Okayama Castle

I visited this castle a few years ago, when it was closed for repairs. If I didn’t know it was the same castle, I never would have guessed it!

This is what J-castle writes about it - 

Ukita Naoie began construction of the castle in 1573 but it was not completed until 1597 by his son Hideie. After the Battle of Sekigahara, Kobayakawa Hideaki was given control of the castle but he died just two years later. Ikeda Terumasa's second son, Ikeda Tadatsugu (a grandson of Tokugawa Ieyasu), became the new lord of the castle. The Ikeda family continued to rule until the Meiji Period. This was another one of the great castles of the Edo Period but was unfortunately destroyed in the air raids of 1945.

There is no charge to walk around and see the outside of the castle.The admission fee for entry into the renovated castle is 400 yen.

The inside of the castle is new and polished, like a beautiful new museum.

The top floor has views in all directions.