Kumamoto Castle

Kumamoto Castle is Kumamoto’s most famous landmark. Kumamoto Castle is a reconstruction. Kumamoto Castle is Kumamoto’s most famous landmark. Kumamoto Castle is a large, and in its day, an extremely well fortified Japanese castle. The donjon (castle central keep) is a concrete reconstruction built in the 1970s, but several ancillary wooden buildings remain of the original castle. Kumamoto Castle was besieged during the Satsuma Rebellion, and was sacked and burned after a 53-day siege. Within the outer walls of Kumamoto Castle is the Hosokawa Gyobu-tei, the former residence of the Higo daimyo. This traditional wooden mansion has a fine Japanese garden located in its grounds. Picture: Kumamoto Castle taken by Fg2 (Article based on Wikipedia article and used under the GNU Free Documentation License) |