Akō Castle in Hyōgo was built by the Asano clan, with Asano Naganao rebuilding it over 13 years after the Ikeda were dispossessed in 1645. The article names no architect. The infobox gives 1615, but the text gives no start or end years for the rebuild.
It is a flatland hirajiro castle with concentric moated enclosures in geometric shapes, possibly influenced by Western star forts. It has stone walls and a stone base for a planned five-story tenshu, which was never built. It had 12 gates and 10 yagura towers, a scale far beyond the domain's 53,000 koku.
The Mori clan ruled from 1706 until the Meiji Restoration. Most buildings were lost after the 1873 Abolition of Castles Ordinance. It became a National Historic Site in 1971 and was expanded in 2003. The article gives no hours.
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