Japan · 15th century
Tatsuno Castle ranks #2,554 of 9,040 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #146 of the 295 mapped in Japan. Founded 1499, it is older than 43% of the atlas's dated landmarks, one of 556 atlas entries founded in the 15th century. Its Wikipedia articles were opened 17,084 times in the last 60 days, more than 97% of the atlas. 3 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Himeji, 14 km away. It is one of the 69 landmarks on the atlas's regional map of Kansai. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
Tatsuno Castle (Japanese 龍野城, Tatsuno-jō) is located in the town of Tatsuno in Hyōgo Prefecture. In the Edo period the Wakizaka last resided there as medium-sized tozama daimyō of Tatsuno with an income of 53,000 koku, namely at the end of the Edo period: larger parts of the districts of Ittō and Issai and some villages from the Shikisai district (together roughly the area of the present-day towns of Tatsuno and Taishi and a western strip of Himeji) in Harima Province, as well as parts of several districts of Mimasaka Province.
Machine-translated from “Burg Tatsuno” on the German Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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