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Walk the field.
Read the city. Learn from castles.

Walking field reports through Japan's castle towns, layered with geography, economics, and urban design. We read the present-day city against the nawabari — the strategic layout the castle was built around.

FY2025-26 ─ CUMULATIVE
Field Reports
8
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Castles Surveyed
8
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Days in Field
25
days
Regions
6
reg.
08 / 08 REPORTS
FUKUOKA CASTLE — HERO
001
NEW
2026.04.18 — 04.20Kyushu

Fukuoka / Tenjin

A three-day walking field report through Kyushu's commercial heart.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Fukuoka Castle
平山城built 1607
DURATION
3 days
KANAZAWA CASTLE — HERO
002
ARCHIVED
2026.03.07 — 03.09Hokuriku早春

Kanazawa

Brand-equity management at the million-koku castle town.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Kanazawa Castle
平山城built 1583
DURATION
3 days
HAGI CASTLE — HERO
003
ARCHIVED
2026.02.14 — 02.16Chugoku

Hagi / Choshu

Walking the grid of the town that engineered Japan's modernization.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Hagi Castle
平山城built 1604
DURATION
3 days
MATSUMOTO CASTLE — HERO
004
ARCHIVED
2026.01.22 — 01.24Chubu厳冬

Matsumoto

The black-lacquered keep and the water grid that powers a winter castle town.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Matsumoto Castle
平城built 1593
DURATION
3 days
KUMAMOTO CASTLE — HERO
005
ARCHIVED
2025.11.30 — 12.03Kyushu初冬

Kumamoto

The two-tier castle town around a keep that is rising again.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Kumamoto Castle
平山城built 1607
DURATION
4 days
HIMEJI CASTLE — HERO
006
ARCHIVED
2025.10.18 — 10.20Kansai

Himeji

Reading the town plan still drawn by Japan's whitest castle.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Himeji Castle
平山城built 1609
DURATION
3 days
TSURUGA CASTLE — HERO
007
ARCHIVED
2025.09.05 — 09.07Tohoku晩夏

Aizu

A castle town that holds the memory of a siege and turned it into civic pride.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Tsuruga Castle
平山城built 1384
DURATION
3 days
HIKONE CASTLE — HERO
008
ARCHIVED
2025.07.12 — 07.14Kansai盛夏

Hikone

The geopolitics of the Ii clan and the geography of converging highways.
CASTLE / SUBJECT
Hikone Castle
平山城built 1622
DURATION
3 days