Castle
Takamatsu Castle
🇯🇵 Japan
Takamatsu Castle (高松城, Takamatsu-jō) of Bitchū Province was a Sengoku period Japanese castle located in what is today the Kayo neighborhood of Kita-ku, Okayama in Okayama Prefecture. The style of the castle was a hirajō (flatland castle) with no stone walls, but only earthen walls. The castle was surrounded by marshes, which formed a natural moat. Its ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1902.
Text adapted from “Takamatsu Castle (Bitchū)” on Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Takamatsu Castle ranks #2,692 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #137 of the 155 mapped in Japan. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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