Castle inches back to its proper spot | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Castle inches back to its proper spot | Honolulu Star-Advertiser

HIROSAKI, Japan >> After 11 years sitting off its foundation, the main keep of Hirosaki Castle is inching closer to its proper place.

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The castle is Hirosaki Castle, and it weighs around 400 tonnes. It has been standing in the wrong place for eleven years — shifted roughly 70 metres off its stone base in 2015 so that engineers could take the base apart, stone by numbered stone, and rebuild it before it collapsed. All 2,185 of them. The keep spent a decade sitting on a temporary platform in the middle of the park while they worked, which is why every photograph of Hirosaki Castl…