5 Castles from Ayabe City in Kyoto

This is a bit of a disjointed update. It includes 5 castles from the remote city of Ayabe in the greater Kyoto Prefecture. This area bookended my 2023/2024 castle season. Starting with Yamaga Castle, this was my "recovery" castle trip after being prevented from castl'ing right at the start of the

5 Castles from Ayabe City in Kyoto

2024/07/07

This is a bit of a disjointed update. It includes 5 castles from the remote city of Ayabe in the greater Kyoto Prefecture. This area bookended my 2023/2024 castle season.

Starting with Yamaga Castle, this was my "recovery" castle trip after being prevented from castl'ing right at the start of the season with COVID striking my wife and I in succession. I had planned to hit all the castles in this update in one day along the same bus route, but after climbing the mountain at Yamaga for Kogamine Castle I was too exhausted to go on. I guess I wasn't fully recovered yet. It would be nearly the end of the mountain castle season before I made it back to pick up where I left off with Kanbayashi Castle and Hekitani Castle. Along the way, I also discovered Fujikake Jin'ya which was unexpected.

Don't worry, even though this mostly covers the beginning and end of my castle season there were still a lot more mountain castles in between.