Inuyama Castle

Yesterday I went to Inuyama Castle. It's only a half hour north of Nagoya so it was really easy to get to and see in just a day. It's the oldest castle in Japan having been built in 1537. The castle wasn't all that big. It was maybe four or five stories tall I think. We had to climb these super steep wooden stairs to go from floor to floor. Here's a picture of it from the outside.

On the second floor they had some glass cases with like old, Japanese armor inside. Here's a picture of one of them.

Then we went up to the fourth floor balcony that you can see in the first picture. The city of Inuyama looks pretty much like Handa except they have a nice river. Here are a couple pictures of Inuyama from the top balcony of the castle.


While you might think from the pictures that the weather was nice that day, it was actually insanely cold. After the castle, the five of us got the idea to go to the next prefecture, Gifu which is north of my prefecture, Aichi. There were no open restaurants in Inuyama so we were sure that there would be some there. So we got on the train to Gifu, then walked around forever trying to find some food. Eventually we ate somewhere and then got back on the train to have some drinks in Nagoya. It was a great day.