So, yeah, maybe on my next trip to Japan I’ll try to schedule a full day to go through #Odawara castle PROPERLY. Oh, and maybe spend some time for shits and giggles at the nearby “interactive Ninja museum” 8/8 #CherryBlossoms2025

The rest of the exhibitions seem to be well curated and focused on putting #Odawara castle in historical context as the finale of the #SengokuJidai. i.e: not just “this was important” but “this is WHY this castle and the Hojo family MATTERED”. That’s good, that’s very good. 7/n

Now, I was hampered by time constraints and couldn’t really sit down to watch them all, but #Odawara castle has multiple (at least 3) re-enactment films with HIGH production values and from what I saw GOOD English subtitles. 6/n

… go ALL IN on the modern museum experience. Which is what #Odawara castle has done, and done BRILLIANTLY well from what I saw. 5/n

That’s NOT a criticism of any of the three BTW - #Odawara castle, #warrior, and #mikasa are all brilliant in their own ways (and yes I’ll be visiting Mikasa again later) 3/n

Ok, given the tendency of Japanese castles to burn down frequently, it shouldn’t be a huge surprise that the current iteration of #odawara castle is a 1960 restoration. So pretty much like #warrior and #mikasa in terms of “original” content. 2/n