Characterized by its magnificent donjon and towering keeps, Kumamoto Castle is comprised of as many as 1,000 stone walls arranged in a complex fashion on its grounds. Viewers have long been left s ...

The fortification in the city of Kumamoto has stood as one of ... footage on Saturday showed a large section of the stone wall housing the castle collapsed in a dusty heap. A powerful 7.3 ...

The city of Kumamoto ... steep walls are curved in a way to make it virtually impossible for attackers to scale, an innovation for which Kiyomasa was widely lauded. The castle was besieged during ...

The 2016 earthquake damaged Kumamoto Castle, leaving its stone walls crumbling. We meet the stonemasons carefully restoring each stone to its original place and discover what they do for lunch.

The stone wall, which is 1.8 meters tall and 7 meters wide and runs east to west, is believed to have been a boundary that divided the central part of the castle and warriors’ residences.

The park was originally the grounds of Taishoji, a Buddhist temple established here in 1636 by Tadatoshi Hosokawa (1586-1641), the first Hosokawa feudal lord (daimyo) of Kumamoto Castle ... a ...

A historic city on Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands, Kumamoto is renowned for its imposing castle, rich regional food culture and friendly, welcoming inhabitants. The city ...