[Takeda Castle Ruins] Early morning only! Get a postcard with Toyotomi Hidenaga's castle seal design!

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Anyone who visits the Takeda Castle ruins from June 1st, the first day of early morning opening, through August 31st will receive a postcard featuring Toyotomi Hidenaga's castle seal.

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The Takeda Castle ruins will be open to the public from 5am starting in June.

The Takeda Castle ruins are open to the public from 5am to 5pm from June 1st to December 7th (last entry at 4:30pm).

Unlike previous years, this year the gates will open at 5am starting in June.

In conjunction with this, for two hours only from June 1st, the first day of early morning opening, to August 31st, anyone who visits the Takeda Castle ruins will be given a postcard featuring Toyotomi Hidenaga's castle seal.

Please come and commemorate the occasion.

Date and Time

From June 1 to August 31, 2025

Only for two hours from 5am to 7am

place

Takeda Castle Remains Collection Building

*Limited to the first 2000 people, while stocks last.

Toyotomi Hidenaga and the ruins of Takeda Castle

Takeda Castle is said to have begun during the Kakitsu era (around 1443) when Yamana Sozen, then governor of Tajima, ordered his subordinate Otagaki clan to build it (according to oral tradition). After that, the Otagaki clan, a senior vassal of the Yamana clan, served as the castle's lord for seven generations, starting with the first lord, Kageyoshi (some say his real name was Masaaki). However, in 1580, Takeda Takeda fell during Hashiba Hideyoshi's (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi) attack on Tajima, and it is believed that the Otagaki clan also fell.

Later, Hidenaga Hashiba (later known as Toyotomi Hidenaga), the younger brother of Hideyoshi Hashiba, became the eighth lord of the ruins of Takeda Castle.

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Takeda Castle Ruins (Takeda Castle)

669-5252 169 Takeda Kojoyama, Wadayama-cho, Asago-shi, Hyogo Prefectur...

A "castle in the sky" that seems to float on the clouds Takeda Castle Ruins is a mountain castle ruin that has been selected as one of the 100 most famous castles in Japan. When it is enveloped in a sea of clouds on a clear, sunny early morning in late autumn, it truly resembles a castle floating in the sky. The sea of clouds can occur on mornings with good conditions, mainly from September to November, from dawn until around 8:00 a.m.

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