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Hattori Building
8
MAP M4 • 4-5-11 Ginza,
Chuo-ku • 3562-2111 • Open
10:30am–7pm
The 1932 structure, created by
Jin Watanabe, is a Ginza landmark. It
is also known as the Wako Building,
after the jeweler it houses. With its
curving frontage and clock tower,
the building appears as a backdrop
in several old movies. The grand
interior is just as impressive.
Ministry of Justice
9
Building
MAP L4 • 1-1-1 Kasumigaseki,
Chiyoda-ku • 3580-4111
Although not open to the public, the
building’s exterior, well renovated in
the 1990s, is worth a look. A German
company, Ende and Böckmann,
designed this 1895 redbrick structure
in a style that mixes formal elegance
with functionality.
A splendid cupola adorns Tokyo
Nikolai Cathedral
Station’s main hall 0
The 1891 cathedral was
Tokyo Station
6 lucky to survive the 1923 earthquake,
Threatened with demolition on with only its onion domes destroyed.
many occasions, the Tokyo Station A new green dome was placed on
building has survived thanks to the top of the cruciform Russian
efforts of preservation groups over Orthodox church after the disaster,
the years. Its future now seems and impressive stained-glass
assured. Designed by Kingo Tatsuno, win dows were installed (see p43).
the 1914 structure is
faced with locally made
bricks and reinforced Otsuka BUNK YO - KOTOTOI-DORI
with steel shipped from KU Ueno
Britain and the United KASUGA-DORI Hongo Park
States (see p76). EX P R ESSWAY NO.5 HAKUSAN-DORI HONGO-DORI Ueno TAITO -
KU
Gokoku-ji
7 SHINJUKU- Yushima Taito
Temple
KU
MAP C1 • 5-40-1 Otsuka, GAIEN-HIGASHI-DORI Fujimi Jinbocho YUSHIMA-ZAKA EXPRESSWAY NO.1
Bunkyo-ku • 3941-0764 Ichigaya SOTOBORI-DORI
The temple grounds have Kanda EDO -DORI
interesting features, CHUO-DORI
including a belfry and a Imperial Palace
EXPW Y NO.9
East Gardens
rare two-story pagoda. Wakaba CHIYODA- Nihonbashi
SHINJUK U - D ORI
The main hall, with its KU
colossal wooden pillars, EXPWY NO.4 HIBIYA-DORI SHOWA-DORI
massive copper roof, Yaesu CHUO -
KU
and dark interior full AOYAMA- DORI
of price less Buddhist Akasaka EXPWY N O.1 Tsukiji
artifacts, is the centerpiece 0 km 1 SAKURADA-DORI Ginza
of this grand complex. 0 miles 1

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