Wakayama Castle (Japanese: 和歌山城) is located in the city centre of Wakayama (和歌山), Wakayama Prefecture, Japan. The castle sits at the mouth of the Kii (紀依) River, which is a symbol and historical site of Wakayama.
The castle sits on the top of Mt. Torafusu (虎伏山), so it is also known as Torafusu Castle (虎伏城).
The castle's current appearance matches renovations made by Tokugawa Yorinobu (徳川賴宣), tenth son of Tokugawa Ieyasu (徳川家康), in the early 17th century.
There is no admission for Wakayama Castle, but you need to pay if you want to go into tenshukaku (天守閣), the highest tower within the castle.
No photo is allowed inside tenshukaku, you can only take photos on the rooftop, from there you can overlook the whole city center of Wakayama.
At the end of the Edo (江戶) period (1867), the feudal structure fell apart, and Wakayama Castle was opened to the public for the first time.
The castle was destroyed by Allied bombing during World War II, but was rebuilt in 1958 out of concrete and is open to the public again.
