A 400-year-old stone wall once part of Edo Castle, discovered only last year at what is now the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, is likely the castle’s oldest existing remnant ever unearthed ...

MATSUE -- One of the earliest known pictorial maps of Edo Castle, which was expanded by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu, has been found here according to an announcement by the Matsue Municipal Government ...

The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at ...

Edo Castle's Sotosakurada moat is captured in this photo taken by Yokoyama Matsusaburo in 1871. | COURTESY OF EDO-TOKYO MUSEUM The statue of Saigo Takamori at Ueno Park in April.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in 1543 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture). The Saigō clan is thought to have built initial ...

Of course, 'Edo Castle' also exists on the brick. The site of Edo Castle at that time is now the Imperial Palace. However, the moat that surrounded the castle has been passed down to the present ...

Edo Castle Visitors of all ages will be able to participate in activities like work experience simulations Once visitors arrive at the entrance, they can enter six different areas and experience ...