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• Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Traditional: Architecture  (13)
• Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History: Feudal Period  (13)

Castles of Japan - Dale Kenny lists over 300 castles, and provides a photograph for many of those which survive..

Castles of Japan - Aryn Lickey provides a computer aided montage of how Yonago Castle might have appeared, with a map of its location..

Castles of Japan - Takashi Toyooka offers a location map, brief description, thumbnail photographs and any relevant links for each castle. Select via an interactive map or an index. Bibliography..

The Castles of Japan - ThinkQuest provides an illustrated guide to surviving castles, together with the historic context and design features. Includes a bibliography and simulations of castle-storming..

Gifu Castle - Size of a building, former inhabitant, photo,access information..

Goryokaku - Constructed reason,record of war,size of building..

Guide to Japanese Castles - Eric Obershaw provides a general history and description of castles in Japan, and photographs of castles he has visited, with histories taken from the official brochures and display text..

Inuyama Castle - History, scale, video clip and successive owner..

Japanese Castle - History, movie, and links..

Japanese Castles - List of castle ruins and history..

Japanese Castles - A few photographs by Jamie Marconi of the more famous castles in Japan..

Japanese castles - Structures, castle town, history, guard tower and wall and moat..

Kumamoto Castle Photo - Photograph in inside and surrounding area in castle..

Matsumoto Castle - History, design and photograph of castle tower and decoration..

Nijo Castle - Kyoto castle built by the first Tokugawa shogun..

Oshiro Meguri Fan - Gallery in Japan castle and city's setting..

Shiro: A Japanese Castle - Stephen Wyley discusses the development and aspects of Japanese castles. Drawings by Steven Lowe..

Shurijo Castle - History, draw up a city plan, video and people of castle..

Virtual Tour Himeji Castle - History, map, tour and gallery of photographs of this magnificent timber castle on a stone base, built in 1601 by Terumasa Ikeda - a World Heritage site. By Hakurotowa No Kai..

Wikipedia: Azuchi Castle - An illustrated history and description of this fortress built 1576-1579 by Oda Nobunaga on the shores of Lake Biwa..

Wikipedia: Edo Castle - An illustrated history and description of this castle built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in what is now the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo..

Wikipedia: Osaka Castle - An illustrated history and description of this important castle, built from 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi..