Forts in Japan

historical Buddhist temple located in Osaka, Japan

ezo fortress in Hokkaidō, Japan

thumb|250px|right|Jinoshima, Okinoshima, and Awaji Island thumb|Views of Tomogashima (1798)

thumb|right|250px|Aerial photography|Aerial photograph of Shiryōkaku, courtesy of National Land Image Information (Color Aerial Photographs), Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (literally, "four-point fort") is a fort in the city of Hakodate in southern Hokkaidō, Japan. It was constructed in April 1869, during the Battle of Hakodate, three kilometres to the northeast of Goryōkaku by two hundred soldiers of the former Tokugawa shogunate and a hundred local villagers, likely under the direction of Ōtori Keisuke. Shiryōkaku has four bastions, and is sometimes known as the "b