Ikeda Castle

After visiting Tatatsuki Castle Park, I continued on to Ikeda Castle. 

It was about a 15 minute walk from the Ikeda Hankyu station and uphill.

This is the history from the JCastle website:

The castle was originally a small fortification built by Ikeda Noriyori in 1334. The Ikeda clan ruled the area from this time through to the Sengoku Period. The castle was involved in many battles and struggles for power in the area and gradually grew in size and strength with each. The castle fell to Oda Nobunaga in 1568. Nobunaga recognized the skills and intelligence of Ikeda Katsumasa, lord of the castle, and made him a retainer. Ikeda rebuilt and strengthened much of the castle learning from Nobunaga's castle techniques. Araki Murashige took over the castle in a coup in 1570 and expelled Ikeda Katsumasa from the castle. The castle was abandoned in 1580 when Araki moved to Itami Castle.

This was a nice park area and people were walking around and taking pictures, like me.

On the inside of the castle, along one wall on the first floor were some bird pictures.  I didn't see any real birds, but these must be birds in the area.

The view from the second floor of the castle is nice.

This was a great place to visit!

If you are interested in Japanese Castles, check out my Castle Page, with links to posts on the castles I have visited.