Castle
Tsurugaoka Castle
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Tsurugaoka Castle (鶴ヶ岡城, Tsurugaoka-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle constructed in early Edo period in the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata. It was the seat of the Sakai clan, a fudai daimyō clan who ruled over Shōnai Domain, Dewa Province in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan under the Tokugawa shogunate.
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Tsurugaoka Castle ranks #3,442 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #193 of the 229 mapped in Japan. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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