Hello, I hope the new year has been good to you all. This'll be just a quick post to let you know what's happening. To be honest, news of my....
10 Jan 11:54 am  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Regular visitors would probably know that every six months or so the Japanese Castle Explorer site (not this blog but the real site) gets a ....
25 Dec 2:41 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Image: Japan Times I came across this interesting story (dated: 20 Nov) on the Japan Time website. It's about a nonprofit organization....
9 Dec 8:34 am  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

CGI Mt. Fuji. Image: Yomiuri Online Within the grounds of Edo castle in Tokyo there exists an old watchtower named the Fujimi Turret (富士....
30 Nov 6:52 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Image credit: Yomiuri Online For a good cause Seems like castles all over Japan have been trying to out light up each other of late. And all....
16 Nov 8:44 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Overlays for Google maps have been around for a long, long time. There have been Wikipedia overlays on the JCE map for quite a while but it ....
2 Nov 10:08 am  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

It was 9 a.m. on the 9th of October that the first steps were taken toward the restortation of Himeji castle's main tower. The five-and-....
17 Oct 6:25 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Below in an article taken from the Mainichi Daily News. The story has since been removed from the Mainichi site so I thought I would reprodu....
15 Oct 4:38 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The first couple to be married at Nijo castle. It was post-wedding at the first wedding I had ever gone to. Members of the wedding party w....
13 Oct 4:50 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

Folding screen depicting Hideyoshi's Osaka Castle A friendship agreement now exists between Graz Palace in Austria & Osaka Castle. ....
12 Oct 9:55 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

As we were planning to take the kids to the African Safari park in Oita, I though it'd be a shame to not drop by Hiji Castle (a.k.a Yokoku c....
12 May 1:33 am  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

The first castle on my trip to the Kansai region was Zeze castle. After arriving in Kyoto I took the JR train to Zeze then a (tram-like) loc....
7 May 11:39 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

I had a great time in the Kansai area this week, I was there just two days but the itinerary was planned out & very full. In this post I....
3 May 1:35 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent] 

What a great day. Everything came together nicely, the weather, the cherry blossoms - a day off. It had been a while since I'd visited F....
30 Mar 12:45 pm  from  Japanese Castle Explorer   [Profile]  [Recent]