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Sakamoto Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century

Sakamoto Castle in Japan
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Sakamoto Castle (坂本城, Sakamoto-jō) was a lakeside castle in the Sengoku period, located in Ōtsu, Shiga Prefecture, Japan.

Akechi Mitsuhide was the commander of the castle.

Text adapted from “Sakamoto Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Sakamoto Castle ranks #3,017 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #153 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1571, it is older than 41% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 437 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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