The castle was built in 1603. It was the castle for the first shogun, Ieyasu. You couldn’t take pictures inside the castle which is too bad because there was one really cool thing. When they built the castle, they made it so anytime anybody tried to sneak in, it made a noise like a bird. There were places were built into the floor boards and walls were guards could jump out and capture who was breaking in! It was pretty cool! Today, when everybody was walking it sounded like a bunch of birds! It was funny. We took some pictures of the outside. All of the carvings show how expensive it was to make the castle. It means the shogun had lots of money and power. And I’m sitting next to real gold.
Love,
Hilda
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