Residential palace in the inner citadel of Kawagoe Castle

Kawagoe Castle was constructed in 1457 by Ota Doshin and his son Dokan under the orders of Ogigayatsu Uesugi Mochitomo, as a strategic base in his power struggle with his rival Koga-kubo Ashikaga Shigeuji. In the Edo period that followed, the castle was allocated to a feudal lord important to the shogunate, but following the Meiji Restoration which ended the feudal period, most of the castle buildings were broken up over time and the site used for schools, public facilities, and housing. Today, the entry to the residential palace in the inner citadel, which was constructed in 1848, and the reconstructed working room of the chief retainers recall the feudal period for visitors.

Access

• By car: 8 minutes
• On foot: 22 minutes
• By bus: From the bus stop near the Hotel