Hiroshima Castle

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Hiroshima Carp Castle Castleatau often called is a palace located in Hiroshima, Japan, which is home of the daimyo (feudal lord) of the Hiroshima han (fief). Originally built in the 1590s, the fort destroyed in an atomic bomb in 1945. Then rebuilt in 1958, a replica of the original which now serves as a museum of history of Hiroshima before World War II.
The castle originally consisted of wood, especially pine, and has attached wings to the east and south. The castle was completed roughly between 1592 and 1599, and designated as a National Treasure in 1931. Fortress reconstructed main tower features (tenshu) alone, which is made primarily of reinforced concrete. Its five-storey stands 26.6 meters above the stone foundation which, in turn, is 12.4 feet from the ground. However, in recent years, a gate and Yagura in ninomaru been re-built from wood by using the original method.
An excellent example of a hirajiro or flatlands (plains), the castle, Hiroshima castle once had three concentric trenches beside the river Otagawa to the west (now called Hongawa), which provide additional natural barriers. Two outer moat filled in during the late 20th century to the 19th and early, and much of what was once the castle grounds are now a modern urban area, including homes, schools, offices and shops. A number of secondary fort buildings, towers and the towers once stood, and a Shinto shrine called Jinja Gokoku Hiroshima is located in the deepest trench, which had moved there after 1945.