This feels... right. Like a great disturbance in the universe has been fixed.
Now I demand we make fun of chicken lady for being so tiny.
Yeah, the castle was built on a hill called Hime-yama, to take advantage of the terrain.
Also you can't see it any more, but there was actually two more rounds of fortifications surrounding the whole complex. The first walled in the military garrisons (samurai homes, basically) and the second surrounded the Himeji castle town. It was one of the very rare examples of a fortified city in Japan.