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For a jin'ya site, there was more here to see than I expected. The site is nestled in a little corner of a small plateau partway up the mountainside with fantastic views of the valley below. The main area of the jin'ya has some slight earthen embankments remaining and in the back you can find the he

History

I think it was the Wachi clan who had some territory and a the mountaintop castle here. They actually sided with Nobunaga but he told them to destroy the castle. They insisted it wasn’t a castle but a family gravesite. … with koguchi and horikiri :) Nobunaga got pissed off and sent his key Tanba assassin Akechi Mitsuhide in to destroy them, which he did of course. Thereafter the jin’ya was setup and the same family ruled all the way to the end of the Edo Period. Pretty rare, I might say. Supposedly they also maintained the yamajiro as a tsume-no-shiro even if they technically were not supposed to throughout.

Field Notes

For a jin'ya site, there was more here to see than I expected. The site is nestled in a little corner of a small plateau partway up the mountainside with fantastic views of the valley below. The main area of the jin'ya has some slight earthen embankments remaining and in the back you can find the heavily weeded over ruins of some stone retaining walls. If you take one of the small unmarked side trails on the southwest side of the main bailey area it will take you partway down the hillside around the back of the Jin'ya where you can find a couple big dry moats and some very nice stone walls. I was looking for these walls from above and nearly gave up. At one point I was standing literally right above them on top but it was so weedy I could not see over the edge to find where the stone walls might be. I started doubting myself that maybe I had confused the pictures of stone walls I had seen with another site!

There is a nice map of the jin'ya and Kogamine Castle on the Kyoto Board of Education website: https://www.kyoto-be.ne.jp/bunkazai/cms/?p=2206

The gate is reconstructed. It does not accurately represent a gate of the time but is nice for photos. The interior houses a little collection of artifacts and materials but it's only open by reservation. This site is not hard to get too but you might burn a lot of time waiting for transportation. There are infrequent busses from Ayabe Sta. that stop relatively close to the site from which it is only about a 10 min walk. The train line between Yamaga and Ayabe does not run frequently so if you can time it to catch a bus from Ayabe it is the best route. On the way back the wait for a return bus was even longer so I walked to Yamaga Station and waited about 30 mins there for the train back to Kyoto.

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mountain castle in the background

Castle Profile
English Name	Yamaga Jin'ya
Japanese Name	山家陣屋
Alternate Names	Yamaga-jo
Founder
Year Founded
Castle Type	Hilltop
Castle Condition	No main keep but other buildings
Historical Period	Edo Period
Features	gates
Visitor Information
Access	Yamaga Sta. 25 min walk, or bus from Ayabe Sta
Hours	museum open by appointment only
Time Required	45 mins
URL	Castle Website
Location	Ayabe, Kyoto
Coordinates	35.3007, 135.31803
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Added to Jcastle	2024
Contributor	Eric
Admin Year Visited	2023
Admin Visits	October 22, 2023
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-|Notes=For a jin'ya site, there was more here to see than I expected. The site is nestled in a little corner of small plateau partway up the mountainside with fantastic views of the valley below. The main area of the jin'ya has some slight earthen embankments remaining and in the back you can find the heavily weeded over ruins of some stone retaining walls. If you take one of the small unmarked side trails on the southeast side of the main Bailey area it will take you partway down the hillside around the back of the Jin'ya where you can find a couple big dry moats and some very nice stone walls.  I was looking for these walls from above and nearly gave up. At one point I was standing literally right above them on top but it was so weedy I could see over the edge to find where the stone walls might be. I had started doubting myself that maybe I had confused the pictures of stone walls I had seen with another site !
+|Notes=For a jin'ya site, there was more here to see than I expected. The site is nestled in a little corner of a small plateau partway up the mountainside with fantastic views of the valley below. The main area of the jin'ya has some slight earthen embankments remaining and in the back you can find the heavily weeded over ruins of some stone retaining walls. If you take one of the small unmarked side trails on the southwest side of the main bailey area it will take you partway down the hillside around the back of the Jin'ya where you can find a couple big dry moats and some very nice stone walls.  I was looking for these walls from above and nearly gave up. At one point I was standing literally right above them on top but it was so weedy I could not see over the edge to find where the stone walls might be. I started doubting myself that maybe I had confused the pictures of stone walls I had seen with another site!
 There is a nice map of the jin'ya  and [[Kogamine Castle (Kyoto)|Kogamine Castle]] on the Kyoto Board of Education website:  https://www.kyoto-be.ne.jp/bunkazai/cms/?p=2206
-The gate is reconstructed. It does not accurately represent a gate of the time but is nice for photos. The interior houses a little collection of artifacts and materials but it's only open by reservation. This site is not hard to get too but you might burn a lot of time waiting for transportation. There are infrequent busses from Ayabe Sta. that stop relatively close to the site from which it is only about a 10 min walk. The train line between Yamaga and Ayabe does not run frequently so if you can catch a bus from Ayabe it is the best route. On the way back the wait for a return bus was even longer so I walked to Yamaga Station and waited about 30 mins there for the train back to Kyoto.
+The gate is reconstructed. It does not accurately represent a gate of the time but is nice for photos. The interior houses a little collection of artifacts and materials but it's only open by reservation. This site is not hard to get too but you might burn a lot of time waiting for transportation. There are infrequent busses from Ayabe Sta. that stop relatively close to the site from which it is only about a 10 min walk. The train line between Yamaga and Ayabe does not run frequently so if you can time it to catch a bus from Ayabe it is the best route. On the way back the wait for a return bus was even longer so I walked to Yamaga Station and waited about 30 mins there for the train back to Kyoto.
 |History=I think it was the Wachi clan who had some territory and a the mountaintop castle here. They actually sided with Nobunaga but he told them to destroy the castle. They insisted it wasn’t a castle but a family gravesite. … with koguchi and horikiri :) Nobunaga got pissed off and sent his key Tanba assassin Akechi Mitsuhide in to destroy them, which he did of course. Thereafter the jin’ya was setup and the same family ruled all the way to the end of the Edo Period. Pretty rare, I might say.  Supposedly they also maintained the yamajiro as a tsume-no-shiro even if they technically were not supposed to throughout.
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