In Japan, right at the foot of Mount Khime, there is a wonderful fortress castle, which looks like a large heron that opened the wings. And this castle, for the fact that its lines are so clean and honed, was called the castle of the white heron.

The basement of the castle is faced with a light stone. On this bright elevation, towers are built in several tiers. The towers are covered with roofs with curved edges. It is safe to say that this castle has been a kind of standard in the field of architecture for some time. And many architects “looked at him” at the time of the creation of other fortresses of Japan “looked” at him.

This castle began to be built in the middle of the XIV century, and the Samurai clan Akamatsu conceived its construction. In the future, this castle has repeatedly passed from hand to hand and from one samurai clan to another. And when the castle in the 16th century captured the military leader Totomi Hideesi, the castle was a rather miserable sight – so it was destroyed.

By the beginning of the XVII century, almost all the towers of the castle were restored and completed, among which, the highest was a 45 meter tower, which can be considered the main. A huge garden was broken around the castle, which is a spiral labyrinth, which has many dead ends that were designed to mislead the castle soldier. True, in fact, this trick has never been applied in practice, because the world has come to Japan.

In addition to its long history, the castle is famous for the fact that many films were shot in it. In particular, one of the first paintings about the famous agent 007 is James Bonde. The castle, as a kind of set of set, loved to use a well -known director A to create his films. Kurosava.

20 years ago, the castle was listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

Visiting such an amazing place is always the whole family so that your family trip is a full -fledged.