Additional castle towers were lost due to various circumstances such as wars that broke out between the end of the Edo bakufu and the beginning of the Meiji era, the removal of castles according to the ordinance by the Meiji Government to abolish castles, and war damages that occurred during the Second World War.
しかも、幕末から明治にかけての戦争や明治政府の廃城令に伴う撤去、また災害や第二次世界大戦（太平洋戦争）での戦災などにより、更に失われた。