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The Ultimate Guide to Ueda

Visit This Hidden Gem in Nagano

Donny Kimball
12 min readMay 14, 2023

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Ueda Castle is a stronghold in central Japan that used the best innovation of the day to protect the local communities and samurai from opposing forces.

These days, almost everyone has heard of Nagano. Thanks to its capital city being the host of the 1998 Winter Olympics, this part of central Japan has a lot of recognition internationally (even among those who have never visited the country before). Alas, while places like Nagano City and the ski…

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Donny Kimball

I'm a travel writer and freelance digital marketer who blogs about the sides of Japan that you can't find in the mainstream media. https://donnykimball.com/