Shinjuku gyoen park is located 10 minutes walk from Shinjuku station . It was a SAMURAI residence in feudal age, converted as imperial botanical garden 1879. Now it’s open for public. There are 1300 cherry trees, very famous for HANAMI( cherry blossom viewing) .There are 2 Japanese gardens , French […]
‘ROPPONGI HINOKICHO PARK’HINOKICHO park is a Japanese garden in Roppongi, the entertainment district of Tokyo. It was a SAMURAI garden in middle age , converted as a army owned place until WW2.Changed as a city garden in 1963.There is a pond , small waterfall and rest area . You can […]
‘WADAKURA FOUNTAIN PARK’ WADAKURA FOUNTAIN PARK is in between Tokyo station and the imperial palace. It’s built in 1961 as a commemoration of the Emperor Emeritus couple wedding and renovated in 1995 as a commemoration of today’s Emperor couple wedding.It takes 5 minutes walk from Tokyo station through MIYUKI DORI( […]
‘SHIBA PARK next to Tokyo tower’SHIBA park is the city park next to TOKYO TOWER and ZOJOJI temple in the center of Tokyo. It is a precinct of ZOJOJI temple but due to the separation of the politics and religion policy,the surrounding area has converted as a city park 1873 […]
‘SHIBA PARK next to Tokyo tower’SHIBA park is the city park next to Tokyo Tower and ZOJOJI temple in the center of Tokyo. How to speak easy Japanese It is a precinct of ZOJOJI temple but due to the separation of the politics and religion policy,the surrounding area has converted […]
I talk about the COVID-19 in Japan comparing the figures with US and UK. In Japan the COVID-19 cases are decreasing at the moment.The state of emergency will lift the end of February in the west part of Japan, Osaka, Kyoto, Hyogo etc..But Tokyo is still under the state until […]
‘ROKA PARK’ROKA park is the city park west of Tokyo, 20 minutes from SHINJUKU station to ROKA PARK station. ROKA TOKUTOMI is the famous author of early 19s of Japan.This place was his residence. After ROKA passed away, his wife donated the residence and the garden to Tokyo city 1938. […]
TAKEYAMA FUDO temple is a small Buddha temple on top of the Mt.TAKEYAMA 200m high in MIURA peninsula. It’s low hill but it has a 360 degrees view from the top because surrounding area is very flat . This area is only 1 hour train from Tokyo but fairy warm […]
‘SETAGAYA local line ‘ If you come to Tokyo you will surprise that Japanese train connects many cars.SHINKANSEN ( bullet train ) connects 16 cars, JR YAMANOTE line 11 cars , private lines around 10 cars etc. It’s because they transport many passengers as fast as possible.But there are 2-3 […]
‘ARISUGAWA KINEN PARK near SHIBUYA’ARISUGAWA KINEN PARK is the city park 2 stations from SHIBUYA. How to speak easy Japanese It was a SAMURAI residence in feudal age , converted as a imperial family residence 1896. The owner of imperial family donated here to Tokyo city 1934 , then renovated […]
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