Akita

Akita lies in the plain of central Higo, around the castle town of Kumamoto. Katō Kiyomasa entered Higo in 1588 and completed a new castle on the Chausuyama heights in 1607. Its formidable stone walls rose above a town that became the seat of the domain. Kiyomasa also undertook river works, irrigation and reclamation, enlarging the productive lands that supported his government in Higo.