Terauchi Ohata, Akita City, Akita Prefecture, etc.
telephone number
018-845-1837
Opening hours
9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
closing day
Year-end and New Year holidays (from December 29th to January 3rd)
Admission fee
210 yen for adults, free for high school students and younger
Access to Akita Castle
Approximately 20 minutes by bus from Akita Station on the JR Ou Main Line, Uetsu Main Line, or Akita Shinkansen.
History of the Kubota clan, whose domain office is Akita Castle
Kubota domainThe Satake clan ruled until the end of the Edo period.
The Kubota domain, also known as the Akita domain, was ruled by the Satake clan until the end of the Edo period, when the domain of Hitachi Province was reduced to Akita due to siding with the Western army at the Battle of Sekigahara. The Satake clan is a prestigious family descended from the Minamoto clan, and after moving to Akita, in addition to the main family, the
Yoshinobu Satake, a daimyo in Hitachi Province with a wealth of 540,000 koku, was transferred to Dewa Province because he refused to comply with Tokugawa Ieyasu's request to dispatch troops. The amount of koku decreased drastically to just over 200,000 koku.
