On a cloudy day of sporadic downpours, we found shelter inside one of Japan’s foremost national treasures, Nagoya Castle, in Nagoya, Japan. Established by Tokugawa Ieyasu, founder of the 2 ...

NAGOYA, Japan >> Nagoya is thinking about installing small elevators in Nagoya Castle to make the structure accessible to disabled visitors. The addition would come during a wooden reconstruction of ...

Atop a small mountain on the Higashi Matsuura Peninsula northwest of Karatsu City, the ruins of a castle built more than four centuries ago look out over the Genkai Sea toward Korea. Image: Vicki L ...

A large crowd bids farewell to a departing "moat train" at the now-defunct Horikawa Station in Nagoya's Naka Ward, Feb. 14, 1976. (Mainichi) Nagoya Castle, located in Nagoya's Naka Ward, was built in ...

Visiting the Hommaru Palace at Nagoya Castle is a study in traditional craftsmanship. In some rooms, vivid seasonal motifs are painted on gold leaf-coated sliding doors; intricately carved cranes seem ...

NAGOYA -- With a tiled roof and a statue of "shachihoko" (a creature in Japanese folklore with the head of a tiger and the body of a carp), the design of Nagoya City Hall's main building was inspired ...

1976 Nagoya, Japan, part 1: Nagoya Castle, street scenes, Noritake China Company—SILENT FILM CLIP This film clip is from Thayer Soule's travelogue, "Japan", archived in the Human Studies Film Archives ...