In 1599 the feudal lord Yoshiaki Omura ordered the building of Omura Castle, where his family lived for 270 years. The castle's stone basement remains more or less intact. From its huge size we can imagine just how big the castle was.In 1884 the Omura Shrine (shinto) was build in the Castle's main square and it was dedicated to Omura family.Nowadays the Castle is famous also because of its garden wonderful flowers. The Ōmura daimyo remained in residence at Kushima Castle until the Meiji Restoration of 1868. It was the seat of the local government until 1871, when the former Ōmura Domain was merged into the new Nagasaki Prefecture. The donjon was pulled down in 1871, as were all of the supporting structures. Today, only the moat and portions of stone walls remain.
In 1884, a Shinto shrine was erected on the foundations of the former keep, in honor of the spirits of the generations of Ōmura daimyo. In 1981, one of the yagura and some earthen walls were reconstructed. The site of the castle now forms Ōmura Park, which contains a number of protected plant species, including many examples of the Ōmura sakura and extensive public gardens.
In Kushima Castle, there is not the building now. But the Castle is famous also because of its garden wonderful flowers.This cache is a bottle of the glass with a red cover. Please be careful to the handling not to break it.
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