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Nakijin Castle Ruins 今帰仁城跡

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Nakijin Castle Ruins
Photo: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas — CC BY-SA 3.0 — via Wikimedia Commons · original

Nakijin Castle was a Ryūkyūan gusuku fortification in Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. It served as the capital of the Hokuzan kingdom. The castle was burned in 1609 during an invasion by the Japanese Satsuma Domain and has been in ruins since.

Source: en.wikipedia.org ↗, read 2026-09-10

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