Gifu castle 岐阜城 gifu-jou

castle with rebuilt tenshukaku (main tower)

built 1201 | destroyed 1600

japanische Burg / Japanese castle

Gifu City

Gifu-jô – Japanese Castle | Hartmut Pohling

Gifu-jô castle on Mount Kinka in Gifu City, also known as Inabayama-jô, was built at the beginning of the 13th century, conquered and rebuilt by ODA Nobunaga in 1564 and completely destroyed by an earthquake in 1891. It was not rebuilt until the 1950s.