Traveling Mercies: Ota Doshin

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Hakone, A Winter Wonderland

Visit Hakone and view Mt. Fuji without going too far from Tokyo.
Bedazzled by Yokohama Bay

Bright lights, a ferris wheel ride and a night cruise around the bay will never fail to make you fall in love with this city over and over again.
Cruising in Kanagawa

Go on a sunset cruise, sit back, relax and marvel at the beauty of the clouds.
The Meiji Shrine at Night

It's not only a place to ring bells for good luck, it's also rich in culture and history.
A Day at Sea Paradise

Sea food lunch by the bay and a close encounter with amazing sea creatures are great ways to break away from the busy metropolis.

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Friday, September 2, 2016

Honmaru Goten in Kawagoe

Entrance to the Honmaru Goten

This is the only remaining structure left of the Kawagoe Castle. The honmaru goten or the lord's residence was built in 1848 although the original castle was built 500 years earlier in 1457 by Ota Doshin and his son Dokan under the order of Uesugi Mochitomo. In the 1450s, the castle was held by the Uesugi clan, however, the Hojo clan seized it in 1537 as the latter started to expand its control in the Kanto region.When Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, conquered the Kanto area in 1590, he established Kawagoe as one of the main fiefs in his domain. Kawagoe became a military base for defending Edo and a commercial base for transporting goods to the center of Edo.