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Crow Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 7/10/2009
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Crow --- My 200found memorial cache.

Here is called ”crow castle”.

Matsumoto Castle is in the town in the Nagano Prefecture Matsumoto city. The castle tower is specified for the national treasure.

It is said that it is a start from Warring States Period that the Ogasawara family that governed Shinano (Nagano) fortified it.
The invasion of the Takeda family was ruled back, and the receiving Ogasawara family fell, and the Takeda family ruled Matsumoto based on here.

Do the enter a castle of Kazumasa Ishikawa in 1590, and Kazumasa and the child Yasunaga maintained the castle and the bourg after having ruined the Takeda family though a lot of lords changed.
Afterwards, the Mizuno family and the Matsudaira family became lords here.

It was preserved by powerful local figures' efforts though it was in the crisis to which the castle tower was dismantled in recent years.

Cache is in the place where the castle tower can be closely seen though the castle tower is Matsumoto's symbol.
Because it is a sightseeing spot, Muggle is a lot of places that are.
Please note putting Cache in and out.

It is possible to climb the castle tower.
However, stairs are narrow, sudden, and note it, please.

Time of seeing in castle tower:
8:30AM - 5:00PM

Castle tower admission fees:
Adult 600 yen
Schoolchildren 300 yen

There are some pay parking lots in surroundings.

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松本城は長野県松本市の街の中にあります。天守閣は国宝に指定されています。
戦国時代に、信濃(長野)を治めていた小笠原家が築城したのが始まりといわれています。
後に武田家の侵攻を受け小笠原家は没落、武田家はここを拠点として松本を支配しました。
武田家滅亡後は、城主が数々変わりますが、1590年に石川数正が入城し、数正とその子康長が、城と城下町の整備を行いました。
その後水野家、松平家がここの城主になりました。
近年では、天守閣も解体される危機にありましたが、地元の有力者たちの努力で保存されました。

天守閣は松本のシンボルですが、キャッシュは、そんな天守閣を間近で見ることが出来る場所にあります。
観光地ですので、マグルが多い場所です。
キャッシュの出し入れにはご注意ください。

天守閣には登ることができます。
ただし階段が狭く急なので、ご注意ください。

天守閣観覧時間:
午前8時30分から午後5時まで

天守閣観覧料:
大人 600円、小中学生 300円

周囲には有料の駐車場がいくつかあります。

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Pnpur vf anab fvmr.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)