See also:

• Regional: Asia: Japan: Arts and Entertainment: Traditional: Architecture  (13)
• Regional: Asia: Japan: Society and Culture: History: Feudal Period  (13)

Castles of Japan - - Dale Kenny lists over 300 castles, and provides a photograph for many of those which survive.

Castles of Japan - - Aryn Lickey provides a computer aided montage of how Yonago Castle might have appeared, with a map of its location.

Castles of Japan - - Takashi Toyooka offers a location map, brief description, thumbnail photographs and any relevant links for each castle. Select via an interactive map or an index. Bibliography.

The Castles of Japan - - ThinkQuest provides an illustrated guide to surviving castles, together with the historic context and design features. Includes a bibliography and simulations of castle-storming.

Gifu Castle - - Size of a building, former inhabitant, photo,access information.

Goryokaku - - Constructed reason,record of war,size of building.

Guide to Japanese Castles - - Eric Obershaw provides a general history and description of castles in Japan, and photographs of castles he has visited, with histories taken from the official brochures and display text.

Inuyama Castle - - History, scale, video clip and successive owner.

Japanese Castle - - History, movie, and links.

Japanese Castles - - List of castle ruins and history.

Japanese Castles - - A few photographs by Jamie Marconi of the more famous castles in Japan.

Japanese castles - - Structures, castle town, history, guard tower and wall and moat.

Matsumoto Castle - - History, design and photograph of castle tower and decoration.

Nijo Castle - - Kyoto castle built by the first Tokugawa shogun.

Oshiro Meguri Fan - - Gallery in Japan castle and city's setting.

Shiro: A Japanese Castle - - Stephen Wyley discusses the development and aspects of Japanese castles. Drawings by Steven Lowe.

Shurijo Castle - - History, draw up a city plan, video and people of castle.

Virtual Tour Himeji Castle - - History, map, tour and gallery of photographs of this magnificent timber castle on a stone base, built in 1601 by Terumasa Ikeda - a World Heritage site. By Hakurotowa No Kai.

Wikipedia: Azuchi Castle - - An illustrated history and description of this fortress built 1576-1579 by Oda Nobunaga on the shores of Lake Biwa.

Wikipedia: Edo Castle - - An illustrated history and description of this castle built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan in what is now the Chiyoda ward of Tokyo.

Wikipedia: Osaka Castle - - An illustrated history and description of this important castle, built from 1583 by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.