We introduce attractive spot where is recommended to outing and sightseeing.
Although “Nukebenten,” the nickname for Itsukushima-jinja Shrine, is nowadays used to refer to the area, the shrine, which is known as the place where Minamoto no Yoshiie, a Minamoto clan samurai of the late Heian period (794-1185), visited to pray, is actually located in this area. Because former Kamakura Highway ran this neighborhood…
Designed by Kason Sasaki, this garden with a large lawn area and pond features Japanese and Western styles blended together. The garden is assumed to have been completed in 1887, at the same time as the completion of the construction of Okuma Shigenobu’s palace. Handed-down convention karaattamo…
With the formal name “Kasumigaseki-zan Honkaku-in Taiso-ji,” Thatched hut "emperor hermitage" which Buddhist priest, emperor opened is nisakanoborima in forerunner in around 1596 (Keicho 1)…
In commemoration of marriage of the Emperor Showa, it was completed in building donated by voluntary Japanese residents in Taiwan at the time in 1927,designed by architect, Matsunosuke Moriyama.…
Together with the development of the Tokugawa shogunate, people started wearing kimono made with komon- and sarasa-dyeing techniques, which gave rise to many dyeing manufacturers. In Kanda and Asakusa having abundant high quality water…
Kinokuniya Bookstore is the largest bookstore storing about 1,200,000 goods including Japanese and foreign books, comics, CDs, and DVDs. They also offer us duty-free goods. The first-floor Japanese green tea cafe…
Following the discontinuation of the tram system from Shinjuku in 1970, Shinjuku Promenade Park –“Shiki-no-Michi – was completed in 1974 in the area which used to accommodate the rails leading to the depot for the trams. Of "green…
It is a transport terminal located near Shinjuku Station South gate. All the platform of highway bus and taxi around the station gathered in the terminal. You can easily transfer from Shinjuku railway station to any platform you look for. High speed, long distance…
As a guardian god of Naito Shinjuku, one of the shukuba (post stations) in the Edo period (1603-1867), this inari-sha shrine,which worships the Inari god of agriculture and business, was brought from Mount Yoshino in Yamato-no-kuni (current Nara Prefecture) before the Edo period. There was the cause near Shinjuku 3 chome intersection, but is gen a year (1624 through 44) Kanei…
Utilizing the building of a discontinued elementary school, this museum exhibits about 5,000 toys, including mainly wooden toys. Including board game which domestic and foreign traditional toys, adults can enjoy actually…
Located on the ground above Seseragi-no-sato Park sewage processing facility, it has an area of about 8,000 square meters. The park has seseragi (streams) surrounded by miscellaneous trees mainly consisting of jolcham oaks. Care…
Before Meiji Era, there had been Gozutennou shrine and Inari shrine. Later, those two shrines were enshirined together and became "Suga Shrine". With Suka of company name, **koredammei is…
Rakuu-Tei, located in the Japanese Traditional Garden, is a tea house built in 1987. White plum blossoms in front of Rakuu-Tei bloom earliest in Shinjuku Gyoen. Standing up and making a bow seat (ryurei…
Played kansei originally in fuku*ineka of the Suwa Shrine precincts of Tozuka in (1653) in 1653, and farmer Seiemon Tanaka of here is kan from Kumano in (1832) in 1832…
Zenkokuji Temple was bulit in 1595 in kouji-machi under the order of Ieyasu Tokugawa. It is fire in 1670 (Kanbun 10)…
The Shichifukujin Tour is an event to visit temples and shrines enshrining Shichifukujin (seven lucky gods) to pray for good luck from January 1 to 7. It is about time when, with the Seven Deities of Good Luck, in the middle of the Muromachi era, the beginning of bamboo forest…
Shinjuku Historical Museum was established as the center of Shinjuku's history and its culture. Change nimokakawa of sudden urbanization, war damage after the Meiji era and revival and busy history…
Founded in the Kamakura period (1185-1333), this temple of the Buzan sect of Shingon Buddhism is known as a great place for beautiful botan (peonies) and is popularly referred to as Botan-dera (peony temple). is known as a great place for beautiful botan (peonies) and is popularly referred to as Botan-dera (peony temple). 100 stocks that were ported by Nara Hase-dera Temple of the head temple of a Buddhist sect about…
The Shinjuku Ward Soseki study Memorial opens on September 24! Great writer, Soseki Natsume is born and raised in Shinjuku and is house of Wasedaminamicho called "Soseki study" in nine years of later years…
Around Shinjuku West Exit is a business district where skyscrapers such as Tokyo Metropolitan government stand side by side. "Shinjuku Central Park" is here in the center of the busy business district, referred to as oasis. "Newly…