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Hikone Castle 彦根城
Hikone Castle is a modern castle which began construction in 1604 and took about 20 years to complete. Hikone Castle used to have large castle grounds which included a triple moat, an artificial river and a castle town. The area inside the Nakabori moat was designated as a national “historic site” in 1946 for its stone wall structure that remains in good shape, and as a “special historic site” in 1951 and has been preserved carefully as a national common property.
彦根城は慶長9年(1604)に工事が始まり、約20年かけて完成した近世城郭です。かつての彦根城は、三重の堀や人工河川、城下町を含む大城郭でした。その中で、中堀より内側の範囲は、石垣で構成された城郭平面構造が極めて良好な形で残っていることから、昭和26年に国の「史跡」、同31年には「特別史跡」に指定されており、国民共有の財産として大切に守られています。
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