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Torigoe Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Torigoe Castle (鳥越城, Torigoe-jō) was a Sengoku period yamashiro-style Japanese castle located in the Torigoe area of what is now part of the city of Hakusan, Ishikawa Prefecture in the Hokuriku region of Honshu, Japan. Its ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1985. The National Historic Site consists of the ruins of two castles, Torigoe Castle and Futoge Castle. The two castles were built on two mountaintops with the Dainichi River between them in 1573 as the final bastions for the Kaga Ikkō-Ikki movement.
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Torigoe Castle ranks #3,628 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #224 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1580, it is older than 39% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 370 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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