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The Matsue castle is a hill-on-the-plain castle in the Matsue city area. He is Hirashiro who utilized for the maximum the profit of the water made by the ridge of the Shinji lake. A basis is also a famous castle of San-in which Yoshiharu Horio started construction work at the place with a mountain like a slightly elevated hill called the Kameda mountain in 1607, and was completed in 1611. The height of the castle tower of the Matsue castle is about 30m, and since the altitude of the Kameda mountain is 28m, the rows of houses of Matsue from five-layer the castle tower of the sixth floor can be looked down on from about [ 50m ] height. Yoshiharu Horio who built the Matsue castle is also a leader of the Toyotomi family once, and he is the general called expert of construction of a castle. It is efficiently employed also in the Matsue castle and the image is 360m of east and west centering on a castle tower,It seemed to be the castle of very strong structure by the rampart spread also around many [-fold ] by the time it had a site of vast width called 560m of north and south, 20m or more in width which led water began from the Shinji lake in a certain Uchibori and it arrived to the castle tower. The castle tower designated as the important cultural property of the country serves as practical structure which eliminated brightness, and can hear about the wisdom of Yoshiharu a general and Horio in which Seki has survived many war, such as a battle of a field. Although it was such a Matsue castle, it goes into Meiji Era, and the building of the inside of a castle is taken entirely, and is crushed by the fortress demolition command in 1873 (Meiji 6), and there are circumstances from which only only the castle tower was protected by preservation movement. In the San-in district, if this Matsue castle is removed, there is no castle where a castle tower is existing, and it could be called a very precious thing also in that meaning. Although the time zone of twilight nearness called at the Matsue castle this time and it was not able to carry out slowly, when narrow steep stairs were still reached and it resulted in the castle tower, the view in Matsue from there had a very much wonderful thing. It was made to think that it probably perceived immediately and correspondence was possible even if it should receive an enemy's attack, if a view is this much good. The Matsue castle is improved as a Matsue Shiroyama park now. Although entrance public inside a garden is no charge, 550 yen is independently needed for going up to a castle tower as an admission fee. Entrance time will be till April - 18:30 [ 8:30 - ], October - 17:00 [ 8:30 - ]. Moreover, there is also tour which takes a sight-seeing boat called the Horikawa circulation at Uchibori of a castle, and turns around about 4km over 50 minutes, and a charge can be used for 1200 yen. If it gets down at the San'in National Expressway Matsue west interchange and access to the Matsue castle goes to a Matsue in the city, the guidance signboard has come out of it. The parking fee is 800 yen more 500 yen 300 yen in the nearby parking lot before a Matsue city-owned major company for less than 3 hours more than per hour for less than 1 hour.
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