Travel2Japan Winter, 2015 Volume 3 | Page 25

To the northeast of Fukui, in the town of Maruoka you will find a beautiful wooden castle on a hill with a commanding view of the valley below. The central tower, built in 1576 still remains. Inside the castle you can use a rope to climb the ‘steep samurai staircase’, originally designed to prevent invaders from storming the upper levels. And then there is Tojinbo…