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Le château en bref
On the coast of Tairadate, in Sotogahama, facing the Tsugaru Strait, the Tairadate battery is a defensive work from the late Edo period. After the landing of eight foreigners in 1847, the Hirosaki domain had a fan-shaped earthen rampart, about 2.3 metres high, built in 1849, enclosing a space of about 80 metres by 11 in which seven gun emplacements are still legible. Two entrances give access to the enclosure, which is crowned with pines, and a pine grove 1.8 kilometres long extends the landscape to the west. Dismantled after the opening of the country, the battery has been protected as a prefectural historic site since 19 April 2004.