Friday 5 July 2019

Heard of the “Castle in the Sky” in Japan?

At Ono City in Fukui Prefecture, the Echizen Ono Castle, built in 1580, appears to be floating in the sky when clouds are hanging low and especially during foggy mornings.

Visitors and photographers gather at spots on surrounding mountains for this enchanting view. One good spot you can consider is Inuyama. The best chance to catch it is between dawn and 9am in November.

Do note that the castle is only open from April to November, and the nearest station is the Echizen Ono Station.

What is Echizen Ono Castle?
Echizen Ono Castle is categorized as “Hirayamajiro” castle. This castle was built at Kameyama with an elevation of about 249m (817ft), in the Ono basin located northwest of Ono City. Nobunaga Oda gave two thirds of the land of Ono-gun to Nagachika Kanamori. Kanamori built this castle around 1575, one year before Azuchi Castle (built by Nobunaga Oda) was completed. It took five years to complete this project. The stone wall as the base of this castle was built by the “Nozurazumi” method, which is the  piling of natural stones upon each other one by one.

The current castle tower was built in 1968 in reference to pictures, drawings, and other contemporary castles. A large number of articles left behind by the successive lords were displayed within the castle.

https://www.onocastle.net/en/about/

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