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.

Replica of Edo Castle tower on show at Imperial Palace in Tokyo. October 14, 2020. Human remains unearthed near Osaka station at former cemetery. August 14, 2020.

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 ...

What's done is done. But what if a historic negotiation over the surrender of Edo Castle between Saigo Takamori, who led the Imperial forces during the fall of Edo, and Katsu Kaishu, the shogunate ...

Stone walls from the Edo Castle, thought to be about 400-years-old, are seen at a construction site in the Imperial Palace in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on April 13, 2021.

It is for this reason that Odake has taken the lead as the chairman of a non-profit organization which hopes to rebuild the Edo Castle’s innermost tower. “In order to present Tokyo as a proud tourist ...

The Photograph Album of the Former Edo Castle was shot in 1871 soon after Japan entered on its new path of modernisation. The album contains 64 photographs of Edo Castle, the great symbol of power ...

Book one of the only thirty available stays at Ozu Castle on Japan’s Shikoku island and you’ll be treated like a visiting lord—complete with welcome ceremony, bathing ritual and more.

What does Tokyo have as a genuine landmark? Well, there's 52-year-old Tokyo Tower, but that's not the draw it once was. Or there's Tokyo Sky Tree, which, at 603 meters high, is set to be the world ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Although construction of Osaka Castle was begun in 1583, what you see today is mostly a 1931 concrete replica. Still, the eight ...

The Photograph Album of the Former Edo Castle was shot in 1871 soon after Japan entered on its new path of modernisation. The album contains 64 photographs of Edo Castle, the great symbol of power ...