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Nijo Castle

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Nijo-jo Castle is a castle in current Nijojo-cho, Horikawa Nishiiru, Nijo-dori Street, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto of Japan.

Structure, the history, charm of Nijo Castle

Nijo Castle is a castle (Hira Castle) which was in current Nijojo-cho, Horikawa Nishiiru, Nijo-dori Street, Nakagyo-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto of Japan.

Nijo Castle was made each during a history by Ashikaga, Oda, Toyotomi, Tokugawa, to be described below.
Various Nijo Castle　⇒

A current Castle is a Castle made as the accommodations where Ieyasu Tokugawa is staying in Kyoto.
　The matter to congratulate with Appointment to Shogun of Ieyasu Tokugawa and Restoration of the Imperial rule of Yoshinobu Tokugawa are carried out and are a beginning of Edo Shogunate and the place of the end.
　In addition, Nijo Castle was used as a prefecture of Kyoto and an imperial villa of the Imperial Family in later modern times.
　Furthermore, it is enrolled in a world heritage of the UNESCO as "Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto" in 1994.