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A castle passed through the hands of the greatest daimyo of the Tohoku region—and the last stronghold of a tragic youth corps in 1868

The ancestral temple of the Ashina clan, who were destroyed by Date Masamune in 1589—preserving the memory of a fallen Sengoku daimyo lineage

The Jishu-shu temple that secretly buried 1,281 Aizu warriors defying the new government's prohibition—also the resting place of Shinsengumi captain Saito Hajime

A 115-meter keyhole burial mound from the mid-4th century—triangular-rimmed bronze mirrors excavated here confirm ties to the Yamato court

A 38-room, 2,450-tsubo samurai estate restored to honor the chief retainer of Aizu—site where his wife and 20 family members perished in the Boshin War

A temple founded in 1250 under the Ashina clan—where Date Masamune set up his field headquarters after the 1589 Battle of Suriagehara

Founded in 1803 with 1,000 students on an 8,000-tsubo campus—the domain school where the Byakkotai boys were steeped in the spirit of Aizu Bushido

The hereditary mausoleum of the Aizu Matsudaira clan from 1657—where the last lord Katamori, who served as Protector of Kyoto, rests as a National Historic Site

A hexagonal three-story Buddhist hall built in 179…

The tragic site where 19 young samurai of the Byak…