In June 1532, the Ikkō-ikki invaded Yamato Province and won a crushing victory over the armed monks of Kofuku-ji, whose remnants sought refuge at Takatori Castle.

In 1580, Oda Nobunaga secured control of Yamato Province and declared that all fortifications aside from Kōriyama Castle be destroyed.

After Hideyasu died at the age of 17 in 1595, Toshihisa's son, Honda Toshimasa, became Hideyoshi's direct vassal and was given a fief of 15,000 koku.

However, Toshimasa's son Masatake died without an heir in 1637, bringing an end to the Honda clan's rule.

In the Bakumatsu period, the daimyō residence at the foot of the mountain was one of the places attacked in the Tenchūgumi incident.

After the school burned down in 1942, it was preserved by the Kongoriki Sake Brewery and in 2004 was restored as the front gate of a children's park.

[6] The castle site is a 60-minute walk from the Kintetsu Railway Yoshino Line Tsubosakayama Station.