One is the Osaka Castle, located in the city with the same name as the third most populated city in Japan and resting on a bay. The site has been the capital at some point in Japanese history and is actually very near Tokyo. However, as is so beautiful and has so much to see should stay on it directly.
With regard to the castle, its origins date back to the sixteenth century when the shogun Oda Nobunaga (the first of the three unifiers of the country) gave place to a Buddhist sect which was quartered in a temple. When he managed to get them out of there, destroyed the place and then the second unifier of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi built his castle there in 1585, giving almost foundation city of Osaka.
The construction of the original castle took two years and employs between 20,000 and 30,000 people daily. All the stone walls of the enclosures add about 12 km long and some rocks grow to almost 6 feet tall and 14 meters wide. While the original construction and subsequent to its final remodeling are not preserved, some walls remain standing itself and allow the tourist to imagine vividly the place.
The truth is that the castle was burned several times. The third hero of the story it ablaze Ieyasu Tokugawa Japan to end the Toyotomi dynasty, then in 1665 the building was struck by lightning and went on fire and only in 1931 the city government was in charge of rebuilding, this time using reinforced concrete. In 1997 returned to make some improvements and to find him today as in the picture: huge and majestic.
The entrance is public and costs about $ 7. You enter the complex to reach the castle you can climb to the tower where there are excellent views and a souvenir shop. It’s a nice walk and something we can not help seeing in the city.
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