Early in the morning, after having our breakfast from the Toyoko Inn ,w e started our journey to the Imperial Palace. We took a one day pass or the Tokyo city travel and hired the train to Tokyo station.
We walked towards the Imperial palace which can be accessed by a 5 minute walk from the station according to the information that we have collected.
We crossed a park while walking to the palace which looks so beautiful with trees surrounded with flowered bushes and fountains. In 7 minutes we reached the east gardens of the Imperial palace.
The current Imperial Palace is located on the former site of Edo Castle, a large park area surrounded stone walls. It is the residence of Japan's Imperial Family. The palace buildings and inner gardens are not open to the public. Only on January 2 (New year) and December 23 (Emperor's Birthday), visitors are able to enter the inner palace grounds and see the members of the Imperial Family, who make several public appearances on a balcony.The Imperial Palace East Gardens are open to the public.There are two bridges that form an entrance to the inner palace grounds called the Nijubashi.
The Imperial Palace East garden is open to the public. They are the former site of Edo Castle's innermost circles of defense, the honmaru ("main circle") and ninomaru ("secondary circle").
None of the main buildings remain today, but the moats, walls, entrance gates and several guardhouses still exist. A wide lawn and the remaining foundation of the former castle tower can be found on top of the hill, where the castle's innermost buildings once stood.
In place of the former buildings in the secondary circle of defense
(ninomaru) at the foot of the hill, a nice Japanese style garden has
been created.
We walked up to the foundation of the former castle tower. From there we could see the palace building.
Then we walked through the garden infront of it, there were so many cherry trees with full of flowers.
We left the palace garden area after walking around there for an hour.
We walked towards the Imperial palace which can be accessed by a 5 minute walk from the station according to the information that we have collected.
We crossed a park while walking to the palace which looks so beautiful with trees surrounded with flowered bushes and fountains. In 7 minutes we reached the east gardens of the Imperial palace.
The current Imperial Palace is located on the former site of Edo Castle, a large park area surrounded stone walls. It is the residence of Japan's Imperial Family. The palace buildings and inner gardens are not open to the public. Only on January 2 (New year) and December 23 (Emperor's Birthday), visitors are able to enter the inner palace grounds and see the members of the Imperial Family, who make several public appearances on a balcony.The Imperial Palace East Gardens are open to the public.There are two bridges that form an entrance to the inner palace grounds called the Nijubashi.
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| Nijubashi. |
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| Imperial palace. |
None of the main buildings remain today, but the moats, walls, entrance gates and several guardhouses still exist. A wide lawn and the remaining foundation of the former castle tower can be found on top of the hill, where the castle's innermost buildings once stood.
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| The foundation of the former castle tower. |
We walked up to the foundation of the former castle tower. From there we could see the palace building.
Then we walked through the garden infront of it, there were so many cherry trees with full of flowers.
We left the palace garden area after walking around there for an hour.
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