Sunpu Castle in Shizuoka

I only spent 2 days in Shizuoka Prefecture, but I managed to see a lot. The previous day I (...)

Tanaka Castle in Fujieda (Shizuoka)

After I had already visited Kakegawa Castle and Hamamatsu Castle earlier that day, I was off to see my (...)

Kakegawa Castle in Shizuoka Prefecture

I spent the morning in Hamamatsu City to visit the castle, the Hamamatsu Festival Pavilion and also the nearby (...)

Hamamatsu Castle Park (Shizuoka Prefecture)

After visiting Odawara Castle in Kanagawa Prefecture during a typhoon, my next destination was Hamamatsu Castle in Shizuoka Prefecture. (...)

Odawara Castle

During my trip through Kanagawa Prefecture I did not only visit Kawasaki Daishi Temple, the rather interesting Kanamara Matsuri (...)

Chiba Castle (Inohana Castle)

After visiting Kawasaki and the Kanamara Phallus Festival in Kanagawa Prefecture the previous day, I decided to go into (...)

Morioka Castle Site Park

After the typhoon hit almost all of Japan the weather never got better and more than half of my (...)

Goryokaku Fort in Hakodate

I arrived in Hakodate on the night of the 5th. The next day was rainy, so I decided to (...)

Matsumae Castle in Hokkaido

After leaving Aomori Prefecture I entered Hokkaido and thus left the Tohoku Region for a few days. Hokkaido is (...)