Azuchi Castle
is really Azuchi Castle ruins, Omihachiman, Shiga
Real place, reimagined
Real-world photo: Wikimedia Commons
How close does the game get to the real place?
In the game
Oda Nobunaga's brand-new castle on a hill above Lake Biwa, its gilded keep towering over the town below.
The real place
Nobunaga built Azuchi between 1576 and 1579, so the game catches it just finished. It burned in 1582, days after Nobunaga died at Honnō-ji, and was never rebuilt. Only the stone walls and the great stone stairway survive in the forest.
Visiting
The climb from the car park up the stone stairway to the keep site takes about 30 minutes. The Azuchi Castle Museum and the Nobunaga no Yakata nearby show a full-size reconstruction of the top floors.
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