Castle
Nirayama Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 15th century
Nirayama Castle (韮山城, Nirayama-jō) was a hilltop Japanese castle, now in ruins, located in the Nirayama neighborhood of the city of Izunokuni, Shizuoka, in the Tōkai region of Japan. It existed from the late Muromachi period to the Azuchi-Momoyama period. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 2025.
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Nirayama Castle ranks #3,962 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #210 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1493, it is older than 50% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 224 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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