Tokyo walking tour around Imperial Palace and Tokyo Station

The Marunouchi Building was built in 1923. It was damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake of the same year and completed again in 1925. In 1995, Mitsubishi Estate announced that it would rebuild the Marunouchi Building due to its low earthquake resistance. The Architectural Institute of Japan's request for the building's preservation was not approved, and the building was demolished in 1999, with a new 36-story second-generation Marunouchi Building completed in 2002.

A shopping mall with a variety of stores. On the rooftop is a garden called "KITTE Garden" where you can enjoy a panoramic view of the city of Tokyo. In addition, there is a space on the 4th floor where a postal chock from those days is reproduced. Visitors can enjoy the atmosphere of old Japan in the city. A commemorative photo will be taken there.

Mitsubishi Ichigokan was designed by Josiah Conder, an architectural advisor to the Meiji government (who also designed the Rokumeikan, Nicolai Hall, and Furukawa Residence), and was built in 1894. The courtyard is a place of relaxation and recreation. The courtyard is a place of relaxation and recreation.

It is a very beautiful building. It is said to be a representative building that contributed to the development of modern Western-style architecture in Japan. It was the first building from the Showa period to be designated as a National Important Cultural Property.

The elegant stone and iron bridge seen in front of the Imperial Palace now represents a double bridge, but in the Edo period it was a wooden bridge and was called Nishimaru Otemon-bashi and Nishimaru Shimonobashi.

The west gate of Edo Castle. It is designated as an Important Cultural Property along with TAYASUMON and SHIMIZU-MON. (1961) The present gate, called Outer Sakuradamon, was built around 1663.