Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
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.
Fukuzawa and Kondo, both of them
Fukuzawa Yukichi's Cram school was in the new have been zeni of Shiba for four years before moving from Tsukiji Gunshu to Mita's location in the year of Keio 4 (1868).
Fukuyoshisaka
Between the 15th and 17th of Akasaka, Minato-ku, it is a slope that rises from the north to the south, and is the stone steps between the building where the restaurant is entered. There is no sign of the slope, but a metal plate called "about the renovation work of Fukuyoshisaka stone steps" which was established by the Akasaka Fukuyoshi Town Council and Fukuyoshisaka Renovation Work Committee is set up at the top of the hill, indicating that this stone steps are "Fukuyoshisaka". It is said that this name came from the old street that was called Akasaka Fukukichi town.
The tomb
Kuniji was born in the Musashi country in 13 years of astronomy and became the chief priest of Zojoji Temple in Tensho 12 years. It is said that the national master's issue was conferred by the mediation of Tokugawa Ieyasu in 15 years, and it is called the Keicho.
Pier Park (Monument to the Antarctic Expedition)
In 1910, the first Antarctic expedition Japan the Memorial monument that departed from Shibaura stands. The boat's playground equipment, which is an image of the Nanhiyo Maru, is 25m long and 12m tall. The Fountain Pond is made to resemble Antarctica, and penguins are greeted from Antarctica in front of you when you see it from the ship. In addition, a juvenile baseball field is created after the birth of professional baseball. There is a bleachers in the field of artificial turf, and the illumination of night lighting is attached.
Shinagawa Season Terrace
Shinagawa Season Terrace is a success of applying 3D urban planning to a cooperative public and private large-scale development between the Tokyo Metropolis and four private companies: NTT Urban Development Corporation, Taisei Corporation, Hulic Co, and Tokyo City Development Co. The lower floors abound in a variety of shops and restaurants, as well as distributed conference halls, and adjoining the building is 3.5 hectares of open green space where the greenery and waterfront scenery changes from season to season. By creating a landscape of harmonious abundance while bringing all the advantages of a center for business to a place to foster community, it is contributing greatly to the regional community.
Hikawa Shrine (Shirokane)
It is reported that it was erected as a total guardian of the Shiroho era in the Shirogane village. Enshrined is the life of Susa man (the only thing that you can do) is Princess Inada (the only thing that you can do). The shrine was destroyed by the Great Fire of Meiwa (1772) in the mid-Edo period and rebuilt in the late Edo era. However, the shrine also suffered an air raid in 1945 and completed the present shrine in 1958. Passing through the Torii, on the left side of the main shrine is a god of Fortune and fortune "Kenbu shrine", and the right is "Inari shrine" as the god of the shelter and the Guardian. There is a pretty fox statue of the size of a kitten or a puppy around the Inari shrine.
Ice Kawasaka
It is a slope in front of the Hikawa shrine which was built by the life of the eighth Shogun Tokugawa Yoshisect.
Hikawa Park
This park is an artificial ground with a parking lot in the basement. It was re-established in 1999. In the park, the playground, the Rose Garden, and the fountain were reborn as comfortable parks for everyone to use and feel at ease. The Rose garden blooms beautiful flowers every year. (Peak season is mid-May and mid-October)
The birthplace of Ozaki Momiji
Famous for the novel, such as "Golden Demon", the autumnal leaves were born on December 16, Keio 3, at Shiba-Monzen 2-chome (currently 2-7-4). Since I was 14 years old, I have been working on literary activities since early on, such as posting on the edge of Mt. Saneyama Temple. At the age of 17, he gathered his companions and formed the first literary group, "Inkstone Yusha", and published the "I-raku-many (crap) Bunko" of the organization paper. In the summer of 19, he passed the autumnal leaves from the red Hayama in Zojoji Temple, and died at the age of 36 in Meiji 36. There is a tomb in Aoyama cemetery.
Iikura Park
It is a park consisting of a multipurpose square and playground equipment adjacent to the Ikura Nursery school. Every day, children's voices are overflowing with fun, and it is popular as a place where salaried workers and people near resting. The Playground Equipment Plaza was renewed in 2007. Surrounded by bamboo fences around the square, dogs are forbidden to walk, and children are considered safe and hygienic. You can run around with peace of mind even with small children by laying lawns on the square and setting up colorful large playground equipment and a fluffy dome. In addition, we installed a furnace bench and a manhole toilet for disasters, and also provided functions as an emergency evacuation site for disasters.
Sasayama Memorial Museum
The collection of teaware centers of Kazuyoshi Sasayama, founder of Ebara Manufacturing Co., Ltd., is exhibited. It used to be the Shimadzu family's residence, and there are also facilities serving matcha tea, conveying the atmosphere of a samurai residence. It houses about 1500 works, including ceramics, books and paintings, including national treasures and heavy sentences. In spring, you can enjoy the cherry blossoms in the garden. Note: The museum will be closed for a long period of time due to facility renovationfrom from March 18, 2019.