福山城【新幹線のホームから間近に見える黒い鉄板張りのお城】尾道の一泊二日の旅の最後、大阪への帰り道に途中下車して寄りました。
Hello. This is the “Chia’s Outing” channel where she travels hard without a car. This time, I will be visiting Fukuyama Castle, a castle near the station that I stopped by on my way back from Onomichi. The black iron-clad castle is a must-see.
Before returning to Osaka by Shinkansen, I got off the train and arrived in Fukuyama at 2:30pm. You can sightsee for about three and a half hours until the Shinkansen leaves after 6pm. Fukuyama Castle is right after you exit the station.
Go to Tenmaya on the other side of the station. Fukuyama is famous for its roses. Anyway, I wanted to have some tea, but I didn’t have time to look for a cafe, so I
Decided to come to the department store. I had cafe time at an Italian restaurant, so I had the cheesecake set. Pass through the station and return to Fukuyama Castle. Autumn roses are blooming, but I would like to come during the spring rose season.
Passing under the stone wall next to the railroad tracks that was visible from the station, we reached the castle. bright. Fukuyama Castle was built by Katsunari Mizuno, a cousin of Tokugawa Ieyasu, as the feudal lord of 100,000 koku in Bingo, and at the time it boasted an unprecedented scale compared to Kokudaka.
Currently, there are various structures within the castle, such as the castle tower, the moon viewing turret, and the bathhouse. Among them, Fushimi Yagura and Sujitetsu Gomon were given to us by Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada when Fukuyama Castle was built in 1622, and are designated as national important cultural properties.
When Fushimi Yagura was dismantled and repaired in 1954, an inscription of “Matsunomaru no Higashiyaku (ra)” was discovered on the beam, which revealed that it had been relocated from Fushimi Castle in Kyoto.
The castle tower was burnt down during the war in 1945, and was rebuilt in 1966 as part of a project commemorating the 50th anniversary of the city’s incorporation.
In addition, since the north side of Fukuyama Castle’s castle tower at the time was covered with iron plates to increase its defense, in August 2022, when the
Castle will celebrate its 400th anniversary, donations from all over the country will be used to make it “the only one in Japan.” The “Reiwa Great Construction Project” has been completed, including restoring the exterior of Fukuyama Castle’s castle tower, including the iron plating.
I went there just as a major construction project had finished. I thought I would stay in Onomichi until the evening, but I’m glad I came to Fukuyama. The castle tower is now the Fukuyama Castle Museum, which will reopen in August 2022 to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the construction of Fukuyama Castle.
When I was looking at the city of Fukuyama from the top of the castle tower, I found a Western-style building. This is Fukuju Kaikan. After getting off, I went to take a look. Inside the museum, photography was not allowed except for a few exhibits. Admission fee is 500 yen.
There is a common admission discount ticket for “Fukuyama Culture Zone”, and since you will be given a discount ticket at the first facility, the group discount rate will be applied when you enter the next facility.
Targets include Fukuyama Art Museum, Fukuyama Calligraphy Museum, Fukuyama City Human Rights and Peace Museum, Fukuyama Literary Museum, and Fukuyama Kusado Sengen Museum.
I had previously been to Fukuju Kaikan, but I didn’t have time so I wasn’t able to use it, but I’d like to come during the spring rose season and have a look around. If you look at it from here, it looks like a black and white castle.
There was an explanation of the foundation stone of Fukuyama Castle’s old castle tower. The former castle tower of Fukuyama Castle, which was burnt down in an air raid, was built with a complete structure that can be said to be the culmination of castle architecture
. By standing unchanged and connecting them with thick beams, it became a structurally stable and strong structure.
The foundation stones that supported the pillars of this castle tower remained in the castle tower anagura even after the castle tower burned down, and when it was rebuilt, they were relocated to their current location with the same layout, turned 180 degrees, and are still in place today.
I came to Fukuju Kaikan which I saw from the castle tower earlier. This place is located on the north side of Ninomaru of Fukuyama Castle, and was home to the Fukuyama clan’s rice warehouses during the Edo period.
Gosenkokugura was a storehouse that stored rice stored by the shogunate, and was used to provide relief for the fire that occurred in Tsushima in 1732 (Kyoho 17) and for the famine that occurred in Choshu in 1732 (Kyoho 18). Fukuyama Castle’s rice reserves are being donated.
Most of the storehouse was demolished in 1750, and the surrounding land was sold to the private sector in the Meiji era. Fukuju Kaikan was built in the early Showa period by Mr. Kazusuke Abe, who made his fortune as a seafood merchant.It has a main building, a
West tea room, a south tea room, a west storehouse, an east storehouse, and a Western-style building, all of which are registered tangible cultural properties of the country. It becomes.
The main building is a Sukiya style building that uses many materials that are not available today, from the hallways to the ceiling, and is a building of great value today. Tours of Fukuju Kaikan are free, and you can even enter the building.
Fukuyama city bird view map. This is the cityscape of Fukuyama City in 1950.
The main building is a one-story building built based on the “Sukiya-zukuri” style. The front entrance has a “Japanese cypress bark roof” and a “Chinese gabled roof” that resembles a shrine, and the ceiling has a “coffered ceiling” with a lattice pattern.
The rooms are divided into a total of five rooms, which are used to welcome guests: the large hall, the hall, the entrance hall, the entrance antechamber, and the north guest room.
The large hall is 21 tatami mats in size, with a 9-shaku floor in the center of the front, a different shelf on the right, a top and bottom shelf on the left shelf, and a shoin in the foreground, covered with noble tatami.
Continuing from the large hall, there is a 14-tatami-mat hall with loquat flooring on the left side of the one-room floor, and from the wide veranda on the south side, it is designed so that you can see the castle over the garden, especially in front of you. The majestic sight of the towering castle tower is a spectacular sight.
There was a cafe. It seems like it can be used easily. I wanted to tour the Western-style building, but I heard that the second floor is a conference room for rent.
In addition to the existing buildings on the grounds of Fukuju Kaikan, there are also buildings that were burnt down in air raids, and this area is said to be the remains of those buildings.
The iron plated side of the castle tower can be seen both from the wide veranda of the building and from the garden, but only the north side of the Fukuyama Castle castle tower was completely covered with iron plates except for the 5th floor.
The purpose of this was to prepare for wind and rain, and because the castle tower was located on the north side of the main enclosure, it was to protect against direct attacks from outside. It is extremely unique even among castle towers across the country, and there is no other example of it.
I was able to enjoy the black castle tower covered with iron plates. Go to Sanzo Inari Shrine next to Fukuju Kaikan. When Fukuyama Castle was being built, Katsunari Mizuno enshrined it within the castle grounds as the guardian deity of Bingo Province.
It is said that the name originates from the fact that at some point a mysterious samurai was escorting Katsunari Mizuno’s procession, and when asked for his name, he said, “My name is Sanzo, and I live on the north side of the castle.”
Since then, it has been a shrine that has been worshiped directly by successive generations of castle lords. Return to the castle and tour around the turret. The photo shows a walk around the entire area, but I will quote the explanations of the turret from some of the information boards.
Kagami-yagura and Tamon-yagura ruins. The mirror turret located in the center of the east main enclosure is thought to have been newly built at the time of the castle’s construction. Looking at old photographs, we can see that the roof on the east side of the first floor has a small gable, giving it a very distinctive appearance.
It was demolished in 1873 (Meiji 6) under the Castle Abandonment Order, and the site became a place of worship. It was rebuilt in 1973 (Showa 48) with a donation from Ginichi Murakami, an honorary citizen of the Fukuyama clan.
Currently, it is used as the “Kagamiyagura Archives” and holds many valuable local materials. Tamon-yagura is connected to Kagami-yagura and continues until near the castle tower. There was a bend near the current eastern entrance, and the stone wall was raised a little higher.
There was a pavilion tower near the bend, which was connected to the building facing the back of the Honmaru Palace through a hallway and served as a viewing point. The long Tamon Yagura turret characterizes the exterior of Fukuyama Castle and further enhances the castle’s defenses.
Moon viewing turret. It is a 20-turret tower located at the southeast corner of the main enclosure of Fukuyama Castle, and has an attached turret on the north side.
Many documents say that the turret was relocated from Fushimi Castle like the Fushimi turret, and in the early modern topography “Biyo Rokugunshi,” the turret that was relocated from Fushimi Castle “has pine circles on the door pillars, etc.” There was a note.”
According to old photographs taken in the early Meiji period, the walls on the first floor are large, with no pillar-shaped or long-painted walls, unlike those of Fushimi Yagura.
A magnificent Karahafu is installed on the roof of the first floor. Like the top floor of the castle tower, the second floor had no walls, and the south and west sides had an elegant appearance with balustrades.
It is also written as “Tsukimi Yagura” in illustrations from the Mizuno family era, and as the name suggests, it was a turret for viewing the moon.
It remained for a while after the castle was abandoned in 1873 (Meiji 6), but it was later demolished and a rental place called “Ashiyokan” was built in 1888 (Meiji 21). Ashiyokan was destroyed in the Fukuyama air raid on August 8, 1945, and was rebuilt along with the castle tower and bathhouse in 1966.
I arrived at Fukuyama at 2:30pm and was able to enjoy Fukuyama until I left for Osaka at 6pm. The castle is right in front of the station, so it’s very easy to go sightseeing, so we recommend sightseeing on your way back from Onomichi.
When I went out after eating ramen for an early dinner after 5pm, Fukuyama Castle was lit up. I was curious about what looked like a foreign cathedral, so I looked into it, and it turned out to be a wedding venue. I was able to see Fukuyama Castle illuminated from the Shinkansen platform.
My two-day, one-night trip to Onomichi was packed with lots of fun and I was very satisfied. Thank you for your viewing. Please rate highly and subscribe to the channel.
大阪から尾道に行くには、福山まで新幹線に乗って在来線に乗り換えるので、帰りは福山観光もしました。福山城は駅のホームから見えている駅のすぐ側に立つお城で、他に類をみない黒い鉄板張りの名城です。尾道のついでに是非！
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※一泊二日の尾道の旅行の最後の福山城の部分を取り出した動画です。先に尾道の総集編を上げてしまったので、変な順番になってすみません。
尾道一泊二日の総集編動画です。
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