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Le château en bref
On the shore of Lake Biwa, Nagahama Castle was the first castle of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, then still named Hashiba. Rewarded by Oda Nobunaga after the fall of the Azai, he settled around 1575 in the village of Imahama, which he renamed Nagahama, and there built a castle bathed by the waters of the lake, around which a merchant town grew up. After the Battle of Shizugatake in 1583, the castle passed to Yamauchi Kazutoyo, then, after Sekigahara, to Naitō Nobunari. It was dismantled in 1615, and part of its materials was used in the construction of Hikone Castle. In 1983, a concrete keep was erected on the site, within Hōhō Park, and houses a museum devoted to the history of Nagahama.