Japanese Castles Family Activity Pack

A Japanese castles activity pack for families, ages 5 and up: five colouring pages drawn by us, each with one true fact, a maze, spot the difference, a design-your-own-keep page, Useless the Eraser’s castle jokes and a 20-question family quiz, with answers.

What’s inside:

- Welcome page with Useless the eraser

- Five colouring pages, each with one true fact: a castle above a moat, a golden roof ornament, the White Heron Castle, three kinds of castle site and the way in

- Maze: find the way to the keep

- Spot the difference

- Design your own castle keep

- Useless the Eraser’s castle jokes (16, each built on a true fact)

- A 20-question family quiz

- Answers

- Credits, licence and sources

Pages: 16 (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.

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 and the Nagoya Castle website (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.