Ruin
Sakura Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 17th century
- Country
- 🇯🇵 Japan
- Type
- Ruin
- Fame
- Hidden gem
- Century
- 17th century
- Founded
- 1610
- Coordinates
- 35.72199°, 140.21672°
- Open data
- Wikidata Q8014937
Sakura Castle (佐倉城, Sakura-jō) was a 17th-century castle, now in ruins, in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture. It was designated one of Japan's Top 100 Castles by the Japanese Castle Foundation.
Text adapted from “Sakura Castle” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sakura Castle ranks #2,103 of 2,435 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #91 of the 101 mapped in Japan. Founded 1610, it is older than 37% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 174 atlas entries founded in the 17th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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