A celebrated castle on the Tokaido highway, originally built by the Imagawa clan in the Bunmei era (from 1469) and greatly renovated by Yamauchi Kazutoyo in 1590. The keep, reconstructed in wood in 1994, gained nationwide attention as Japan\'s first full-scale wooden reconstruction of a castle tower. Much of the castle town atmosphere remains, with additional highlights including the Ninomaru teah…

The origins of Kakegawa Castle are traced to the Bunmei era (1469–1487), when Asahina Yasuhiro, a retainer of the Imagawa clan, is said to have constructed a fortification here to control a strategic point along the Tokaido highway. During the Sengoku period, the castle became a contested site in co…