Park & garden

Takahashi Korekiyo Memorial Park

Address: 7-3-39 Akasaka, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Area: Tokyo, Japan

Hours: The park has no set closing days or fixed opening hours; the management office is open seasonally: 08:30–19:15 from April 1 to September 30 and 08:30–17:15 from October 1 to March 31.
How to visit: The Aoyama Street entrance leads to a playground with a slide and sandbox; the garden area is farther inside. Takahashi’s historic residence was relocated and is displayed at the Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, not in this park.
Hours: Good with children
Hours: About 30 min

Why it is worth the detour

This quiet garden occupies the grounds of Finance Minister Takahashi Korekiyo’s residence, where rebel soldiers assassinated him in his upstairs bedroom on February 26, 1936. The house was later moved elsewhere, but the surviving garden and bronze statue make this one of the clearest physical traces of the coup attempt.

Takahashi Korekiyo Memorial Park is a serene garden in Tokyo, marking the site of a significant historical event. It features a bronze statue and is one of the few physical traces of the 1936 coup attempt.

The people behind this address

Documented connections, not celebrity trivia.

Korekiyo Takahashi
Lived here
Место дома в Аояме, где он был убит 26 февраля 1936 года

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

700 m
State Guest House Akasaka Palace
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1.0 km
Sanno Hotel Site
The Sanno Hotel, replaced by Sanno Park Tower, became a principal rebel stronghold after the assassinations and occupation of central Tokyo. Soldiers barricaded themselves in the fashionable hotel while loyal forces gathered outside and imperial orders transformed the self-styled reformers into officially condemned rebels.
1.0 km
Aoyama Cemetery
Aoyama Cemetery is best known for its cherry blossoms and historical significance.
1.2 km
Prime Minister's Official Residence (Former Prime Minister's Office)
Rebels stormed this 1929 building seeking Prime Minister Okada Keisuke but killed his brother-in-law, Matsuo Denzō, after mistaking him for Okada. The prime minister hid inside for more than a day and escaped among visitors arriving to mourn his supposed death; the historic building was later shifted within the compound and converted into the official residence.
1.5 km
Roppongi Hills
Mori Tower's 52nd-floor city view and Mori Art Museum, with Louise Bourgeois's giant spider «Maman» at the foot.
1.5 km
National Diet Building
The Lockheed scandal became national theater here when Marubeni executives testified before the House of Representatives Budget Committee in February and March 1976. Their denials about coded “peanuts” receipts were later judged to be false testimony, fixing the word “peanuts” in Japan’s political vocabulary as shorthand for covert money.