When you are suggested to visit the ruins of a city castle in Fukuoka, you immediately start to imagine the following: archeological excavations, the remains of the old architecture in the form of various walls and big empty spaces, where beautiful buildings stood long ago. That is how it would be if we were talking about some other country, not about Japan.

The ruins of Fukuoka Castle are not actually ruins. In fact, this is a partly reconstructed castle complex with beautiful buildings, carefully restored and refined parts of destroyed buildings, and, of course, a beautiful garden.

The history of Fukuoka Castle started in 1600. One of the famous warriors got a reward for his reward for war services. The reward was the lands where the city of Fukuoka is founded. At that time, there was already a castle on this territory, but the new owner did not like it. So he decided to abandon it and build a new castle, more reliable, beautiful and in a better location. This is how the construction works of Fukuoka Castle started.

Just after seven years, when the construction works were finished, the new castle became the biggest one in the province. The new complex took more than 40 thousand square meters. Its territory had 47 defensive towers, a fabulous palace, a temple and many similar constructions with well-planned localization and exquisite architectural design.

In fact, the complex comprised two castles: the inner one (which was partly preserved to our time), where houses of the nobility and a sanctuary were located, and the outer one that housed the residences of warriors, homes of common people and small temples. Fukuoka became a city adjoint to the castle which is famous for the successful trade and craft workshops.

Today, there is a beautiful park on the territory of the former castle. It includes a couple of sports grounds, a courthouse built in a national style and an art museum. As for the castle constructions, they are represented with several preserved gates, restored lookout jaguar towers and stone walls of the former palace buildings.