Komoro Castle in Nagano is a hirayama-style castle, now the Kaikoen park. An earlier fortification was built by the local warlord Oi Mitsutada. After Takeda Shingen took control, the site was rebuilt as a castle by 1554. The infobox credits Shingen or the general Yamamoto Kansuke, and the text credits Kansuke with directing the work. The article names no architect, dimensions or materials.
Takigawa Kazumasu received the castle in 1582 from Oda Nobunaga. Sengoku Hidehisa held it after 1590, and his son Tadamasa improved it, including the foundation of a three-story tenshukaku. Lightning destroyed the donjon in 1626, and it was never rebuilt.
Most structures were demolished or donated in 1871 after the Meiji Restoration. The Ōtemon, from the early Edo period, and the San-no-mon, rebuilt in 1765, are Important Cultural Properties. The article gives no hours.
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