Wednesday, October 17, 2012

Lockhart Castle

 Mikeneko Holmes no Suiri (2012), episode 03 & 04
credit goes to Stormy

I always curious about this castle because it appears on a lot of Japanese Drama....finally I screenshot the castle from one of the drama, Mikeneko Holmes no Suiri and used Google Goggles (android app) to search for some clue and bam! it gives results...thank you Google Goggles...

Anyway, it leads me to Japanese Wiki so I used Google Translate to read it and as you know, it is not the perfect sentence or paragraph or even translation but at least I got the castle name.

The castle name is Lockhart Castle. It is located inside Marble Village at Gunma prefecture. From what I read at Japan Travel Guide website (click here), this castle originally built at Scotland but an actor, Tsugawa Masahiko (can be seen in some drama such as Mei-chan no Shitsuji as Mei-chan's grandpa or Saigo no Yakusoku as Kuroki Meisa's character's father who I forgot his character name) bought it and then the castle been disassembled, shipped to Japan and pieced back together at its current place.

If you can read Japanese, you can check it out at the Wiki website (click here)

Inside the Marble Village there are other attractions such as Museum of World Santa (displaying Santa Claus dolls from around the world), Jewelry Collection (displaying famous persons' jewelry such as Marilyn Monroe), and etc etc... I am too lazy to write it all and don't really want to copy paste from the other websites....keke

Anyway, here are other screenshots where the castle appear that I know of.... XD...the castle appear in Kaibutsu-kun too but I am too lazy to search the castle in Kaibutsu-kun drama... keke

Atashinchi no Danshi (2009)

Kindaichi Shounen no Jikenbo Season 1 (1995), episode 07 & 08

0 Goshitsu no Kyaku (2009)
credit goes to Stormy

Yukan Club (2007)

Yamato Nadeshiko Shichi Henge (2010)
credit goes to subber

There are also some Promotional Videos also featuring this castle such as Exile, Versailles, buono!, Kanjani8 etc etc

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