Koromo Castle

En un regard

Le château en bref

Koromo Castle, nicknamed Shichishū-jō, the "Castle of Seven Provinces" because seven neighbouring provinces could be seen from its hill, occupies the hilltop now crowned by the Toyota Municipal Museum of Art. It is a late castle: in the 18th century the shogunate authorised a stronghold for the Naitō clan, but the first works beside the Yahagi River were ruined by floods, and the castle was finally completed around 1785 on the higher ground. It remained the seat of the Koromo domain until the Meiji era. The site later housed a high school, then the art museum and a park. Stone walls, a remnant of the moat and a reconstructed corner turret survive. The town of Koromo took the name Toyota in 1959, in honour of the carmaker established there since 1938.