Kokura Castle

It was built by Hosokawa Tadaoki starting in 1602, with construction completed in 1608.

Matsumoto Seicho Memorial Museum and castle garden were opened in 1998.

The castle is about a ten-minute walk from JR Kyushu's Kokura Station.

The north side of the moat is next to the Riverwalk shopping complex (completed in 2003).

[3] An old Japanese-style pre-Brunton lighthouse from Shirasu (白洲) is on the castle grounds.

Kokura Castle from the nearby Japanese garden