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The floors and walls are bare, except for an occasional narrow and claustrophobic, as the floors diminish in size the
exhibit or explanation. The castle is unfurnished, which is higher you go – is a shrine shrouded in purple garb. Osakabe
apparently authentic, as so much of the castle served as Shrine, as it is known, has its own rich history. For hundreds
an armory. The rooms were breathlessly quiet, giving the of years before the castle was built, a shrine stood on the hill
impression that we were walking in the ghostlike footsteps of and local people worshiped there, but after the castle was
princes and princesses, which we likely were. erected the shrine was off limits to ordinary folk.
On the tower’s top floor – which is understandably About 260 years ago the lord of the castle was ordered
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