[Aichi] Nagoya Castle & Tokugawa Art Museum Half-Day Private Tour

The castle Tokugawa Ieyasu built for his ninth son, and the family treasures that survived. Nagoya Castle was one of the great flatland fortresses of Japan, and its Honmaru Palace has been rebuilt using the original techniques - cypress joinery, gold-leaf sliding doors, painted screens by the Kano school, reproduced from photographs taken before 1945. Your guide explains the golden shachihoko on the roof and what they meant. The walk continues to the Tokugawa Art Museum, which holds the household goods of the Owari branch, including the oldest surviving illustrated scroll of the Tale of Genji.