Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
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.
Kasumi-Zaka
In the first year of the Meiji period, Kasumi Inari (the current Sakurada shrine) was able to street the Kasumi town, and the path through it was opened in the Meiji 20 's and was called Kasumi-Zaka.
Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
After Taro Okamoto (best known for the Tower of the Sun built for a world's fair) died, the atelier and home he worked out of for almost 50 years was converted into this memorial museum. The incredibly expressive artworks in the garden and the unfinished canvases that decorate the atelier almost make you feel like Okamoto were still alive. This space that overflows with creative energy will allow you to truly experience the essence of art.
Takuku Saka
The slope of the slope was named to be like the low-fuku side in the center of the face because it became gradual once on the way and it went down.
Yen Tong Terasaka
Genroku the name of the temple that moved from around eight years to the south of Sakaue. It is said that there was a betsuin of the same name before that.
Enokizaka
At the beginning of the Edo period, Yukio Asano (Yoshiaga) succeeded in the creation of a population lake around here (so-called Akasaka tameike). The retainer, the long cloud, will leave this achievement to posterity, and it is told that the "Enoki of the Mark" was planted on the bank, and this became the origin of Sakushi and street.
Enokizaka
It is presumed that there was a enoki to show the old road before the Edo period. There is also material to be referred to Nagai slope to climb the direction of Tokyo Tower from Sakashita.
Origin of chanting
In Showa 21, which turned into a scorched earth immediately after the end of the war, the chanting for Munmon edification was encouraging the danites and regaining the peaceful of their hearts in the Jodoshu sect of Zojoji-ji Yamauchi. And, Zojoji Temple was made the birthplace of chanting. Jodoshu Yoshimizu-ryu chanting is the "assistant of the Nembutsu" to facilitate the chanting of the nembutsu. To recite the nembutsu is to be converted to Amida Buddha and leave it all, and the Nembutsu is one of five kinds of lines to be found in the paradise of Amida Buddha "Masayuki shomyo". Five kinds of Masayuki in this five kinds, "Shomyo Masayuki" is a "business of the positive" as an act to the application of Amida Buddha, and the other four species is a line to lead to "Masayuki Shomyo" As for the recitation, the observation, the worship, the Shomyo, and the praise Tannisho, etc. which centered on Amida Buddha. The company is
Nagasaka
It is good because it was a long slope which descends from the top of Azabudai to the Juban. It is not confirmed that it is said that Mr. Nagasaka lived in the vicinity.
Nagai Saka
From the Edo period to the early Meiji period, this name came from a place such as Shiba Nagai Town.