Sagara Castle

Sagara Castle
相良城
Makinohara, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
Site of Sagara jin'ya
Sagara Castle 相良城 is located in Shizuoka Prefecture
Sagara Castle 相良城
Sagara Castle
相良城
Sagara Castle 相良城 is located in Japan
Sagara Castle 相良城
Sagara Castle
相良城
Coordinates34°41′12.5″N 138°11′53.5″E / 34.686806°N 138.198194°E / 34.686806; 138.198194
Typeflatland-style Japanese castle
Site information
Open to
the public
yes
Conditionruins
Site history
Built1767
Built byTanuma Okitsugu
In useEdo period
Demolished1786

Sagara Castle (相良城, Sagara-jō) was a Japanese castle located in what is now the city of Makinohara, central Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. At the end of the Edo period, Sagara Castle had been degraded to a jin'ya and was home to the Tanuma clan, daimyō of Sagara Domain.