Fukuchiyama Castle Park — Attraction in Fukuchiyama

The castle of Fukuchiyama was once called Yokoyama Castle. It was then serving itself as a fortress of a mighty clan rules the region. It was Akechi Mitsuhide who reconstructed this fort into a castle and named it Fukuchiyama Castle after he subjugated Country of Tamba. The castle was built with great architectual structure with four-storied tower as well as palace attached to it back then. The tower-like structure was built in this location since the location is on the ground of protruding part of the land in the central part of Fukuchiyama Basin, it was in a perfection point to look out the area. Yura River which runs next to the castle functioned itself as a moat around the castle. Along with abolition of feudal system this amazing structure of the castle was taken down in 1871. The current structure was constructed in 1986 and serves itself as a folk museum of the city. One of the remaining feature of this castle is a well which goes as deep as 50 meters and 7 meters below sea level. The well still provides water supply. This is a symbol of Fukucjiyama city with lightup provided at night. The area around the castle is now called Fukuchiyama Castle Park. ( Trans-word+ : TGM...

Before Fukuchiyama Castle, there was Yokoyama Castle, a fortress of the Yokoyama, the local ruling family. Akechi Mitsuhide, the samurai who subjugated Tamba, rebuilt the fortress using state-of-the-art castle-building techniques of the time, and renamed it Fukuchiyama Castle. There used to be many structures here, including a three-layered four-storied castle tower and expansive Ninomaru Palace. However, these were taken down one after another, following the abolition of feudal domains in 1871. All that remained was a stone wall between the raised foundation and castle keep, a well called Toyoiwa-no-I, and a guard station. The castle currently standing was reconstructed over a period of three years, and construction was completed 1986. The interior is used as the Fukuchiyama City Folk Museum. The castle park also contains the Fukuchiyama Sato Taisei Memorial Art Museum. Exhibits there are centered on works by the late Sato Taisei, a master of...

This place was very interesting. Obviously, there is plenty of history behind this castle, but it's difficult to explain that history as there is nothing to help non-Japanese people at the castle. Would still recommend it though because there is displays of old samurai Armour, weapons etc etc. It's a steep walk to the castle entrance but you can get a walking stick down the bottom...