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Fushimi Castle

伏見城

Fushimi Castle donjon
     
Founder Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Year 1594
Reconstructed 1964
Type Flatland
Condition Reconstructed
Rating ★ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Location Kyoto
Map Google Map
Access Momoyama Station (JR Nara Line)
Notes Not personally visited, pictures donated by Cesare Polenghi. According to my sources, the castle/museum is now closed and no longer open to the public. If anyone can confirm this please let me know.
History

The mock castle you see in the pictures here was built on this spot because the original location of Fushimi Castle is on Imperial property and cannot be entered.

It seems Fushimi Castle was never destined to have a successful life. The original Fushimi Castle was founded in 1594 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Just one year later it was destroyed in a great earthquake. Hideyoshi commanded another castle to be built near this location. He died a couple years after its completion. Tokugawa Ieyasu then moved into the castle which was destroyed in a battle before the battle of Sekigahara. He rebuilt the castle again only to have it dismantled as a part of his own one castle per country laws. Some of the yagura gained new life as the Fushimi Yagura at Fukuyama Castle and the Fushimi Yagura at Osaka Castle. Now it seems this reconstruction has also met its own end.

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  • John Andrews said ...
     Hello, Just got back from Japan and I did visit this castle and it's closed to the public. Still worth a visit though! I went on a week day and there was hardly anyone there so it's a good chance to get some excellent pics!
     May 27, 2008 at 05:12 AM
  • Anonymous said ...
     interesting
     April 16, 2008 at 04:06 PM