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CastleHyogo, Japan

Himeji Castle

White Heron Castle — Okiku's well and nine-plate counting voices.

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Japan's finest surviving feudal castle hosts the Okiku well legend — a servant thrown into the well whose ghost counts plates to nine. Night security reports footsteps on empty keeps.

Cherry blossom season crowds differ from winter silence on the walls.

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