I was spending the day alone in Hiroshima while my finacee attended a conference in the city. The castle is an easy walk from the Peace Park area and it was a beautiful day. For only 280 yen (discount coupons abound) I spent a lovely 3 hours on the grounds strolling through the gate area, the temple, and the reconstructed tower. Following the ...
Perhaps it is because of the other great castles I have been to recently in Japan (namely Himeji and Matsumoto), but I was very disapointed in this castle. It is a reconstructed castle (the original being destroyed in the 1945 atomic bombing). Overall it is fairly average sized and unremarkable.
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