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Marble Village Lockheart Castle
Japanese theme park From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Marble Village Lockheart Castle (大理石村ロックハート城, Dairiseki-mura rokkuhāto-jō) is a theme park in the village of Takayama, Gunma Prefecture, Japan. It is based around a reproduction of a 19th-century Scottish castle.
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Milton Lockhart House
The Lockheart Castle, originally known as the Milton Lockhart House, was a residence built in 1829 in Carluke, Scotland by William Lockhart, a member of the British Parliament.[1] It was designed by William Burn.[2] The Lockhart family retained the residence until the Second World War.[1]
In 1987, the Milton Lockhart House was bought by Japanese actor Masahiko Tsugawa.[3] The mansion was subsequently deconstructed, and its original building materials were transported to Japan in 1988 via the Trans-Siberian Railway, with permission from Mikhail Gorbachev.[4] The residence was rebuilt in 1993 in the "Marble Village" theme park in Takayama. It was the first time a European mansion was relocated to Japan.[5]
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In popular culture
The theme park served as a filming location for several movies, TV series, and music videos. For example, the Lockheart Castle appeared in the 2019 film Fly Me to the Saitama,[6] and in music videos for the songs "Aristocrat's Symphony" by Versailles and "Mayonaka ni Kawashita Yakusoku" by Malice Mizer.[7][8]
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