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Edo period city gate location Takanawa Great Wooden Gate site: 2, 6: 696: Grave of Satō Issai 佐藤一斎墓 Satō Issai no haka: Minato: Edo period Confucian scholar; located at Jinko-ji (深廣寺) Grave of Satō Issai
Tokyo is near the boundary of three plates, making it an extremely active region for smaller quakes and slippage which frequently affect the urban area with swaying as if in a boat, although epicenters within mainland Tokyo (excluding Tokyo's 2,000 km (1,243 mi)–long island jurisdiction) are quite rare. It is not uncommon in the metro area to ...
Universities and colleges in Tokyo (65 C, 172 P) Pages in category "Tourist attractions in Tokyo" The following 50 pages are in this category, out of 50 total.
Setagaya has the largest population and second-largest area (after Ōta) of Tokyo's special wards. As of July 1, 2023, the ward has an estimated population of 940,071, and a population density of 16,194 persons per km² with the total area of 58.06 km².
In 1590, before shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo Castle, the area now known as Marunouchi was an inlet of Tokyo Bay and had the name Hibiya. With the expansion of the castle, this inlet was filled, beginning in 1592. A new outer moat was constructed, and the earlier moat became the inner moat. The area took the name Okuruwauchi ("within the ...
In February, Google launched Immersive View for Google Maps, a new, AI-powered experience that lets you virtually stroll through a place in 3D, seeing as it changes over different times and ...
Nihonbashi was a ward of Tokyo City. In 1947, when the 35 wards of Tokyo were reorganized into 23, it was merged with Kyōbashi to form the modern Chuo ward. Shortly before the 1964 Summer Olympics , an expressway was built over the Nihonbashi bridge, obscuring the classic view of Mount Fuji from the bridge. [ 5 ]
The Tokyo National Museum (東京国立博物館, Tōkyō Kokuritsu Hakubutsukan) or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums [ a ] operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage [ ja ] , is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.