Edo Castle, bearing the former name of Tokyo, has one of the longest lineages of all Japan’s castles. A fortified palace was first erected on the site during the Heian period (794-1185).

Located inside the walls of Edo Castle, it contained the living quarters of women serving Tokugawa rulers and played a vital role in ensuring stability during the Edo period (1603–1868) through ...

The tower doesn't quite scrape the skyline like the 59-meter-high main keep of Edo Castle once did, but the miniature version of it now at Tokyo's Imperial Palace is still nothing to sneeze at.

An entrance to Edo Castle during the 250-odd years that Edo (present-day Tokyo) ... Yuta Shimizu, 12, waves at me from inside a giant soap bubble, while his friend Lisa Mori, 11, ...

Sending one of their number to Ako Castle to deliver the news of the revenge, the remaining 46, carrying Kira’s head, marched 10 kilometers through Edo to Sengakuji, to lay in front of Asano’s grave ...

The site of Edo Castle at that time is now the Imperial Palace. However, the moat that surrounded the castle has been passed down to the present day, ...

Ieyasu’s Birthplace. Tokugawa Ieyasu, the future founder of the Edo shogunate, was born in 1543 in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province (now Aichi Prefecture).The Saigō clan is thought to have ...

Located in Hiroshima Prefecture’s Fukuyama City, Fukuyama Castle has a long history stretching back nearly 400 years. For a stellar reconstruction of an Edo-period castle as well as great views of the ...