Castles & Fortresses of Japan

About this book

200 real Japanese castle sites — keeps, reconstructions and honest ruins — each told the same four ways: History (who built it, what happened there), What to See (the walls, moats and views that matter), What Survives Today (original keep, reconstruction, or ruins only — stated plainly, never dressed up), and Visiting (where it is, how the visit works).

The English shelf offers a 370-castle encyclopedia you cannot carry, photo books of a few dozen famous castles, or an official English guide covering just 24 of Japan's 200 celebrated castle sites. This book is the missing field guide: all 200 sites in one uniform format at $9.99, including the twelve original keeps, the great reconstructions, mountain castles, sea castles, Ainu chashi and Okinawan gusuku — with a list of the twelve original keeps up front, plus prefecture and survival-state indexes at the back.

Written and created in Japan by Japanese author Aki Wakamatsu. Published by Takikawa TOKOTOKO Kids LLC, a Japanese publisher in Hokkaido, Japan. Authentic Japanese content, carefully made in Japan — not mass-produced.