Honestly, I didn’t want to come to such a boring place.. but it was a group tour, so I had no choice.. Since I was here anyway, I took a few photos.
They don’t let you inside the Imperial Palace. So I only have photos of the gardens outside.. -_-;; What kind of Imperial Palace visit is this..
The gardens
The weather was bad, so the photos are lousy too.
Maybe because it’s right in the middle of the city, there are lots of buildings around it.
They say that forest of buildings over there is the center of Japan’s political and business world.
A bridge that at least has a bit of an imperial-palace feel
The outer moat
Gardens full of homeless people
Statue of General Kusunoki (Masashige)
If you’re in Tokyo with nothing to do and bored out of your mind, drop by..
The National Diet Building is open to the public.
It has a classic, old-fashioned feel. It’s as if Japan’s history is alive in here. But the seats are narrower than they look.. Japanese Diet members must have a hard time sitting through sessions. The seat up there is for the Emperor.
The ceiling
The guest gallery
Corridor
Corridor
It looks like they took great care because they wanted to build something that would go down in history.
Statue of Ito Hirobumi
A historical figure.. though in Korea he’s known only as the target of patriot Ahn Jung-geun’s attack..
The National Diet Building
It’s worth seeing once, I guess.