Kakegawa Castle

Kakegawa Castle 掛川城
Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Main keep of Kakegawa Castle
The Ni-no-Maru Goten
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Coordinates	34°46′32″N 138°00′53″E / 34.775417°N 138.014733°E / 34.775417; 138.014733
Type	Hirayama-style Japanese castle
Site information
Open to the public	yes
Condition	reconstruction from 1994
Site history
Built	1469–1487,
Built by	Asahina Yasuhiro, Yamauchi Kazutoyo, others
In use	Edo period
Demolished	1869

Kakegawa Castle (掛川城, Kakegawa-jō) is a hirayama-style Japanese castle. It was the seat of various fudai daimyō clans who ruled over Kakegawa Domain, Tōtōmi Province, in what is now central Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan.