Yodo castle
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- Japanese:淀城(Yodo-jou)
- Type:Flatland
- Founder:Matsudaira Sadatsuna
- Year:1623
- Destroyed:1868
- Location:Yamashiro province
Yodo castle was the chief castle of Yodo han. It was located in what is today Fushimi Ward, Kyoto City.
The lord of Yodo played a role in overseeing travel up and down the Yodo River which connected Fushimi and Osaka; a special set of piers or stone steps, known as tôjin gangi and located near the taxation office about 200 meters north of the castle, were set aside for the exclusive use of Korean embassies to Edo, as they boarded or disembarked from riverboats they used to travel up and down the Yodogawa.[1]
