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Aoba Castle - Stream

Aoba Castle was built in 1600 by the great daimyo, Date Masamune. Although the castle never had a main keep, it was an impressive castle grounds located 100 meters up Mount Aoba, providing an excellent strategic and defensive position. The castle once had three yagura and a honmaru palace, but fire and the bombings of WWII wiped much of it out. The structures you see today are reconstructions with the exceptions of some of the stone walls. The castle is classified as a National Historic Site.

 

Aoba Castle. Sendai, Miyagi.

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Uploaded on December 17, 2009
Taken on November 14, 2009