Inuyama-Jo

Location

Inuyama city, Aichi prefecture

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Inuyama-Jo is small. It has an odd shape, as though the builder decided, after building the first two floors, to skip the third and jump straight to the fourth. That's how it looks to me.

This castle has the distinction of being the oldest still-standing castle in Japan. Even the venerable Himeji-Jo had to be rebuilt more recently than Inuyama-Jo. It also has the distinction of being the only privately owned castle in Japan.

- by Takashi Toyooka (E-mail)