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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 ...
It is common knowledge that the tower keep at Edo Castle was rebuilt by the second ... domain" (ruled by feudal lords related to the three main branches of the Tokugawa family), it was probably ...
Standing above a new plant-filled public plaza in Tokyo, the tower ... s main railway hub. The site was once home to Tokiwabashi Gate, one of the entrances to the 15th-century Edo Castle, of ...
After its main tower was demolished in the Meiji ... fortress was described as “thriving due to the castle” in a folk song during the Edo Period. Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura called in ...