The Edo Castle, formerly the Tokugawa Family’s residence, became the Imperial Palace as the Emperor moved to Tokyo from the Kyoto Imperial Palace after the Meiji Restoration. The main residence of the Emperor open only twice a year such as beginning of each year. We visit the East Garden of the Imperial Palace. We see two main spots such as the main tower of the former Edo castle and the Ninomaru Garden. Many kinds of seasonal flowers and plants are planted. You can enjoy the scenery all year around. It's very a beautiful Japanese garden.

Nijyubashi bridge (Front entrance of Imperial palace):

Nijyubashi bridge (Front entrance of Imperial palace) means “double bridge”. There is a stone bridge in front and an iron bridge behind. The silhouettes of the arches are reflected in the water of the moat that remind us as if it is a pair of glasses.

To see around the area where Thunder gate ,Nakamise survenir shop street, two stort treasure house gate, and Asakusa shrine. Sensoji temple was founded in 628 and the oldest temple in Tokyo. Around 30million people come to pray every year.

Kaminari-mon or Thunder Gate is the best symbol of Asakusa. There is a famous huge red lantern in the center of Kaminari-mon.

The souvenir shops of Nakamise-street are lined up from Kaminari-mon to Hozo-mon for around 205 meters. The number of the shops is 89 and they are selling souvenirs such as Kaminari okoshi, Ningyo-yaki, folding fans, beckoning cats, lanterns and Japanese Kimonos including light cotton Kimono called “Yukata”.

Meiji Shrine is dedicated to the defied sprits of Emperor Meiji and his consort Empress Shoken.

It was founded in 1920 after they passed away.

After destroyed by fire in World War 2 air raids, the Shrine buildings were renovated on 1958.

Before you enter into this Shrine, you will find a gate called a Torii that separate the ordinary world from the sacred world.

While passing through the Shrine to main hall, you will find an oasis of woodland.

This is an artificial oasis. This Shrine is surrounded by evergreen woodland that covers 700,000square meters.

In the beginning 100,000 trees were donated by people all over Japan. There are now 170,000 trees inside the shrine compound. This was created as the first eternal forest in Japan using most advanced tree planting techniques.