Link Odawara Castle was the original focus of the Odawara city. Odawara Castle was built in 1447 on a hill and was surrounded by a moat on the low side and dry ditches on the high side. Odawara Castle was destroyed in 1590, it was rebuilt on a smaller scale which is its current form around 1633, only to be destroyed in an earthquake in 1703. The current donjon is a 1960 concrete reconstruction. |