Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
Naniwaya Sohonten
They say that Naniwaya Sohonten was the first shop in Japan to think up the taiyaki (a fish-shaped pancake filled with bean jam). The shop is also famous for being the model for the hit song, "Swim! Mr. Taiyaki." The shop's taiyaki, filled to its tail with lightly seasoned an, is very popular. The line of people waiting for the freshly-baked items never ends anytime soon. This new shop opened in 2007. The taiyaki shop itself is on the first floor. The food-and-drink space on the second floor has about 20 seats and a menu for meals and desserts.
Lingnanzaka
At the beginning of the Edo period, the East Zen Temple of Takanawa was here as the Ling Nan-an, and it took the name of the founder Ling Minami Osho, but one day the ridge became a spirit.
Ryuzawa-ji Temple (Azabu ward office Ruins)
In the current port area, Akasaka-ku, Azabu-gu and Shiba-gu were established in the district by the municipal organization of the municipality on July 22, Meiji 11. The range of Azabu-ku is mainly present in Azabu and Roppongi. In Ryuzawa-ji temple, the second district of December, Meiji 6, was placed in the ward office of 12 small, but it was decided to open the office of the Azabu Ward as a ward office on November 4, Meiji 11. The first mayor was appointed by Toshimitsuru Maeda. The number of units at the time of the opening was 7813 units and the population was 26000. On March 15, 1947, the Akasaka-ku, Azabu-ku and Shiba-ku were integrated, and the current Minato-ku was born.
Thunder Yama Children's Park
Thunder Yama Children's Park is a hidden cherry blossom attraction. Originally, there was a Thunder shrine which dedicated the Thunder, and it was the origin of the Thunder Mountain. The trees of the cherry tree grow large branches in the park, and when the cherry Tree row which was the approach of the shrine is full bloom, the Arch of cherry blossoms is shaped. In the precincts of Gwanglin-ji temple, the cherry blossoms are spread out every year and the flowers are beautiful. This day was blessed with the weather, and the cherry blossoms in the blue sky were shining.
An equestrian statue of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito.
The bronze statue of Prince Arisugawa Taruhito stands on the field on top of a hill in the Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park in Minami-Azabu. This was where the Asano family's villa used to stand and it became the residence of Minonokami Nambu, who was the feudal lord of the Moroka Domain. In 1896, this land became the property of the Arisugawa-no-miya. Prince Taruhito was going to spend his last years here, but he passed away before he could live here. The equestrian statue of Prince Taruhito was located in the old Imperial Japanese Army General Staff Office in 1903, but as the park had close ties with the Prince, the statue was moved to there in 1962.
Arisugawa Palace Memorial Park
It is a Japan garden with a very good nature in the place where there was the shimoyashiki of the Asano family famous for Chushingura. It became the shimoyashiki of the Morioka clan Southern House in the Edo period, and went through the site of the Arisugawa Miyagai and Takamatsu House, and was lift down as a park site in Tokyo City at that time in 1934. More than 100 sakura trees are planted in the park, and all 11 types of Someiyoshino and Satcherry are introduced to the Guide board next to the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library, "Sakura of Arisugawa Omiya Memorial Park". In the park, you can enjoy seasonal flowers such as dogwood and hydrangea, as well as plum blossoms and flower Kiyotaka Shobuda.
Arisho-in Mausoleum 2 Tenmon gate
In Zojoji Temple, Arisho-in Mausoleum 2 Tenten Gate is an important cultural property. There is a god on the left and right of the gate. It is a wide point to defend the west to the right to defend the north to the left. Buddhist Guardian God.
Ghost Hill
The temple is lined up on both sides of the hill, and because it is a lonely hill, this name seems to have attached, and there is a theory of Arisaka slope, too. There are Nagamatsu-ji temple with the tomb of Hagou Sorai, Tamhouji temple with a makeup Jizo, and a temple with a Morning Glory mound. There are about seven ghost slopes in Tokyo.
Yakuken-Zaka
The middle is named because the high form on both sides of the recess resembles the drug lab which breaks the medicine. It was called the Emon Hill by the name of nearby residents.
Yakuen-Zaka
There was a medicinal garden of the shogunate in the west of Sakaue in the early Edo period (the predecessor of the herb cultivation plant and the Koishikawa Botanical Garden). It is called the official slope and the officer slope.
Shimosaka
On the north side, there is a mansion of the daimyo Kinoshita family, and it is a slope which came to be called because it faced the gate.
Public art using wooden stairs
There is a public art exhibition on the stairs of the tree in the Sakashita Elementary school, including "Nuno" by Mr. Takebu Igarashi.
Mori Garden
The site of Roppongi Hills, the newest city in Tokyo, was the house of Mori-Kai Mamoru until the end of Edo. With a large area of 4300 square meters, the pond is centered on a waterfall, mountain stream, river babble, cherry blossoms, ginkgo trees, cherry blossoms in the spring, autumnal leaves in autumn, and seasonal taste. A stroll through the Japan garden is a special viewing. While you are in the city center, you can stroll through the garden Japan a full-fledged excursion ceremony. Christmas Illumination (December)
Meiji-Zaka
It is told that it was called Meiji-Zaka from the first year of the Taisho era although it was a road which existed from old times.
Meiji Gakuin University
Founded in October, Meiji 19. Dr. Hebon, who became the first president, was the inventor of the Roman alphabet. At a cram school in Yokohama, I was teaching English to students, such as Masjiro Omura and Kiyoshi Takahashi. Dr. wrote the first Japanese-English dictionary Japan, but the copyright transfer fee was about 10,000 yen, and the Hebon Pavilion that the tower which hit the fifth floor in the center of the wooden four stories building was erected. The Hebon Museum was burnt down on September 21, Meiji 44, but the same day, Dr. Hebon, who lived in the United States, died. The tree of the memorial tree Kusunoki, which was planted in Meiji 24 by Shimazaki Fujimura and was carved with the initials in the boyhood, was cut down because it withered in 1968, and the San Dam Pavilion that Shimazaki Fujimura learnt was lost, too, but the Inbury Pavilion (National Important Cultural Property), Memorial Hall (GU) , the Warlis design Chapel (GU), the school song of the Showa 12-Ken Shimazaki-Fujimura, and the monument of his autograph in existence.
Name Mitsusaka
It is said that the name of the famous light was able to be found in Firefly. It was read and it wrote, and it was written na Mitsusaka. The name Mitsusaka of the Meiji period remains in the east side.
Azabu Playground
The "Motoazabu 2-chome" bus stop immediately has a "Azabu playground", which has a softball baseball field and four tennis courts.
Azabu-Dori Street
The street continues from Higashi-Azabu 1-chome to 2-chome. The shop of Higashi-Azabu Shopping Association is lined up.
This ice Kawasaka
On the east side of the slope, this Hikawa Myojin became the name of the hill.
Hotta, Saka
In the Edo period, it was a slope to climb towards the Shimoyashiki house of daimyo.
Kitasato Institute Hospital
The first of its kind in Japan, the Institute of Infectious Diseases was formed in October on the 25th year of the Meiji era in a section of Yukichi Fukuzawa's residence in Shiba Koen. Yukichi Fukuzawa was worried "the world's Kitasato" and his talent would be hidden away in Japan, so he offered it to Shibasaburo Kitasato. Afterwards, it was nationalized and moved to Shirokanedai, However, when Minister Okuma transferred control of it from the Ministry of Home Affairs to the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, Kitasato (as head of the institute) and staff members resigned in protest. In November of the third year of the Taisho era, the Kitasato Institute that Kitasato was using private funds to establish, was complete. It was opened on December 11, on Robert Koch's birthday.
Hojo-Zaka
This name was attached to the south side near the Sakashita because there was a mansion of the daimyo Hojo House.
Broadcast Monument
This is the place where Japan's first broadcast radio waves were emitted on March 22, 1914. The Tokyo Broadcasting Station used the library of the Tokyo Higher Institute of Technology, which was located here at the time, as a temporary broadcasting station. In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the start of broadcasting, a "Broadcasting Monument" was erected at the birthplace of broadcasting.
Eccentric Museum ruins
It has lived for 25 years until the writer Nagai Kakaze burns in the air raids from 1921 to 1945. He was named a eccentric museum by western a two-story wooden house painted in the name of a crotchety oddball. I nostalgic for the Edo period and left a work such as "Sumida River" and "Biyori Geta". When he was 31 years old, he became a professor at Keio University in the recommendation of Mori Ogai, and presided over the "Mita literature". It was burnt down in the Tokyo large air raid on March 10, 1945.
a Buddhist foot stone
The Buddhist foot stone is a stone graven the shape of the back of the Buddha's foot. In the India, before the statues were carved, Buddha's symbolism was symbolically represented by Buddhist stones and lime trees, and people worshiped them as Buddhas. This Buddhist foot stone is the one that was made in May, Meiji 14 by the request of the person in charge of the 70th Fukuda line Makoto, Yamauchi Taisei Matsuto, and the Buddhist statues, the sutra, and the origin etc. are carved on the side.