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Shakujii Castle

🇯🇵 Japan · 12th century

Shakujii Castle in Japan
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Shakujii castle (石神井城, -jō) was a Japanese castle along the Shakujii River, in what is now Shakujii Park, in Tokyo's Nerima. The history of the inheritance of the feudal territory associated with it is the most clearly known of all territories in what is today Tokyo.

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Shakujii Castle ranks #4,188 of 5,479 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #232 of the 297 mapped in Japan. Founded 1185, it is older than 84% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 267 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.

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