Sightseeing
Amazing tourist attractions that are a must-see when visiting Minato Ward.
Kamezuka Park
As the name "Kamezuka" ("turtle tomb") suggests, there are turtle mound stones throughout the park. It also has turtle shaped spring play equipment, name boards and so on. Stairs were added to sloped areas in 2007, making it possible to come and go from Mita 3-chome and 4-chome by going through the park. The park also preserves the Kanto dandelions that have become rare in the city center, and every year during the April to May flowering season they are open for public access.
Kamezuka Inari Shrine
It is said that there is a shrine which dedicated the Spirit turtle, and the shrine was built as a guardian God in the place of the watch stand on this ground by OTA.
Kamezuka
Many fragments of earthenware from the Kofun period were excavated, and it is thought that it is mal. The legendary place of Takeshiba temple, which looks like a Sarashina diary in the Heian period.
Kii Kunasaka
It was called from the place where there was a vast mansion of the Tokugawa family in Kishu (Wakayama Prefecture) through the Edo period on the west side of the slope. Also known as a slope in the "ghost story" of Yakumo Koizumi, it is one of the slopes rich in the wind in Tokyo. From the front of the Akasaka Rikyu, Benkei Hori is a gentle descent to the former Akasaka 1-chome direction, and the South is Minato from the middle of Benkei moat. It is said that the name of the outer moat of Edo Castle is called Benkei Hori, and it was assumed that it was Benkei Ogemon who undertook the Horiwari construction in Kan'ei years. The Benkei bridge in this Benkei moat was built in the Meiji 22, and The imitation treasure was collected from the old Morabashi.
Vaudeville Saka
Because there was a vaudeville named Fukui Tei from the Meiji era to Taishou era on the north side in the middle of the slope, it came to be called Vaudeville slope.
Wild Goose Kisaka
It is said that the slope which became the stairs is generally gangi slope, and it is good because the paving stone was assembled at a right angle, and it writes the rock-ki slope by the insinuization.
Iwaya of small wave houses
A fairy tale writer born in Meiji 3. After graduating from the German Association school, he joined "Inkstone Yusha", the Ozaki Momiji. "Golden Circle" was announced in Meiji 24, and the fairy tale was made as a creation story writer. We also tried to introduce the fairy tales from around the world and received the second medal of Denmark country in Taisho 15. This residence was purchased in Meiji 40, and it lived until it died in 1945 by adding the renovation. After that, it had become a cartoonist in the house, and it changed to the company now. The monument (photo) is located behind the main hall of Zojoji temple.
Coastal Street
It is a street just near Tokyo Bay. In the vicinity of Tokyo Bay, you can enjoy the drypoint standing in the area of the traditional fishing methods.
Kasumi-Zaka
In the first year of the Meiji period, Kasumi Inari (the current Sakurada shrine) was able to street the Kasumi town, and the path through it was opened in the Meiji 20 's and was called Kasumi-Zaka.
Taro Okamoto Memorial Museum
After Taro Okamoto (best known for the Tower of the Sun built for a world's fair) died, the atelier and home he worked out of for almost 50 years was converted into this memorial museum. The incredibly expressive artworks in the garden and the unfinished canvases that decorate the atelier almost make you feel like Okamoto were still alive. This space that overflows with creative energy will allow you to truly experience the essence of art.
Takuku Saka
The slope of the slope was named to be like the low-fuku side in the center of the face because it became gradual once on the way and it went down.
Yen Tong Terasaka
Genroku the name of the temple that moved from around eight years to the south of Sakaue. It is said that there was a betsuin of the same name before that.
Enokizaka
At the beginning of the Edo period, Yukio Asano (Yoshiaga) succeeded in the creation of a population lake around here (so-called Akasaka tameike). The retainer, the long cloud, will leave this achievement to posterity, and it is told that the "Enoki of the Mark" was planted on the bank, and this became the origin of Sakushi and street.
Enokizaka
It is presumed that there was a enoki to show the old road before the Edo period. There is also material to be referred to Nagai slope to climb the direction of Tokyo Tower from Sakashita.
Origin of chanting
In Showa 21, which turned into a scorched earth immediately after the end of the war, the chanting for Munmon edification was encouraging the danites and regaining the peaceful of their hearts in the Jodoshu sect of Zojoji-ji Yamauchi. And, Zojoji Temple was made the birthplace of chanting. Jodoshu Yoshimizu-ryu chanting is the "assistant of the Nembutsu" to facilitate the chanting of the nembutsu. To recite the nembutsu is to be converted to Amida Buddha and leave it all, and the Nembutsu is one of five kinds of lines to be found in the paradise of Amida Buddha "Masayuki shomyo". Five kinds of Masayuki in this five kinds, "Shomyo Masayuki" is a "business of the positive" as an act to the application of Amida Buddha, and the other four species is a line to lead to "Masayuki Shomyo" As for the recitation, the observation, the worship, the Shomyo, and the praise Tannisho, etc. which centered on Amida Buddha. The company is
Nagasaka
It is good because it was a long slope which descends from the top of Azabudai to the Juban. It is not confirmed that it is said that Mr. Nagasaka lived in the vicinity.
Nagai Saka
From the Edo period to the early Meiji period, this name came from a place such as Shiba Nagai Town.
Raven Ming Dynasty
"Ming Dynasty-sama Observer" is believed to be a principal image of prayer, easy delivery prayer, and a prayer for a charm. It is said that it purifies the unclean thing and has the power to purify. It is enshrined on the side of the main gate of the temple, and I want to put my hand together every time I pass.
Potato Laver
The udon slope is that it is because there was a noodle shop until around the end of the year, and the potato washing slope that the origin was because there was a IMO wholesale store. There is a nifty public restroom at the intersection of the two slopes.
Inari-Zaka
There is a yen visit to the north of Sakashita, and the name of the shrine to the Inari gate. There is a town of the cleaning post in Edo Castle in Sakaue and is called a cleaning slope.
Solitary Matsusaka
This is the name of the ancient pine tree which is planted in the southern part of the hill, with legends such as source and origin. It is divided into four slopes of "solitary Matsusaka", "Tanuki Saka", "Daikurosaka" and "darkness slope" in the mark of one solitary pine of Azabu seven wonders.
Izou Tadataka Geodetic List
In Meiji 22, the Tokyo Geoscience Association created a map of the pioneer of surveying and the achievement of Tadataka Inou, which was built Japan. The present table was rebuilt in 1965 because the thing at that time was lost due to war damage. It is located at the top of Maruyama Kofun.
Isarago-zaka Slope
Some legends say the name comes from the foreigner from the Ming Dynasty called Inbeisu who lived here, while others say it is a corrupted form of Osaragi (the old pronunciation of Buddha statue) or a development of the word Isarafu <Nonsense>
Darkness Hill
One of the three wonders of Azabu is divided into four slopes. It is big Kurosaka where there is one daikokuten of the tanuki slope and the seven lucky gods that the raccoon who is bewitched has come out. There is a beautiful red brick Austria Embassy in the middle of the dark slope that the tree was dark even in daytime lush. It goes out to the Hikawa shrine before the bishamonten of the seven lucky gods when going up the solitary Matsusaka which is named after the pine.
Anyang-In
The first Shiba Ward office was established in Anyang-in, and it was established in November, Meiji 11, and Yasujiro Aihara was appointed as the primary mayor. At that time, the Shiba ward was Sakurada, Mita, Shirokane, Takanawa, and the number of units was 14, 757, and 58861 inhabitants. The Shiba Ward office then moved to Atago-machi, where he moved to the current port office in Taisho 15.