Located on the border between Owari and Mino provinces, this flat mountain castle was built on a hill about 88 meters high on the south bank of the Kiso River. It is also known as “Hakutei Castle.
Only the castle tower is extant. It is one of the “12 existing castle towers” built before the Edo period,
It is one of the five castles whose keep was designated a National Treasure (the others are Himeji Castle, Matsumoto Castle, Hikone Castle, and Matsue Castle).
It is said that Oda Hirochika, the younger brother of Oda Toshihiro, the head of the Iwakura Oda clan, built a fort here in 1469 during the Onin War.
Oda Nobuyasu, uncle of Oda Nobunaga, renovated the fort and built a castle.
Later, Ikeda Tsuneoki and Oda Katsunaga entered the castle, and during the Toyotomi administration, Ishikawa Sadakiyo (Mitsuyoshi) renovated it to its present form.
9:00-17:00 (enter the castle by 16:30)
December 29 - December 31
General admission: 550 yen
Elementary and junior high school students 110 yen
15 min. walk from Inuyama-Yuen Station
20 min. walk from Inuyama Station