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Yogaisan Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 16th century
Yōgaiyama Castle (要害山城, Yōgaiyama-jō) was a Sengoku period yamajiro located in Kai Province (present day Yamanashi Prefecture), constructed in the 1520s by the Takeda clan. Since 1991, the ruins have been protected as a National Historic Site since 1938. The castle is also known as the Sekisuiyama Castle (積翠山城, Sekisuiyama-jō).
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Yogaisan Castle ranks #3,444 of 3,811 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #194 of the 229 mapped in Japan. Founded 1520, it is older than 47% 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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