Japanese Castles Junior Topic Pack

A Japanese castles topic pack for ages 7 to 11: meet Himeji, the White Heron Castle, label a castle keep, walls, moats and winding paths, put-it-in-order and before-or-after-1700 cut-out cards, a true-or-false quiz, a crossword where every answer is a real fact, a word search, a comic strip, a colouring page, a certificate and full answers. Japan is not one of the Key Stage 2 history options in England, so the teacher page offers it as enrichment.

What’s inside:

- Teacher page: where the pack fits (Japan is not one of the Key Stage 2 options in England, so it is offered as enrichment; Department for Education wording)

- Castles of Japan: four starter facts

- Himeji, the White Heron Castle: reading and questions (our own drawing)

- Label the castle keep (our own drawing)

- Walls, moats and winding paths: reading and questions

- Put it in order: four cut-out date cards

- Before 1700 or 1700 or later? Twelve cut-out sorting cards

- True or false quiz

- Crossword where every answer is a real fact

- Word search

- Comic strip to draw

- Roof ornament colouring page

- Japanese Castle Explorer certificate

- Answer key

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 17 (including cover and credits). Sizes: A4 (210 × 297 mm) and US Letter (8.5 × 11 in), both PDFs included in one zip.

Printing: Print at 100% / actual size on A4 or US Letter. Inside pages use light backgrounds and print well in black and white; covers are dark, so start from page 2 to save ink. The Junior Topic Pack order and sorting cards are meant to be cut out.

Every fact is checked against named source pages from UNESCO, JNTO, the Japan Tourism Agency, the Matsumoto Castle website, the Kumamoto Castle website, the Osaka Castle Museum, the Nagoya Castle website and the Department for Education (checked 3 Nov 2026), and the sources are listed on the pack’s credits page.

There are no photos in this pack: all drawings, puzzles and layouts are REALLYBYTE’s own work. Drawings are simplified impressions: not photographs, not reconstructions of any real castle, not to scale, and not copied from any site plan, map, guidebook, print, photo or book. Not affiliated with UNESCO, the Japan National Tourism Organization (JNTO), the Japan Tourism Agency, Himeji Castle, Matsumoto Castle, Kumamoto Castle, the Osaka Castle Museum, Nagoya Castle, Matsumoto City, Kumamoto City, Nagoya City, Osaka City, the Japanese government, the UK government or any museum. Their names, and the names of the places they look after, are used only to identify the places and sources we quote.

Licence: personal and single-classroom use. You may print as many copies as you need for your own family or your own class, and share it with your class through a password-protected platform. Please don’t resell, re-upload or share it publicly. For school-wide use, please email info@reallybyte.com.

Made by REALLYBYTE, the team behind japanese-castles.forts.im. Questions: info@reallybyte.com

This is a digital download: no physical item will be shipped.