th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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