Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
Takanawa Okido
During the Edo period, a wooden gate was erected at each town, where guards would stand watch at a guardhouse. As the entrance to Edo city, Takanawa was called "Okido" (large wooden gate); it was a place of greetings and farewells, where travelers would arrange their traveling garb before setting off. A stone wall remains along the Daiichi Keihin track side. In order to create an accurate map of Japan, Tadataka Ino used Takanawa Okido as the starting point for his measurements. For 17 years he walked all across Japan, pushing the measuring cart he had devised himself. April 19th of year 12 of the Kansho era (1800) at the age of 55. Three years after Ino's death at the age of 74, his apprentices completed the map and presented it to the shogunate. Philipp franz von Siebold was discovered trying carry the map out of Japan and was deported as a result.
Takanawa Library
Takahama Park
The Shinkansen passes right next to the train. The Metasequoia which is said to be a living fossil is planted in the Tsukiyama in the central part. You can enjoy autumnal leaves in autumn.
Takahama Bridge
In March 1956, a steel bridge with a length of 56m and a width of 9m was completed in Takahama Canal. It is said that the bridge name is the mind of the bridge made to the landfill in Takanawa seaside.
Takahama Canalside Green Space
6 glass mosaic murals are installed on the promenade along the Takahama canal. Created based on the pictures of children from Mitate Nursery School, Konan Nursery School and Konan Elementary School, they add a gentle and warm atmosphere with the vivid, beautiful lustre and deep color of glass.
Katori Bridge
It is a concrete bridge with a length of 27.1 m and 9.5 m in width in March 1961. The name of the bridge, Kashima Shrine and Katori Shrine are both undertaken as a military God and named for the nearby Kashima Bridge.
Konan Ohashi Bridge
In June 1969, a steel bridge with a length of 218.5 m and a width of 24m was laid on the Keihin Canal. The bridge name is the mind of a large bridge over Konan town. On the east side of the bridge, there is a harbor cleaning plant and a port resource center, and a tour for environmental study is held (application required).
Konan Library
Minato Sakae Bridge
In September, 1960, the Shibaura Canal was 54.1 m long, and an 18m wide steel bridge was erection. It is said that the bridge name puts the mind of the development of the Tokyo port and was attached.
Mitatabashi Bridge
It takes to the Takahama Canal in March, 1966 with a steel bridge length 71.4 m and 17.5 m wide. The name of the bridge was Manyoshu ugliness and I got it from...
Five bridges
A steel bridge with a length of 17m and a width of 6m, September 6, Showa 10 It takes to Furukawa.
Goshiki Bridge
A steel bridge with a length of 93m and a width of 14.3 m was completed in February, 1962 in Takahama Canal. The name of the bridge was named after the five colors of Olympic Mark Olympics.
Furukawa Bridge
Construction in June 1968, a steel bridge with a length of 17.6 m and 37m wide. The upstream of the new Moat River was called Furukawa, and a private bridge was transferred to the city. The bridge that was put on by the Furukawa.
Motoazabu 3-Chome Ryokuchi
There is a biotope centered around the pond that pulls the spring water. In the pond, there is a quiet oasis in the center of the city where a variety of living things come because there are trees that live in medaka, tadpoles and dragonflies, and feed butterflies and birds. It is important to watch quietly so as not to surprise the creatures. * Biotope is a living space of a familiar creature that is made artificially to recall butterflies and dragonflies.
Keio Library, Keio Mita Speech Museum (national designated Important Cultural Property)/Keio University
Fukuzawa Yukichi's Cram school moved from Tsukiji to Shiba Shinhave been zeni in the Meiji era (Keio 4) and was named Keio University in the era of the year. It is said that the school did not rest during the Battle of the Ueno Akiyoshi Corps. In the spring of 1871, we moved to the location of the ruins of the house of Shimabara feudal clan. The Keio Library, which was completed in April of Meiji 44 as the 50th anniversary of its founding, is a national important cultural property. It is a magnificent British-style Gozik architecture composed mainly of red bricks, and the staircase landing in front of the entrance is fitted with a stained glass containing Latin with a "pen stronger than a sword".
Kansugi Bridge (if it is too much)
It became a reinforced concrete bridge in Taisho 8, and was remodeled in length 18.182 m, width 36.606 m, and May 1965. It takes to Furukawa.
Kubota Mantaro Haiku Monument/Keio University
He was born in Tokyo Asakusa, studied in Sanda, and was a master of Nagai Kafu and Koyamauchi Kaoru. Ever since I came into the world as a writer, I have never changed my life as a unique literati. The monument stands in the back of the library.
Birthplace of the Nurse Education Center
The nurses ' education in our country is attached to the volunteer Kyoritsu Tokyo Hospital (predecessor of the current Jikei University School of Medicine), and the founder of the Jikei University School of Medicine, a nurse education center which was a bum of the Nightingale Nurses Training Center, Meiji 17 (1884) from the United States, she invited Ms. M.E. Reed, who was appointed to crackdown on nurses, and began nursing education on Fridays and Saturdays. This is a place where medical care is supported, and the development of nurses who are active at the forefront of the work is done, and it is significant that it is a place that is still being held.
Rakusuibashi bridge
The bridge was replaced in March 1968, completing the steel bridge that is 76m long and 4m wide. The bride is managed by the Tokyo University of Fisheries and was named after the university's alumni association, Rakusuikai.
Kasumi Bridge (Kasumi)
A steel bridge with a length of 39m and 10m wide in June, 1960. The name of the bridge is from the beach where there is haze in the evening.
Kaga Chiguryo Monument/Yakuo
Yakuo, who was opened in Azabu Mamiana in the former Japanese 7 years (1621), moved to the current location in the 1st year of Kanbun (1661). Haiku poet Kaga Chiyo heard the rumor that the well water of Yakuo is a sacred water in the middle of the country Zhenyu and stopped here. Because the morning Glory was seen in the fishing bottle of the well when it woke up in the morning and it bloomed, it was thought that it did not sneak to draw water, and it written, and it was made to do, and it did, and it did, and it did, and it was said that Chiyo was made water. The well is still present.
Tomb of Oogsorai/Choshoin Temple
Confucian in the mid-Edo period. It has become a country designated historic site.
Kanoko Okamoto's birthplace
I was born in 1889 in this area where my family Onuki home. He studied with Akiko Yosano and departed as a poet. He married Ippei Okamoto, the founder of the manga World in Meiji 43, and his eldest son, who was born the following year, is Taro Okamoto. The writer's activity was only four years from died to 14 years.
Urashima Bridge
Completed a steel bridge with a length of 54.5 m and 7.3 m wide in the Shibaura Canal in Taisho 11. The bridge name is called the mind of the bridge which leads to the island which was able to be reclaimed ahead of Shibaura.
Ipponmatsu
Some legends say that this solitary pine tree was previously called "King of the Pines" and "Feather-Mantle Pine of Akizuki Mansion". In addition, there is also a superstition that if you put some Amazake (fermented rice drink) in a bamboo tube and give it to the pine as an offering, it will heal your coughs. This has become one of the Seven Wonders of Azabu. These myths and legends are thought to have been conceived from the fact that people saw this large tree on an ancient transport route as a sacred tree. The current pine tree was planted by the local town assembly after the war.