Nijō Castle in Kyoto was built as the Kyoto residence of the Tokugawa shōguns. The text says construction was ordered in 1601 and completed in 1626, while the infobox gives 1624. Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered western feudal lords to contribute. The article names no architect, and attributes the Ninomaru garden to Kobori Enshū.
It is a plains castle with Edo-period palace architecture, on a site of 275,000 square meters (68 acres). The Ninomaru Palace, 36,000 square feet (3,300 m²) across six connected buildings, is built almost entirely of hinoki cypress with gold leaf, carvings and Kanō school paintings. Its nightingale floors chirp when walked on, which the text says comes from clamps moving against nails.
The tenshu burned in 1750 and the Inner Ward in 1788. Honmaru Palace was partly rebuilt in 1893 to 1894 with material from Katsura Palace. Kyoto received the castle in 1939, and it is open to the public as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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