Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Sites

Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Sites (根室半島チャシ跡群, Nemuro hantō chashi ato-gun) is a grouping of twenty-four Ainu chashi on the Nemuro Peninsula in Nemuro, Hokkaidō, Japan that have been jointly designated a national Historic Site, out of a total of thirty-two chashi sites identified in the city. The grouping is also the first entry on the Japan Castle Foundation's 2006 list of Japan's Top 100 Castles. Typically found at elevations of 5 metres (16 ft) to 50 metres (160 ft) above sea level, they are mostly situated on bluffs overlooking the Sea of Okhotsk, reinforced with U-shaped or semicircular moats. Relative to many of those elsewhere on the island, their state of preservation is good. They are thought to date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and are associated with the 1789 Menashi–Kunashir rebellion.

Charukorofina No.1 Chashi (チャルコロフィナ1号チャシ跡)

Charukorofina No.2 Chashi (チャルコロフィナ2号チャシ跡)

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Nemuro Peninsula Chashi Sites ranks #3,485 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #198 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1789, it is older than 15% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 274 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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