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• File:Okayama10.jpg  + (A side view of the main keep. From the front it looks huge and imposing but from the side it is relatively narrow. This picture also shows the two main irimoya gables from this famous borogata style keep.)
• File:Shishiudomap2.jpg  + (A sign at Sonobe Castle museum. (1) is Shishiudo Yakata, (2) is Koide Yakata and (3) is Shishiudo Castle)
• File:Shishiku30.jpg  + (A sign that shows the other smoke signal locations through the valley.)
• File:Kawagoe2.jpg  + (A simple kabukimon gate reconstructed at the Nakanomon moat.)
• File:Nishikata38.jpg  + (A small Bailey around the South Bailey)
• File:Nishikata39.jpg  + (A small Bailey around the South Bailey)
• File:Arikoyama24.jpg  + (A small bailey)
• File:Hayashioh12.jpg  + (A small bailey behind the main bailey)
• File:Matsuoko9.jpg  + (A small bailey in front of another stone fortified entrance.)
• File:Kawamura19.jpg  + (A small bailey out beyond the North Bailey. the post designated where foundation pillars of a building were found.)
• File:Tokura4.jpg  + (A small bailey partway up the mountain?)
• File:Iwamura5.jpg  + (A small gate to the left of the main gate)
• File:Yamabe18.jpg  + (A small koshiguruwa bailey before entering the main bailey)
• File:Koshigoe11.jpg  + (A small koshiguruwa bailey.)
• File:Nishio8.jpg  + (A small remnant of a stone wall)
• File:Sendai9.jpg  + (A small section of a stone wall along the road from the Otemon Gate to the Honmaru.)
• File:Matsuoko4.jpg  + (A small shrine along the ridge on the way to the castle.)
• File:Tenpaku2.jpg  + (A small shrine along the trail to the castle. I think it is related to the shrine at the trail head.)
• File:Kasumi8.jpg  + (A small, <i>koshiguruwa</i> type bailey.)
• File:Toishi3.jpg  + (A steep slippery part of the trail to Komeyama-jo. Use the guide ropes or a trekking pole and you'll be fine.)
• File:Naka02.jpg  + (A stone arched gate through one of the baileys. It is thought that there was a wooden yagura type structure on top of this gate.)
• File:Hirosaki5.jpg  + (A stone bridge across the Ninomaru moat. This is the only stone bridge in the castle. All others are wooden.)
• File:Edo40.jpg  + (A stone foundation in the Matoba Bailey. It looks like a yagura or something once stood here. You can see this on those 2 days a year when the Imperial Palace Grounds are open to the public or during the daily tours of the palace.)
• File:Tsumagi17.jpg  + (A stone in the Honmaru Bailey. The square cut in the middle was likely for a support pillar for a building.)
• File:Azuchi27.jpg  + (A stone wall near the Sannomaru. This is photographed from just behind a fence that limits where you can go. There are many such places where you can see great looking stone walls, but you can't get there because the area hasn't been prepared yet.)

• File:Aki16.jpg  + (A street from the samurai district)

• File:Tsuwano56.jpg  + (A street in the castle town)
• File:Tsuwano55.jpg  + (A street in the castle town. This is where many high ranking retainers lived.)
• File:Izunagahama6.jpg  + (A through D baileys that extend down into the bay.)
• File:Kakunodate102.jpg  + (A typical street in a castle town often doglegs like this to confuse attackers and hide defenses)
• File:Kirihara40.jpg  + (A vertical trench that runs from the side of the main bailey down the mountain.)
• File:Ozu16.jpg  + (A very interesting model of the structure of a roof. You often see walls but it's first time I've seen such detailed model for a roof. It's surprisingly complex !!)
• File:Edo45.jpg  + (A very large Nagayamon Gate, perhaps the largest I've ever seen. It is along the moat on the way to the Inui Yagura. Again, no reliable information but maybe it was moved here from a palace in the city (as per one of the guards/staff I asked).)
• File:Hakusan37.jpg  + (A view form near the castle entrance. You can see why this was chosen as a good site for a castle.)
• File:Shiwa8.jpg  + (A view form the outside of the inner enclosure looking at the West Gate.)
• File:Nagahama3.jpg  + (A view form the top of the main keep including part of the Honmaru Bailey)
• File:Odani6.jpg  + (A view from along the trail near the guard station)
• File:Kofu14.jpg  + (A view from outside the Yamanote Gomon Yagura. You can see it was quite an impressive masugata gate.)
• File:Sendai6.jpg  + (A view from the Honmaru bailey of the castle.)
• File:Takashima3.jpg  + (A view from the back side of the Kabukimon Gate.)
• File:Yonago9.jpg  + (A view from the honmaru (central) bailey. Scroll right to see the full panorama.)
• File:Kofu13.jpg  + (A view from the inside of the Yamanoto Gomon gate. You can just see both the interior yaguramon gate (left) and the exterior facing koraimon gate (right).)
• File:Gassan3.jpg  + (A view from the middle of the moat in the previous picture.)
• File:Otaki4.jpg  + (A view from the top of the castle looking out towards the town.)
• File:Inawashiro13.jpg  + (A view of Mt. Bandai from the road back to the station. The small hill behind the blue roofed building is where the castle is.)
• File:Hirosaki16.jpg  + (A view of Mt. Iwaki and the western moat from the honmaru.)
• File:Shiwa15.jpg  + (A view of another of one of these yagura. You can also clearly see the different sections of the wall. More on that later.)
• File:Izunagahama4.jpg  + (A view of the Atake ships outline form above.)
• File:Nagoya15.jpg  + (A view of the Fumeimon from inside)
• File:Wakamatsu20.jpg  + (A view of the Hashirinagaya Tamon Yagura, Kurogane Gate and Hoshii Yagura. All are reconstructions but well done.)
• File:Ichiyajo6.jpg  + (A view of the Honmaru Bailey as seen from the main keep foundation. The sign post says "main keep foundation.")