Shingū Castle

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Shingū Castle (Shingū-jō) is a Japanese castle located in the city of Shingū, southern Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Shingū Castle was home to a cadet branch of the Mizuno clan, hereditary karō of Kishū Domain. Its ruins, along with the clan cemetery for the Mizuno clan, were designated a National Historic Site in 2003. The castle is also called the Tankaku-jō or the Okimi-jō.

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