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KOTOTOI-DORI Ueno KOTOTOI-DORI EDO-DORI
Mejiro
Takada EXPRESSWAY NO.5 Park Matsugaya
BUNKYO-KU Asakusa
KASUGA - DORI
Takadanobaba WA SEDA- D ORI Ueno ASAKUSA-DORI
ME I JI -D ORI Yushima Taito
Haramachi
TAITO-KU
Okubo KURAMAE BASHI- EXPRESSWAY NO.6
SHINJUKU-
KU GAIEN-HIGASHI- DORI Ichigaya Fujimi HAK U S AN-DORI EXPRESSWAY NO.1 Yanagibashi DORI
Kabukicho Kanda Ryogoku
Shinjuku Y ASUKUNI - D O R I EDO -DORI EXPRESSWAY NO.7
KOSHU-KAIDO Yotsuya SHINJUKU - D ORI EXPWY NO.9 CHUO-DORI CHUO- Tokiwa
Yoyogi Wakaba CHIYODA- KU
KU Nihonbashi
EXPRESSWAY N O.4 KOTO-
KU
Sendagaya Yaesu EXPWY
Yoyogi MEIJI-DORI Hibiya Shinkawa Saga NO.9
Park Jingumae MINATO-KU EXPRESSWAY N O . 3 SAKURADA-DORI Ginza Tsukiji
Akasaka
SHIBUYA- AOYA MA-DORI AOYAMA-DOR I
KU Shinbashi
EXPRESSWAY NO. 3 2 miles 0 miles 2
Shibuya 0 kilometers 2
Roppongi
dead. Built in 1869, the shrine has
some interesting features including
an imposing torii gate, cherry trees,
a pond-garden, and teahouse.
Hie Shrine
7
Reconstructed in 1958 after
the Tokyo air raids, the 1659 building
originally served as the protective
shrine of Edo Castle. In gratitude,
successive sho guns donated lavish
gifts of swords and sacred horses to
the shrine. A line of orange torii
gates forms a colorful tunnel
through the grounds (see p95).
Nikolai Cathedral
8
MAP F3 • 4-1 Kanda-Surugadai,
Chiyoda-ku • 3295-6879 • Open A 1970s reconstruction, Zojo-ji
1–4pm Tue–Sat (to 3:30pm Oct–Mar)
Built with funds provided by a architectural style. This is reflected
Russian czar and designed by in everything from its gravel
English architect Josiah Conder, this fore court, cypress pillars, and the
late 19th-century Russian Orthodox clean lines of the main hall to the
church is an interesting anomaly copper roof that floats majestically
among the temples and shrines above it all (see pp30–31).
of the city. It was named after its
Zojo-ji Temple
founder St. Nikolai Kassatkin, 0
a 19th-century missionary who The venue for the funerals of
con verted thousands of Japanese six Tokugawa shoguns, this temple
in the northern island of Hokkaido. is best visited for its main gate,
Sangedatsu-mon, which dates from
Meiji Shrine
9 1605, and Daibonsho, a 15-tonne
Dedicated to the souls of the
bell. There’s also a Himalayan cedar
Meiji Emperor and his consort, this planted by former US president
shrine was built in the pure Shinto Ulysses S. Grant in 1879 (see p97).
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