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Castle Shimura

Castle Shimura is the seat of Clan Shimura and one of the most important story locations in Ghost of Tsushima.

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Castle Shimura is the seat of Clan Shimura and one of the most important story locations in Ghost of Tsushima. It stands in Kubara Prefecture, Toyotama, south of Kin Falls and north-east of Kubara Falls. The castle is not a normal open-world settlement with a merchant, armourer or permanent collection of side activities. Instead, it is a story-bound fortress whose layout, occupants and accessibility change several times during the campaign.

The location’s importance is both strategic and personal. Militarily, it is the principal stronghold of Lord Shimura and the final major Japanese fortress in the central part of Tsushima. Narratively, it is Jin Sakai’s childhood home, the place where he was raised by his uncle, and the setting in which Jin’s conflict with samurai ideas of honour becomes impossible to avoid.

Castle Shimura should therefore be understood as a single named location with several progression states, rather than as a freely explorable castle-town region. The nearby Lord Shimura’s Camp, Kin Falls, Kubara Falls and surrounding roads are separate places and are not part of the castle itself.

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