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location, close to the political
centers of Kasumigaseki and
the Diet Building, makes it a Did You Know?
favorite place for public
protests, especially on May During the Edo Period, STAY
Day. The large bandstand in some of Japan’s most
the center is also occasionally powerful feudal Aman Hotel
used for concerts. lords resided in A glamorous high-rise
Marunouchi.
hotel, with a hot tub
in each room.
9 H6 ⌂ 1-5-6 Otemachi,
Marunouchi District look. Opposite the station’s Chiyoda ∑ aman.com
丸の内地区 south gate is the shopping
mall KITTE, with the Tokyo
H6 Tokyo Stn,
Marunouchi line City-i information center on The Tokyo Station
the first floor. The English-
£ Tokyo Stn, many lines Hotel
speaking staff here, including Next to Tokyo Station,
During the Edo era, this district Pepper the robot, offer advice this luxury hotel is an
earned the name “Gambler’s and help to visitors. oasis of calm and peace.
Meadow” as its isolation made A short walk west of the
H6 ⌂ 1-9-1
it an ideal place to gamble station up Miyuki-dori and Marunouchi, Chiyoda
secretly. In the Meiji period over the moat via the ∑ thetokyostation
the army used it, selling it in Wadakura bridge leads hotel.jp/en
1890 to Mitsubishi. The arrival to the Wadakura Fountain
of the railway increased the Park, which contains some
desirability of this barren interesting water features.
wasteland as a business site, Returning over the Wadakura Tokyo Prince Hotel
and after the 1923 earthquake, bridge, cross Hibiya-dori and Although it’s slightly
many other firms moved here. turn right. About 500 m dated, this hotel makes
Tokyo Station, designed by (550 yds) away is the Meiji a great base from which
Kingo Tatsuno and completed Seimei Kan Building (1934), to explore the city.
in 1914, is supposedly based with its huge Corinthian F9 ⌂ 3-3-1 Shibakoen,
on the design of Amsterdam’s columns. Hiroshige, the wood- Minato ∑ prince
Centraal Station. Its dome was block print artist, was born on hotels.co.jp
damaged in the 1945 air raids this site in 1797.
and subsequently replaced by
the polyhedron there today. Tokyo City-i
The original reliefs adorning ⌂ 2-7-2 Marunouchi, Chiyoda
the domes above the north # 8am–8pm daily
and south exits are worth a ∑ en.tokyocity-i.jp
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