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.

But a recent movement, led by the Edo-jo Saiken o Mezasu Kai (Group Aiming for the Reconstruction of Edo Castle), is seeking public funding to one day construct a replica on the site.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...