Nioh
Team Ninja's action RPG set in a fantasy version of late-Sengoku Japan (around 1600). Many of the game's stages are set inside or around famous Japanese castles — Himeji Castle features as an early major dungeon, and Osaka Castle and Edo Castle appear in later chapters. The game closely references the historical architecture of the period.
Castles featured
Himeji Castle
姫路城 · Himeji-jo
📍 Hyogo — Kansai
The undisputed king of Japanese castles — the only one that has never been captured, never burned, and never rebuilt.
Osaka Castle
大阪城 · Osaka-jo
📍 Osaka — Kansai
Japan's most famous castle story wrapped in a 1931 concrete tower — the history is spectacular, even if the building isn't original.
Edo Castle
江戸城 · Edo-jo
📍 Tokyo — Kanto
The largest castle ever built in Japan — now the Emperor's residence — where you can walk the foundations of the tower that ruled a nation for 265 years.
Sendai Castle
仙台城 · Sendai-jo
📍 Miyagi — Tohoku
The mountain stronghold of the One-Eyed Dragon — where Date Masamune's equestrian statue surveys the city he founded, from ruins that speak of a castle that never needed a main tower.
Gifu Castle
岐阜城 · Gifu-jo
📍 Gifu — Chubu
This is the mountain where Nobunaga declared he would rule Japan — and the view from 329 meters makes it easy to believe him.
Azuchi Castle
安土城 · Azuchi-jo
📍 Shiga — Kansai
The most historically important castle in Japan — Nobunaga's revolutionary 1579 masterpiece that invented the Japanese castle as we know it, gone after three years, its foundations still visible under the trees.