*:Ask any resident and they will say that the city's crown jewel is Kameyama Castle, located in the aptly named Kameyama Park. A reminder of Kameyama's glory days on the Tōkaidō, Kameyama Castle sits on atop a high stone wall looking down over Kameyama Junior High School and the rest of the city. Upon asking many residents about the history of the 'castle' (which doesn't look much like a castle at all) all I managed to get was 'Oh, we don't know what it was for, maybe not a castle at all, very mysterious!'. People have said that it may have been a storage facility for arms and other goods that were carried and traded along the Tokaido. Whatever the case, it carried a fairly high level of significance back in the day. Enough so to have it forever immortalized in Hiroshige Andō's famous series of paintings, 'The 53 stations along the Tōkaidō Road' (Kameyama is #47 in the series) which depicts travelers ascending to steep hill leading to the 'castle'. There's supposedly is a museum inside but it has never once been open. The castle looks quite beautiful during sakura season when it is illuminated by lanterns and colored lights.

*:Ask any resident and they will say that the city's crown jewel is Kameyama Castle, located in the aptly named Kameyama Park. A reminder of Kameyama's glory days on the Tōkaidō, Kameyama Castle sits on atop a high stone wall looking down over Kameyama Junior High School and the rest of the city. Upon asking many residents about the history of the 'castle' (which doesn't look much like a castle at all) all I managed to get was 'Oh, we don't know what it was for, maybe not a castle at all, very mysterious!'. People have said that it may have been a storage facility for arms and other goods that were carried and traded along the Tokaido. Whatever the case, it carried a fairly high level of significance back in the day. Enough so to have it forever immortalized in Hiroshige Andō's famous series of paintings, 'The 53 stations along the Tōkaidō Road' (Kameyama is #47 in the series) which depicts travelers ascending to steep hill leading to the 'castle'. There's supposedly is a museum inside but it has never once been open. The castle looks quite beautiful during sakura season when it is illuminated by lanterns and colored lights.

*:Getting to the castle is easy as pie, all you have to do is walk out of the station and go straight...you'll see it looking out over the town. The park is almost right next door, follow the stairs down, cross a small red bridge and then back up the other side and VOILA! Cool slide at your service!

*:Getting to the castle is easy as pie, all you have to do is walk out of the station and go straight...you'll see it looking out over the town. The park is almost right next door, follow the stairs down, cross a small red bridge and then back up the other side and VOILA! Cool slide at your service!