Hikone Castle, Located in Hikone city in the northern part of Shiga prefecture in Japan. This castle was built during early 1600’s century and was declared as national treasure of Japan. This castle is also one of the only 4 original castle in Japan.
This castle is very much smaller in size and in term of height of the castle compare to Himeji castle or Osaka castle or Nagoya castle.
Four side of the wall on the castle are opening for the gun, the opening is bigger on the inside and tapper toward the outside.
Inside the castle, you can see the roof of the castle is constructed from log with all sort of shape but every pieces seem just fit together nicely, the skill to put together the all the odd shape pieces without using any nail is amazing
On the top floor is a spacious area.
Along the corridor inside the castle, from the windows you can view what happen outside the castle, a good view of lake Biwa.
The staircase to go up to upper floor is very steep, do pay attention especialy ladies when visiting this castle.
This "fish shape" structure is located at the corner of the roof on the castle, different castle have different name given to this structure but they all look like fish.
When you want to visit Hikone castle, you need the buy a ticket before you can access to the castle compound, do remember that the track to go up to the castle and down the castle is different, do take your pictures on the way up as you will go down on the other side of the castle.
You can visit Hikone castle by taking JR west train, biwako line and get off at Hikone station, it take 20 minutes if you walk to the castle.
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