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Hama-rikyū Gardens (浜離宮恩賜庭園, Hama-rikyū Onshi Teien) is a metropolitan garden in Chūō ward, Tokyo, Japan. Located at the mouth of the Sumida River, it was opened to the public on April 1, 1946. A landscaped garden of 250,216 m 2 includes Shioiri-no-ike (Tidal Pond), and the garden is surrounded by a seawater moat filled by ...
Imai Yone was born in 1897 in Mie Prefecture of Japan. She traveled to Tokyo for secondary school in 1917, and was baptized in the Christian faith the next year when she was 21. [1] She soon graduated from Tōkyō Joshi Kōtō Shihan Gakkō, or Tokyo Women's Normal School, now known as Ochanomizu University. [2]
Map of Japanese provinces with Iga province highlighted Ukiyo-e print by Hiroshige showing Iga-Ueno Castle. Iga Province (伊賀国, Iga no kuni) was a province of Japan located in what is today part of western Mie Prefecture. [1] Its abbreviated name was Ishū (伊州). Iga is classified as one of the provinces of the Tōkaidō.
The Yayoi 2-chome site (弥生二丁目遺跡, Yayoi 2-chome iseki) is the name for an archaeological site with the trace of a Yayoi period settlement located in the Mukogaoka neighborhood of Yayoi, in Bunkyō, Tokyo in the Kantō region of Japan. It received protection as a National Historic Site in 1976. [1]
Older locals were proud of not having gone far from the neighborhood. The March 1945 bombing of Tokyo wiped out the Shitamachi area and one hundred thousand lives. [17] The development associated to the 1964 Summer Olympics and the Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway further eroded the alley lifestyle. In spite of this, the Shitamachi mindset still ...
Daimon Station (大門駅, Daimon-eki) is a subway station in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Toei Subway.The station is named after the Shiba Daimon or Great Gate of Shiba, located just west of the station on the road leading to the temple of Zōjō-ji.
Soga Station is the northern terminal station for the Uchibō Line and is 3.8 km (2.4 mi) from the northern terminus of the Sotobō Line at Chiba Station.It is 43.0 km (26.7 mi) from the terminus of the Keiyō Line at Tokyo Station.
Nishi-magome Station (西馬込駅, Nishi-magome Eki) is the southern terminal of the Toei Asakusa Line, a subway line operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation. [1] It is located in Ōta, Tokyo, Japan and is the southernmost station of the Tokyo subway network. Its station number is A-01.