During the Sengoku period, when the area came under the control of the Yamana clan, the shugo of Inaba Province, the castle was rebuilt.

[5] With the rise of Oda Nobunaga, Inabe Province was conquered by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he assigned Wakasa Oniga Castle to a relative, Kinoshita Shigekata.

The central bailey at the summit is roughly pentagonal, with 50-meter sides, and contains the ruined foundations of a tenshu which was 10 meters square.

After his departure, Wakasa Oniga Castle was unoccupied and was under the control of the Ikeda clan of Tottori Domain.

It was abolished and broken due to the Tokugawa shogunate's rules limiting the number of castles per domain.