Hikone Station (Tokaido Honsen), walk 15 minutes
With the reconstructed lord's palace (castle museum), Hikone Castle is one of the most complete castles in Japan for you to visit and get a feeling for an Edo Period castle. Take your time to go into the gates and yagura that are open and take some time to walk around the outside of the moats. You'll get fantastic views of the castle and all the great stone walls to better understand the scale of the castle too. One of the most impressive features of Hikone Castle is the [http://jcastle.info/view/Hikone_Castle_-_Climbing_Stone_Walls climbing stone walls (Nobori Ishigaki)]. Refer to the album below for more information. Outside the castle grounds, the Hikone Castle Town is full of remnants of the deep history of Hikone. Please be sure to also review the more in-depth article on Hikone Castle Town for more insights than what the albums below may show. Nearby Sawayama Castle also offers great views of Hikone Castle. You can use the online mapping functions on this panorama photo taken from Sawayama Castle to zoom in and out for more detail. =====Videos===== ￼START_WIDGET"'-771febcbfa08a28bEND_WIDGET ￼START_WIDGET"'-bfe5a8e262e0b0cfEND_WIDGET ￼START_WIDGET"'-ca925428bad970fcEND_WIDGET
Open 8:30-17:00; 800 yen (1200 yen including museum and garden)
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