Futae Castle (Azumi)

History

Visit Notes

Futaejō is a hilltop fort site in the Futae neighbourhood of Miasa Township, Ômachi Municipality. The site is completely overgrown, making any remains hard to identify. This was the low point of my cycling (and hiking) tour of seven fortification sites that day. I got into the central bailey area, coated in sticky seeds from pest plants. It seems the fort consisted of a single bailey complex with a concentric obikuruwa (belt bailey) wrapping around the main bailey at the top of the hill. An old road goes through the north of the site, obscuring the extent of the obikuruwa, however. There are supposedly such features as terraced sub-baileys, dorui (earthen ramparts) and tatebori (climbing moats), but, since the site is overgrown with undesirable vegetation, I could not readily identify these features, and it seems that they must be anyway very deformed by now.

Gallery

Flattened hilltop, bailey

Castle Profile
English Name	Futae Castle (Azumi)
Japanese Name	安曇二重城
Founder	Futae Clan
Year Founded	Sengoku Period
Castle Type	Mountaintop
Castle Condition	Ruins only
Historical Period	Pre Edo Period
Features
Visitor Information
Access	Shinano-Ômachi Station on the Ôito Line; rental e-bike
Visitor Information	24/7 free; mountain
Time Required	30 minutes
Location	Ômachi, Nagano Prefecture
Coordinates	36° 33' 29.12" N, 137° 53' 14.35" E
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Added to Jcastle	2023
Contributor	ART
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