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| | Japan Travelogue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24) |
 | | The city of Ono, also known as Echizen Ono, is an old castle town in the eastern part of the Echizen region, situated in the center of a natural basin and surrounded by mountains, some over 1,000 meters tall. |
 | | Ono Castle (also called Kameyama Castle) was built by Kanamori Nagachika, a military commander who served under Oda Nobunaga near the end of the 16th century, during a period when the entire country was gripped by civil unrest. |
 | | The castle is situated at the top of a hill called Kameyama, which rises above the town to the west. |
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