Castle
Numazu Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 18th century
Numazu Castle (沼津城, Numazu-jō) was a Japanese castle located in the city of Numazu, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. It was a hirayama-jō, a castle built on a plains rather than a hill or mountain. During the Edo period, Numazu castle was home to the Mizuno clan, daimyō of Numazu Domain under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Numazu Castle ranks #4,203 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #233 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1780, it is older than 16% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 329 atlas entries founded in the 18th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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