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Shikano Castle Town

Little knownBarely documented in English. This is the kind of place the site exists for.

조사·집필 Hinato

Shikanocastle townKamei clanmoatscherry blossom

돗토리현 · Tottori City

35.4589°N, 134.0626°E

Shikano was the seat of the Kamei family in the Sengoku period, and the street plan they laid out is still there — a grid of narrow lanes with the inner and outer moats of the castle surviving as water. It is a very small town in the hills south-west of Tottori city, quiet to the point of being sleepy, and it has none of the visitor infrastructure that Kurayoshi has.

The castle site is now a park, and in April its five hundred somei-yoshino come out around the moats and are lit at night, so that the trees and the walls repeat themselves in the water. Outside that fortnight the town is essentially empty. Parking is free, the hot spring at Hamamura is ten minutes away, and it is the sort of place you stop at because you were driving past rather than because anyone told you to.

기본 정보

영업시간

Streets and castle park open at all times | Evening illumination during the April cherry blossom period

휴무일: Open year-round

입장료

Free | Around 100 parking spaces, generally free

베스트 시즌

April for cherry blossom around the moats | Year-round for the empty streets

방문 소요 시간

60–90 minutes

가는 방법

교통 정보

Shikano, Shikano-cho, Tottori. By car from JR Tottori Station, from JR Hamamura Station, or 5–from Hamamura-Shikano-Onsen IC on the San'in Expressway. Free to visit. Around 100 parking spaces, generally free with some paid areas. Cherry blossom in the castle park peaks in April with evening illumination.

인사이더 가이드

**April is the fortnight.** Five hundred cherry trees around the moats, lit at night, reflected in the water. For the other fifty weeks this is a quiet grid of lanes. **Walk the moats.** Both the inner and outer moats survive as water, which is unusual for a castle site of this size, and following them is the way to read the plan. **There is very little open.** A few small businesses and craft workshops. Do not plan on lunch without checking. **Hamamura Onsen is ten minutes away.** Which is the natural pairing and where the accommodation is. **Free parking for a hundred.** Which tells you what the cherry blossom fortnight looks like and what the rest of the year does not.

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