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Marugame Castle Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 4/27/2015
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

Marugame Castle (丸亀城 Marugame-jō), also known as Kameyama Castle and Horai Castle, is a hirayama shiro (castle situated on a hill surrounded by a plain) with a long and interesting history, located in Marugame, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.


The castle stands tall and proud on top of a mountain in the city of Marugame, overloking the surrounding plain. The views from the castle on a clear day are wonderful - the sea with islands and bridges, the mountains on all other sdes, and the city below.

Besides the stone walls, few of the buildings at Marugame Castle still stand today, though the Ote Ichino Gate, Ote Nino Gate, and the tenshu (keep), which underwent a major restoration in 1950, still stand. All of these original buildings have been declared Important Cultural Properties by the Japanese Government. Marugame castle is one of only a dozen Japanese castles to still have an original wooden tenshu built before 1860

The cache, a magnetic micro, can be found very close to the castle.
T = 3 because it's a hard walk up the hill.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Fvg qbja.

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)