Kururi Castle

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Kururi Castle (Kururi-jō) is a Japanese castle located in Kimitsu, southern Chiba Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Kururi Castle was home to a branch of the Kuroda clan, daimyō of Kururi Domain. The castle was also known as Rain Castle (U-jō), after a legend that it rained twenty-one times during its construction, or, on average, once every three days. It is located on a 227 meter hill.

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