Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
Kim Sugiura
Shibaura (present Shiba Park) and Kim Sugiura flourished as fishermen's Village since the Edo period, and it was an important place in "Edomae" as a "kana-ura" to present fish to the Shogun family. Even now, you can old times in the scenery of the town with the houseboat and the Funjuku in the vicinity of Kim Sugiura.
Gyoran Temple
Gyoran is a basket of fish. The principal image of the temple is a bodhisattva Gyoran that carrying the basket with fish in the right hand. It is said that it was shaped based on the story that the Buddha appeared in the age of the Tang Dynasty, and it spread the Dharma while selling the fish put in the bamboo basket.
Gyoran Saka
It was named because there was a temple which enshrined the Gyoran Kannon in the hillside.
Monument to the Fish memorial
There is a thing hitoshio infinite emotion when I wake up the company to fish, and work on the fishery thing and think about the development of industry and contribution to the society earnestly, and to overcome difficulties and look back on the footprints which came to the present. The fish memorial was erected with a deep appreciation that it is thanks to the marine products that there is today.
Beef Narasaka
It was named because the cow which pulled a car with bad road surface was suffered in Atsugi Street which exits from Akasaka to Aoyama. It is also called Sayasasaka.
Ushizaka
It is imagined that a cow car came and went in the ancient traffic route following the Kogai Bridge with the legend of the source and the platinum long person.
Former Kimura-ya
There is a retro-atmosphere building along the intersection when you're at the Shibaura 1-chome intersection. This is the former Kimura-ya building in Taisho 10. Takuya Kimura became the location of the "Love Generation" (Fuji TV), and became famous suddenly.
Kyunogitei (The Former Nogi Residence)
On September 13th, the day of the imperial funeral of Emperor Meiji during the first year of the Taisho Era (1912), General Nogi, a military officer of the Meiji period, and his wife committed suicide at the general's mansion. Before he studied abroad in Germany, the general had been a fashion-conscious person. However, after studying abroad, it is said that he became a military officer unmatched in seriousness. As a general's residence, this mansion is very plain. They say that the mansion created a sensation because it was contrasted with the relative splendor of a stable built of bricks. The inside of the mansion is open to the public every year on September 12th and 13th. Adjacent to the mansion stands Nogi Shrine. In front of the shrine is Nogizaka, which was formerly known as "Yureizaka." It was renamed "Nogizaka," at the same time as General Nogi's funeral, which was held during the first year of the Taisho Era (1912). The Nogi mansion is in Nogi Park. In the park are large cherry trees, which delight visitors every year with their splendid flowers. The Former Nogi Residence is open to the public (September 12th and 13th).
Old Dai Tokuin Mausoleum, Somon
Kan'ei 9 (1632) is the temple of the second shogun Tokugawa Hidetada in construction. In 1945, Tokyo's large air raid, only a few gates were saved to escape the disaster.
Old Shimbashi Station Railway History Exhibition Hall
The Shimbashi station building, which opened for business in 1872, has been reconstructed based on its appearance at the original time and place. As part of excavation starting in 1991, the foundation stones of the station building, platform, and other areas inside the station grounds were excavated, and in 1996 parts of the remains were designated as a national historic site. The site was to be protected, and a reconstruction was built to commemorate the history of the birth of the railway. Located inside are a railway history exhibition room and an exhibition of items dug up during the excavation.
Kyu-Shiba-Rikyu Gardens
The Kyu-Shiba Rikyu Garden is one of the oldest gardens owned by a feudal lord, estimated to have been built between 1678 and 1686. It is a circular pond typical of the early Edo period, with a well designated garden in the heart of the pond and exquisitely arranged ring of boulders around it, designated as one of the 'National Places of Scenic Beauty'. This was place originally part of the sea, but was later reclaimed and served as the residence of Elder Ōkubo Tadatomo. Tadamoto had a garden built at the same time as the main mansion and named it "Rakujuen". Several owners later, it became the Shiba mansion of the Kishu Tokugawa family at the end of the Edo period. It was acquired by the Arisugawanomiya family in 1871, subsequently purchased by the Department of the Imperial Household in 1875, and became the Shiba-Rikyu the following year. It was damaged during the Great Kanto Earthquake, but was restored in the following year by the city of Tokyo to commemorate the marriage of the Crown Prince (Emperor Showa). It has been open to the public since 1924.
The former Hosokawa House
At the side of Takamatsu Junior High School, the former Hosokawa mansion, which has a height of 7.4 m and 17m tall, stands for the city's natural monument. This is a sdagei, evergreen big tree that blooms in the summer and matures in the autumn of the following year. The mysterious drifting tree makes you feel the twists and turns of history. Besides this sdagei, a big tree such as the Zelkova is left in the school.
Former National Institute of Public Health
It is a research and research institute aimed at improving public health in Japan, which was re-established and abolished in 2002. The buildings and facilities were donated by the Rockefeller Foundation to the Japanese government. Currently, with some members of the National Institute of Infectious Diseases, it has become the National Institute of Health sciences and has been relocated to Wamitsu City, Saitama Prefecture.
Former collaborative Hall
The net is closed due to aging, but it is a "collaborative hall" built as a look of the Shibaura flower Yanagikai in Showa 11. It is the work of master Carpenter Sakai Hisagoro who was active in the Meguro Gajoen in the modern Japanese-style building which is considered to have skillfully folded the technology and the design of the modern wooden building and did the luxury. In Shibaura, it is the only remains that leaves the remnants of a former flower town.
Former Iwasaki House Garden (Kokusai Bunka Kaikan)
Mitsubishi's fourth and Iwasaki Koyaita is a garden that was commissioned and built by the seventh generation Shibei Ogawa, the first architect of Kyoto's "Umeji". It is said to be a masterpiece of the modern garden which leaves the remnants of Edo early, and it has been designated as a scenic spot in Minato-ku in 2005.
Kunkoku Shrine
The Kukoku shrine is enshrined the god of Fukutoku harmony. It is respected as "Kukuni Inari Daimyojin" because the donated of the Treasure Sword of the NIT and Hisakuni work in the Kamakura period. In addition, the forehead of the front front shrine is assumed to be the one by the brush of Katsukaifune. He is the only real person in the seven Lucky Gods and a priest. I wore a petite, pot belly, torn robe and always had a big bag. In the bag, everything needed for daily life was included. It is said that it is good to foresee the fortune-telling and the weather, and the body did not get wet even if sleeping in the snow. Moreover, it is said that it is an incarnation of Maitreya, and it is called a sack-sama in China today.
Hirotomo Kikuchi Memorial Museum
The museum opened in 2003, "Hirotomo Kikuchi Memorial Museum of Art" ("Kikuchi") is a contemporary ceramics collector Satoshi Kikuchi, founded on the ground of the relationship between the father and Hirominoru Kikuchi was a businessman. A dignified atmosphere is transmitted through the building. In this unique exhibition space, there is an aesthetic space, such as cast iron at the entrance door, marble floor, the entrance book, the Portrait of a mistress of Momo Shinoda, and a sparkling railing with transparent glass of spiral staircase toward the basement exhibition hall. Exhibitions are held with a focus on contemporary ceramics. Tiffany's specially crafted stained glass features a selection of furnishings.
Kamezuka Park
As the name "Kamezuka" ("turtle tomb") suggests, there are turtle mound stones throughout the park. It also has turtle shaped spring play equipment, name boards and so on. Stairs were added to sloped areas in 2007, making it possible to come and go from Mita 3-chome and 4-chome by going through the park. The park also preserves the Kanto dandelions that have become rare in the city center, and every year during the April to May flowering season they are open for public access.
Kamezuka Inari Shrine
It is said that there is a shrine which dedicated the Spirit turtle, and the shrine was built as a guardian God in the place of the watch stand on this ground by OTA.
Kamezuka
Many fragments of earthenware from the Kofun period were excavated, and it is thought that it is mal. The legendary place of Takeshiba temple, which looks like a Sarashina diary in the Heian period.
Kii Kunasaka
It was called from the place where there was a vast mansion of the Tokugawa family in Kishu (Wakayama Prefecture) through the Edo period on the west side of the slope. Also known as a slope in the "ghost story" of Yakumo Koizumi, it is one of the slopes rich in the wind in Tokyo. From the front of the Akasaka Rikyu, Benkei Hori is a gentle descent to the former Akasaka 1-chome direction, and the South is Minato from the middle of Benkei moat. It is said that the name of the outer moat of Edo Castle is called Benkei Hori, and it was assumed that it was Benkei Ogemon who undertook the Horiwari construction in Kan'ei years. The Benkei bridge in this Benkei moat was built in the Meiji 22, and The imitation treasure was collected from the old Morabashi.
Vaudeville Saka
Because there was a vaudeville named Fukui Tei from the Meiji era to Taishou era on the north side in the middle of the slope, it came to be called Vaudeville slope.
Wild Goose Kisaka
It is said that the slope which became the stairs is generally gangi slope, and it is good because the paving stone was assembled at a right angle, and it writes the rock-ki slope by the insinuization.
Iwaya of small wave houses
A fairy tale writer born in Meiji 3. After graduating from the German Association school, he joined "Inkstone Yusha", the Ozaki Momiji. "Golden Circle" was announced in Meiji 24, and the fairy tale was made as a creation story writer. We also tried to introduce the fairy tales from around the world and received the second medal of Denmark country in Taisho 15. This residence was purchased in Meiji 40, and it lived until it died in 1945 by adding the renovation. After that, it had become a cartoonist in the house, and it changed to the company now. The monument (photo) is located behind the main hall of Zojoji temple.
Coastal Street
It is a street just near Tokyo Bay. In the vicinity of Tokyo Bay, you can enjoy the drypoint standing in the area of the traditional fishing methods.