Hikone Castle: A fun day trip in the Shiga Prefecture

I’ve been to a lot of castles in Japan. Some I’ve written about (like Matsumoto Castle, back in 2013)  but most end up in the thousands of backlogged photos I have optimistically squirreled away hoping to “blog about it someday.” (spoiler alert: “blog about it someday” really means “yeah, it’s probably never going to happen but I feel guilty and maybe I really will someday when I have more free time [insert forced laugh].