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University of Tokyo Red Gate (Akamon)

Indirizzo
7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo City, Tokyo
Zona
Tokyo, Giappone
University of Tokyo Red Gate (Akamon)

Perché vale la deviazione

The 1827 vermilion gate built by the Maeda lords to receive a shogun's daughter as a bride, now the symbol of Japan's top university.

Che cosa c’è nei paraggi

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  • 850 m

    Nezu Shrine

    Its richly decorated 1706 buildings, azalea garden and tunnel of red torii offer one of Tokyo's best-preserved Edo-period shrine settings.

  • 1.0 km

    Ueno Park

    The former grounds of the powerful Kaneiji temple became a battlefield in 1868 and later Tokyo's great museum and cherry-blossom park.

  • 1.2 km

    Ueno Toshogu Shrine

    A gilded 1651 shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu that survived the 1868 battle, the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 raids intact.

  • 1.2 km

    Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens

    One of Tokyo's oldest daimyo gardens combines Japanese scenery with Chinese literary and landscape references favored by the Mito Tokugawa family.

  • 1.4 km

    Mori Ogai Memorial Museum

    The museum occupies Kanchoro, the former home where Mori Ogai spent three decades and wrote works including The Wild Geese and The Boat on the Takase River. Ogai also held poetry gatherings here that attempted to bridge rival literary groups, attracting figures such as Akiko Yosano, Takuboku Ishikawa and Mokichi Saito.

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