I’m going to search about Himeji Castle, but it is hard to return to Hyogo prefecture every week. So, I search about castles in Shiga for a while. In Shiga, there were about two hundred castles. But most of the castles are sites of the castles, now. There are mainly two reasons in this case. One is a battle in 15th century, the other is in Meiji era. In 15th century, when an enemy conquered a castle, there was a custom the enemy destroyed the castle. On the other hand, in Meiji era, there was civilization and enlightenment means breaking old custom. So, castles were symbol of the old custom, at that time.