Castle
Yamanaka Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Yamanaka Castle (山中城, Yamanaka-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro-style Japanese castle, built by the Odawara Hōjō clan in Tagata District, Izu Province, in what is now eastern Mishima, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. The ruins have been protected by the central government as a National Historic Site since 1988.
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Yamanaka Castle ranks #2,684 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #136 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1600, it is older than 35% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 307 atlas entries founded in the 16th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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