Castle
Yonezawa Castle
🇯🇵 Japan · 13th century
Yonezawa Castle (米沢城, Yonezawa-jō) is a flatland-style Japanese castle located in the center of the city of Yonezawa, southern Yamagata Prefecture, Japan. Throughout the Edo period, Yonezawa Castle was home to the Uesugi clan, daimyō of Yonezawa Domain.
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Yonezawa Castle ranks #2,234 of 3,691 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #107 of the 155 mapped in Japan. Founded 1238, it is older than 76% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 356 atlas entries founded in the 13th century. See how Japan compares in the castle statistics.
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