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Tatsuoka Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 19th century
Tatsuoka Castle (龍岡城, Tatsuoka-jō) was a Bakumatsu period pentagonal "star fort" located in what is now part of the city of Saku, Nagano prefecture. It was the primary fortress of Tatsuoka Domain, ruled by the Ogyū-Matsudaira clan. Along with the Goryōkaku in Hakodate, Hokkaidō, it is one of only two star fortresses in Japan, and the castle ruins have been designated as a National Historic Site since 1934.
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Tatsuoka Castle ranks #3,140 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #165 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1867, it is older than 7% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 269 atlas entries founded in the 19th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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