Around it, numerous turrets and plaster walls are arranged.
Stone walls describe elegant curves.
This symmetrically beautiful silhouette reproduces the graceful figure of a heron about to take wing at any moment. It is about 370 years since Himeji Castle was constructed in its present shape. This is the only excellent castle which architecturally represents Japanese culture and, at the same time, has handed down its original design at the time of construction. Looking up at Himeji Castle, not a few people might think about this unique Japanese architectural beauty that was not influenced either by Chinese or Western culture, despite the remains of the age of civil wars. About 600 years ago the Japanese castle began to assume a truly castlelike shape, emerging from a stronghold or manorial house.