Matsue Castle Ninomaru

The Japanese castles were built as a series of concentric fortifications made of walls, gates and yagura turrets. Many of the castles were preserved today only with the innermost fortification - honmaru, which was surrounding the main keep.

Photographed here at the Matsue castle is a part of ninomaru, the second fortification, with strong walls and a yagura turret surrounded by a wide moat.