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|Main Keep Structure=3 levels, 4 stories
|Main Keep Structure=3 levels, 4 stories
|Year Reconstructed=1982 (concrete)
|Year Reconstructed=1982 (concrete)
|Features=main keep, stone walls, walls
|Features=main keep, gates, turrets, samurai homes, stone walls, walls
|Access=Kaminoyama Onsen Station (Oou Honsen), 15 minute walk
|Access=Kaminoyama Onsen Station (Oou Honsen), 15 minute walk
|Website=http://www.city.kaminoyama.yamagata.jp/kanko/kankou/kami-filed4.html
|Visitor Information=open 9am-4:45pm; closed 12/29-12/31; check the website for other closed days. 410 yen admission
|Time Required=30 mins; 60 mins with samurai homes
|Website=http://kaminoyama-castle.info
|City=Kaminoyama
|City=Kaminoyama
|Prefecture=Yamagata Prefecture
|Prefecture=Yamagata Prefecture
|Notes=I stopped by this castle on a long day trip around the Southern Tohoku area. The station is actually called Kaminoyama Onsen. I wish I had time to go to an onsen there, but it was getting dark and was going to take a couple of hours to get home.
|Notes=The mock main keep is nothing like the main keep that would have stood here and it's even in the wrong place. The main reason to visit this castle is to see the 4 samurai homes behind it. The museum is a nice local history museum and the top offers nice views of the valley but it is light on castle information. You could skip it if you don't have time.
|History=Kaminoyama-jo marked the southern extent of the Mogami clan territory. It was the focal point in the power struggles between Lord Mogami and Date Masamune in that area. In 1692, the Toki clan, the current occupants, were reassigned and the castle was torn down.
 
|Year Visited=1997
Kaminoyama is also conveniently located between Yamagata and Yonezawa and has some hot springs. I used this as my base for 2 days of castle exploring between Yamagata and Yonezawa. The ruins of the mountaintop castle, Takadate Castle, can also be found on the mountain behind Kaminoyama Castle but I did not have time to visit on this trip.
|History=Kaminoyama Castle is built on a critical highway between Yonezawa and Yamagata. It was a focal point of the skirmishes between the Date in Yonezawa and Mogami of Yamagata.  In the Edo Period the Toki clan was stationed here and the castle was well developed. In 1692 when the Toki clan we reassigned the castle was considered to be too extravagant for such a small fiefdom so the castle was dismantled. After the Toki, the Kanamori and then a Matsudaira clan becomes lords of Kaminoyama but the castle was never rebuilt despite many petitions to the bakufu.
|Year Visited=1997, 2017
|AddedJcastle=1999
|AddedJcastle=1999
|Visits=October 1997
|Japanese Notes=天守は模擬天守です。遺構は少ないけれど、武家屋敷は見る価値があると思いますので、見逃さないでください。また、裏山には高館城という山城跡もあるので時間があれば面白いと思います。今回の城廻りの最後の日は雨だったので諦めました。
|Visits=October 1997; November 2, 2017
|GPSLocation=38.15786, 140.27592
|GPSLocation=38.15786, 140.27592
|Contributor=Eric
|rating_average=2.41
|rating_average=2.41
|castleElev=197
|castleElev=197

Latest revision as of 21:44, 15 August 2023

The mock main keep is nothing like the main keep that would have stood here and it's even in the wrong place. The main reason to visit this castle is to see the 4 samurai homes behind it. The museum is a nice local history museum and the top offers nice views of the valley but it is light on castle

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History

Kaminoyama Castle is built on a critical highway between Yonezawa and Yamagata. It was a focal point of the skirmishes between the Date in Yonezawa and Mogami of Yamagata. In the Edo Period the Toki clan was stationed here and the castle was well developed. In 1692 when the Toki clan we reassigned the castle was considered to be too extravagant for such a small fiefdom so the castle was dismantled. After the Toki, the Kanamori and then a Matsudaira clan becomes lords of Kaminoyama but the castle was never rebuilt despite many petitions to the bakufu.


Field Notes

The mock main keep is nothing like the main keep that would have stood here and it's even in the wrong place. The main reason to visit this castle is to see the 4 samurai homes behind it. The museum is a nice local history museum and the top offers nice views of the valley but it is light on castle information. You could skip it if you don't have time.

Kaminoyama is also conveniently located between Yamagata and Yonezawa and has some hot springs. I used this as my base for 2 days of castle exploring between Yamagata and Yonezawa. The ruins of the mountaintop castle, Takadate Castle, can also be found on the mountain behind Kaminoyama Castle but I did not have time to visit on this trip.


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Gallery
  • Main Keep
  • Main keep and yaguramon gate
  • Main keep and yaguramon gate
  • Main Keep
  • Ruins of a Yaguramon style gate
  • unknown stonework
  • Main Keep
  • Main keep
  • View from the top
  • View from the top
  • Honmaru and Ninomaru
  • Honmaru and Ninomaru
  • Site of the Ninomaru moat
  • Main keep
  • Sunset
  • Sunset
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Miwa Residence
  • Sokabe Residence. Open to the public.
  • Morimoto Residence
  • Yamada Residence


Castle Profile
English Name Kaminoyama Castle
Japanese Name 上山城
Alternate Names Tsukioka-jo
Founder Takenaga Yoshitada
Year Founded 1535
Castle Type Hilltop
Castle Condition Reconstructed main keep
Historical Period Edo Period
Main Keep Structure 3 levels, 4 stories
Year Reconstructed 1982 (concrete)
Features main keep, gates, turrets, samurai homes, stone walls, walls
Visitor Information
Access Kaminoyama Onsen Station (Oou Honsen), 15 minute walk
Hours open 9am-4:45pm; closed 12/29-12/31; check the website for other closed days. 410 yen admission
Time Required 30 mins; 60 mins with samurai homes
URL Castle Website
Location Kaminoyama, Yamagata Prefecture
Coordinates 38.15786, 140.27592
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Admin
Added to Jcastle 1999
Contributor Eric
Admin Year Visited 1997, 2017
Admin Visits October 1997; November 2, 2017
Nearby Samurai Homes

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Miwa Residence

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Morimoto Residence

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Sokabe Residence

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Yamada Residence
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