Nijō Castle
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castle in Kyoto, Japan
Key facts
- Type
- Plains castle ( 平城 )
- Owner
- Kyoto
- Open to the public
- yes
- Built
- 1624 ; 402 years ago ( 1624 )
- Built by
- Tokugawa shogunate
- In use
- 1626–1939
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Nijō Castle (二条城, Nijō-jō) is a flatland castle in Kyoto, Japan. The castle consists of two concentric rings (Kuruwa) of fortifications, the Ninomaru Palace, the ruins of the Honmaru Palace, various support buildings and several gardens. The surface area of the castle is 275,000 square metres (27.5 ha; 68 acres), of which 8,000 square metres (86,000 sq ft) is occupied by buildings.
It is one of the seventeen Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto which have been designated by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Nijō Castle” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.