Sehenswürdigkeiten in Japan

Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

The Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum, Tokyo (三菱一号館美術館, Mitsubishi Ichigōkan Bijutsukan) is an art museum in Tokyo's Marunouchi district.The building is a faithful recreation of the original Mitsubishi Ichigokan which stood on the same location.

The Peninsula Tokyo

The Peninsula Tokyo is a 24-story luxury skyscraper hotel located in Yurakucho, Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The hotel is operated by The Peninsula Hotel Group, and is the only Peninsula branded Hotel in Japan. It is owned by Hong Kong and Shanghai Hotels.

Tokyo Takarazuka Building

Aoikan

The Aoikan (葵館) was a movie theater in the Tameike section of Akasaka in Tokyo, Japan. It existed from the mid–1910s as a high-class foreign film theater, featuring benshi such as Musei Tokugawa.After the Great Kanto earthquake, it re-opened in October 1924 with a new, modern design created by…

Wadakura Bridge

The Wadakura Bridge is a bridge in Chiyoda, Tokyo.Media related to Wadakura-bashi at Wikimedia Commons

Prudential Tower

The Prudential Tower (プルデンシャルタワー) is a skyscraper located in Nagatachō, Tokyo, Japan. It contains offices, residences, and shops, with 38 floors above ground and a total floor area of 76,634 square meters.

Museum of the Imperial Collections

The Museum of the Imperial Collections Sannomaru-Shōzōkan (三の丸尚蔵館) is located on the grounds of the East Garden of Tokyo Imperial Palace. It showcases a changing exhibition of a part of the imperial household treasures.

Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery

Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery (千鳥ケ淵戦没者墓苑, Chidorigafuchi Senbotsusha Boen) is a national Japanese cemetery and memorial for 352,297 unidentified war dead of the Second World War, located near the inner moat of the Imperial Palace and Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, Japan.

Ōoku

The Ōoku (大奥, "great interior") refers to the women's quarters of Edo Castle, the section where the women connected to the reigning shōgun resided.

Kasumigaseki Common Gate

The Kasumigaseki Common Gate (霞が関コモンゲート, Kasumigaseki Komon Geito) is twin tower buildings located in Kasumigaseki, Chiyoda, Tokyo. The buildings consist of East Tower and West Tower.

Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall

The Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall (Japanese: 日比谷野外音楽堂, Hepburn: Hibiya Yagai Ongakudō) is an outdoor theater in Tokyo, Japan's Hibiya Park.

Hibiya Park

Hibiya Park (日比谷公園 Hibiya Kōen) is a park in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan. It covers an area of 161,636.66 m2 (40 acres) between the east gardens of the Imperial Palace to the north, the Shinbashi district to the southeast and the Kasumigaseki government district to the west.The land was oc…

Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery

Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery (聖徳記念絵画館, Seitoku Kinen Kaigakan) is a gallery commemorating the "imperial virtues" of Japan's Meiji Emperor, installed on his funeral site in the Gaien or outer precinct of Meiji Shrine in Tōkyō.

Kokyo Gaien National Garden

Kokyo Gaien National Garden (or Kōkyogaien) is a national park (garden and park) in Chiyoda, Tokyo. It is located south of Tokyo Imperial Palace.Kokyo Gaien National Garden has an area of about 450,0002.

Kanda Shrine

Kanda Shrine (神田明神, Kanda-myōjin, officially 神田神社 Kanda-jinja), is a Shinto shrine located in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The shrine dates back 1,270 years, but the current structure was rebuilt several times due to fire and earthquakes.

Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens

The Koishikawa Kōrakuen (小石川後楽園) is a large urban park in the Koishikawa neighborhood of Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. The Japanese garden dates from the early Edo period.

Kyu Shiba Rikyu Garden

The Kyū Shiba Rikyū Garden (旧芝離宮恩賜庭園), also known as Kyū Shiba Rikyū Onshi Teien ("Former Shiba Villa Imperial Gift Gardens") is a public garden and former imperial garden in Minato ward, Tokyo, Japan.

Yushima Seidō

Yushima Seidō (湯島聖堂, lit. 'Yushima Sacred Hall'), is a Confucian temple (聖堂) in Yushima, Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. It was established in end of the 17th century during the Genroku era of the Edo period.

Zojo-ji Kaikan Cafeteria

San'en-zan Zōjō-ji (三縁山増上寺) is a Jōdo-shū Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan. It is the main temple of the Jōdo-shū ("Pure Land") Chinzei sect of Buddhism in the Kantō region,.Zōjō-ji is notable for its relationship with the Tokugawa clan, the rulers of Japan during the Edo period…

Tokiwabashi

The Tokiwabridge (常盤橋) is a bridge over the Nihonbashi River between Ōtemachi, Chiyoda, Tokyo and Nihonbashi Motoishi-chō, Chūō, Tokyo.

The Kudan

The Residence of the Philippine Ambassador to Tokyo, informally known as the Kudan (九段), is the official residence of the Philippine ambassador to Japan. It is located in 1-1-1 Fujimi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan.

Old Shimbashi Station

Shiodome Freight Terminal (汐留駅, Shiodome-eki) was a freight terminal of the Japanese National Railways (JNR) in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Akasaka Palace

Akasaka Palace (赤坂離宮, Akasaka Rikyū), or the State Guest House (迎賓館, Geihinkan), is one of the two state guest houses of the Government of Japan.

Tokyo Station Yaesu Entrance (GranRoof)

Tokyo Station (Japanese: 東京駅, Japanese pronunciation: [to̞ːkʲo̞ːe̞kʲi]) is a railway station in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan. The original station is located in Chiyoda's Marunouchi business district near the Imperial Palace grounds.

Musée Tomo

Musée Tomo is a museum for contemporary Japanese ceramic art, located at 4-1-35 Toranomon, Minato, Tokyo, Japan, featuring the collection of Tomo Kikuchi.Musée Tomo website (English) e-Yakimono article Lonely Planet description Where In Tokyo description

Okura Museum of Art (Okura Shukokan)

Okura Museum of Art (大倉集古館, Ōkura Shūkokan) is a museum in Tokyo, Japan.The museum opened in Toranomon, Tokyo in 1917 to house the collection of pre-modern Japanese and East-Asian Art amassed since the Meiji Restoration by industrialist Ōkura Kihachirō.

DN Tower 21

DN Tower 21 is an office building in Tokyo, Japan. It includes the former Dai-Ichi Seimei Building, in which Douglas MacArthur had his headquarters during the occupation of Japan following World War II. The Government of Tokyo designated DN Tower 21 as a historical building in 2004.

Meiji Seimei Kan

Meiji Seimei Kan (明治生命館) is a building in Marunouchi, Tokyo, Japan.It was designed by Shinichiro Okada and completed in March 1934.

Edo Castle

Edo Castle (江戸城, Edo-jō), also known as Chiyoda Castle (千代田城, Chiyoda-jō), is a flatland castle that was built in 1457 by Ōta Dōkan. It is today part of the Tokyo Imperial Palace and is in Chiyoda, Tokyo (then known as Edo), Toshima District, Musashi Province.

Site of MOJ Main Building

The Old Ministry of Justice Building (法務省旧本館), also known as the Red-Brick Building (赤れんが棟), is an historical building in the Kasumigaseki district of Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.

Sakurada gate

Sakurada Gate (桜田門, sakurada-mon), is a gate at Tokyo Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, Japan. It was the location of the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860.Opposite the gate of Sakurada Gate is the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which shares "Sakurada Gate" as a metonym (akin to…

Three Palace Sanctuaries

The Three Palace Sanctuaries (宮中三殿, Kyūchū sanden) are a group of structures in the precincts of the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Japan. They are used in imperial religious ceremonies, including weddings and enthronements.The three sanctuaries are: