4 days ago1 minThe Supreme Court and Heiwa-no-Gunzo in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.The site, where these landmarks are found, used to be the important base of Japanese army before the Second World War. After the war, this site was taken o...
May 221 minImamiya Ebisu Shinto Shrine in Naniwa-ku, Osaka, is widely known as a god of thriving business.Among many prestigious shrines with a long history in Osaka, this shrine is one of the oldest ones. It is said that this was built in 600, as a guardian of ...
May 191 minJindai-ji in Chofu City is the second oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo.Jindai-ji, built in 733, is the second oldest Buddhist temple in Tokyo, after Senso-ji Temple in Asakusa. This was reduced to ashes, however, two times in 1...
May 161 minThe National Theatre of Japan in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo.This theatre gives the performance of Japanese traditional theatrical arts, and trains the apprentices. In addition, it carries out the research and study ...
May 121 minThe Tokyo Lutheran Center Church plays a central role of the Japan Lutheran Church.Just three years after the end of the Second World War, in 1948, the American Lutheran Church dispatched 36 missionaries to Japan. This missionary work form...
May 51 minThe Classic House at Akasaka Prince was the former mansion of the Crown Prince of Korean Empire.Going with the annexation of Korean Peninsula by Japan in 1910, the then Imperial Family of Korean Empire became to be treated almost same as Japanese Imperi...
May 21 minThe Nihonbashi store building of Takashimaya department store in Tokyo.Born as a secondhand clothes store in Kyoto in 1829, Takashimaya department store advanced into Osaka in 1898. Then it found its way into Tokyo just two ye...
Apr 301 minThe buildings along the Imperial Palace used to be restricted to the maximum height of 31 meters.Around the inner moat of the Imperial Palace, 5 kilometers in circumference , in the very heart of Tokyo, many high-rise buildings are standing. Along the ...
Apr 211 minCatholic Sekiguchi Cathedral, also known as St. Mary's Cathedral,Tokyo, in Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.There are three archdioceses in Japan, they are Tokyo, Osaka and Nagasaki. The novel design building in the picture is Catholic Sekiguchi Cathedral, which h...
Apr 201 minGinza in Tokyo as of a little before noon, on Sunday April 19th, 2020.The total number of the corona virus infected people in Tokyo reached 3,000 on April 19th, 2020. The Government issued a state-of-emergency declaration on...
Apr 181 minEnpukuji Buddhist temple in Kagurazaka, Tokyo, was founded by a well-known warlord, Kato Kiyomasa.As Kato Kiyomasa devoted himself to the Nichren sect of Buddhism, this temple which was built in 1856 belongs to the Nichiren sect. The Tokugawa Shogun fami...
Apr 151 minFormer Iseya pawnshop in Kikuzaka, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo.Kikuzaka literally means a slope in a field of chrysanthemum flowers. Kikuzaka area actually was carpeted with chrysanthemum flowers in the 18th century. ...
Apr 131 minOtani-Honbyo in Kyoto is the Graveyard of Shinran, the founder of Jodo-Shinshu Sect of Buddhism.Being adjacent to Gozo-zaka slope, one of the approaches to Kiyomizu-dera Temple, Otani-Honbyo is lying with solemnity. Shinran passed away in 1263 and was...
Apr 51 minAn equestrian statue of Prince Komatsunomiya Akihito, in Ueno Park, was built in 1912.Prince Komatsunomiya Akihito made a great contribution to the modernization of Japan. After the samurai government ruled by Tokugawa Shogun's Family, the mo...
Apr 21 minCherry blossoms are the herald of spring.Cherry blossoms are annually in full bloom from the end of March to the beginning of April in Tokyo though, this year is irregularly earlier than usual by tw...
Mar 311 minThe National Museum of Western Art in Ueno, Tokyo.The main building of this museum is a component of World Heritage 'The Architectural Work of Le Corbusier, an Outstanding Contribution to the Modern Movement...
Mar 271 minFormer 'Museum/Zoo Station' of Keisei Electric Railway Inc. in Ueno, Tokyo.This train station was opened in 1933, and was abolished in 2004. Being constructed between Nippori Station and Ueno Station of Keisei Electric Railway Inc...
Mar 201 minThe bell of Kanzeon-ji Buddhist Temple in Dazaifu City is the oldest one in Japan.Kanzeon-ji Temple in Dazaifu City, Fukuoka Prefecture, is one of the three prestigious Buddhist temples in Japan as these were equipped with *Kaidan-in. *K...
Mar 191 minKonpon-chudo Main Hall of Kanei-ji Buddhist Temple in Ueno, Tokyo.Kanei-ji Temple, together with Zojo-ji Temple in Shiba, is the Tokugawa Shogun's family temple. Konpon-chudo Main Hall was built in 1698, long after the fo...
Mar 141 minSogakudo of the Tokyo Music School is Japan's oldest concert hall in Western Style.This old concert hall was built in 1890 for the practical use of the students of then Tokyo National Music School, present-day Tokyo University of the Arts. ...