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Himeji Castle

The finest surviving Japanese castle, a white timber keep on a stone base above Himeji. Eighty-three structures of gates, walls and spiralling baileys, laid out so that an attacker who got through the outer gate would still be walking in circles under fire.

Dated events and their evidence

• 1333 CE mainstream
  first fort on Himeyama hill, by Akamatsu Norimura source
• 1609 CE mainstream
  present complex completed by Ikeda Terumasa source
• 1993 CE mainstream
  inscribed as a World Heritage site source

Where

34.8394° N, 134.6939° E

Sources

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Himeji_Castle

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