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Takanawa Great Wooden Gate
260px, Ukiyoe print by Hiroshige showing site of the Takanawa Gate The was a wooden gate and checkpoint established by the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo period Japan to control travel on the Tōkaidō highway and to mark the official entrance to then city of Edo, located in what is now Takanawa, Minato, Tokyo. The gate no longer exists, but the site received protection as a National Historic Site in 1928. Overview The Takanawa Gate was located on the northeast side of the Sengakuji intersection on Japan National Route 15. Initially, the main entrance to Edo was built in 1616 at Shibaguchi, near what is now Hamamatsucho Station; however, as the city rapidly expanded, the gate was moved 700 meters to the south, just outside Shinagawa-juku. The new structure was completed in 1710. The wooden gate was set up between earthen ramparts measuring nine meters wide by 7.2 meters thick by three meters high, and was painted black. The gate itself was abolished during the latter half of the Ed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanawa
is a neighborhood in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Economy Sony operates the Takanawa Office in Takanawa. Education Minato City Board of Education operates public elementary and junior high schools. Tanakawa 1-chōme 6-27 ban and 2-4-chōme are zoned to Takanawadai Elementary School ( 高輪台小学校) and . Takanawa 1-chōme 1-3-ban are zoned to Shirogane-no-oka Gakuen ( 白金の丘学園) for elementary and junior high school. Takanawa 1-chōme 4-5-ban are zoned to Mita Elementary School ( 御田小学校) and Mita Junior High School ( 田中学校). Takanawadai Elementary School occupies a historic building that had been renovated. Takamatsu Junior High is a junior high school. Takamatsunomiya contributed some of its own mansions for Minato and a junior high school was built there. The Takanawa Public Library occupies the 3rd and 4th floors on the Takanawa Branch office, Minato City. It periodically holds film shows for adult users as well as children's programs involv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shinagawa-juku
was the one of the fifty-three stations of the Tōkaidō.Tōkaidō Shinagawa-juku Haguregumo. Accessed December 10, 2007. It is located in Shinagawa, , . Along with ( Nakasendō), Naitō Shinjuku ( |
History Of Tokyo
History (derived ) is the systematic study and the documentation of the human activity. The time period of event before the invention of writing systems is considered prehistory. "History" is an umbrella term comprising past events as well as the memory, discovery, collection, organization, presentation, and interpretation of these events. Historians seek knowledge of the past using historical sources such as written documents, oral accounts, art and material artifacts, and ecological markers. History is not complete and still has debatable mysteries. History is also an academic discipline which uses narrative to describe, examine, question, and analyze past events, and investigate their patterns of cause and effect. Historians often debate which narrative best explains an event, as well as the significance of different causes and effects. Historians also debate the nature of history as an end in itself, as well as its usefulness to give perspective on the problems of the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Historic Sites Of Japan (Tōkyō)
This list is of the Historic Sites of Japan located within the Metropolis of Tōkyō. National Historic Sites As of 1 January 2021, fifty-three Sites have been designated as being of national significance (including three *Special Historic Sites). , - Prefectural Historic Sites As of 1 May 2021, three hundred and twenty-nine Sites have been designated as being of prefectural importance. Municipal Historic Sites As of 1 May 2020, a further three hundred and forty-one Sites have been designated as being of municipal importance. Registered Historic Sites As of 1 January 2021, one Monument has been registered (as opposed to designated) as an Historic Site at a national level. See also * Cultural Properties of Japan * Musashi Province * History of Tokyo * Tokyo National Museum * List of museums in Tokyo * List of Places of Scenic Beauty of Japan (Tōkyō) * List of Cultural Properties of Japan - paintings (Tōkyō ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yamanote Line
The Yamanote Line ( ja, 山手線, Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ueno, with all but two of its 30 stations connecting to other railway or underground (subway) lines. Internally JR East refers to the "Yamanote Line" as the quadruple-track corridor between Shinagawa and Tabata via Shinjuku. The corridor consists of a pair of tracks used by Yamanote local trains and another parallel pair of tracks called "the Yamanote Freight Line" used by the Saikyō and Shōnan-Shinjuku line trains, some limited express services, and freight trains. In everyday usage, branding on maps and station signage, the "Yamanote Line" refers to the local service running the entire line looping between the Yamanote corr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
JR East
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and is the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, and next to the Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is also one of the three only Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the other being JR Central and JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002. Following the breakup, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Takanawa Gateway Station
is a railway station in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. The station is operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). The station is also accessible by the Toei Asakusa Line and the Keikyu Line via the nearby Sengakuji Station. Naming During the public naming campaign conducted by JR East in June 2018, the following names were suggested for the station (in alphabetical order): *Higashi-Sengakuji Station (東泉岳寺駅) – the station is east of Sengakuji Station *JR Sengakuji Station (JR泉岳寺駅) – to distinguish it from the existing Sengakuji Station, station of the same name on Toei Asakusa Line *Kōnan Station (港南駅) – the station is located in the Kōnan district, southern Minato ward *Kōnan-Takanawa Station (港南高輪駅) *Minami-Minato/Nankō Station (南港駅) *Minami-Kōnan Station (南港南駅) *Nishi-Kōnan Station (西港南駅) *Nishi-Shibaura Station (西芝浦駅) *Olympics 2020 Station (オリンピック2020駅) *Shibaura Station (芝浦駅) � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toei Asakusa Line
The is a subway line in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the Tokyo subway operator Toei Subway. The line runs between in Ōta and in Sumida. The line is named after the Asakusa district, a cultural center of Tokyo, under which it passes. The Asakusa Line was the first subway line in Japan to offer through services with a private railway. Today, it has more through services to other lines than any other subway line in Tokyo. Keikyu operates through trains on the Keikyu Main Line to and the Keikyu Airport Line to . The Keisei Electric Railway operates through trains on the Keisei Oshiage Line to and the Keisei Main Line to , and the Shibayama Railway runs trains via the Keisei Main Line and the Shibayama Railway Line to . Via its through services with Keisei and Keikyu, the Asakusa line is the only train line that offers a direct connection between Tokyo's two main airports. The Asakusa Line is often split into two routes: Oshiage–Sengakuji and Sengakuji–Nishi-magome ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sengakuji Station
is a railway station in Minato, Tokyo is a special ward in Tokyo, Japan. It is also called Minato City in English. It was formed in 1947 as a merger of Akasaka, Azabu and Shiba wards following Tokyo City's transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibits ..., Japan. It is entirely owned and operated by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, but also serves as the northern terminus of the Keikyu Main Line operated by the private railway operator Keikyu. The station is a major transfer point for passengers on the Toei Asakusa Line because most trains on the Asakusa Line switch to the Keikyu Line past Sengakuji: passengers must usually change trains at Sengakuji to reach Gotanda, Nishi-magome and other stations on the south end of the Asakusa Line. The station is designed with platforms shared between Keikyu and Asakusa Line trains to expedite this connection. The station is named after Sengaku-ji, a nearby temple famous for housing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Meiji Period
The is an era of Japanese history that extended from October 23, 1868 to July 30, 1912. The Meiji era was the first half of the Empire of Japan, when the Japanese people moved from being an isolated feudal society at risk of colonization by Western powers to the new paradigm of a modern, industrialized nation state and emergent great power, influenced by Western scientific, technological, philosophical, political, legal, and aesthetic ideas. As a result of such wholesale adoption of radically different ideas, the changes to Japan were profound, and affected its social structure, internal politics, economy, military, and foreign relations. The period corresponded to the reign of Emperor Meiji. It was preceded by the Keiō era and was succeeded by the Taishō era, upon the accession of Emperor Taishō. The rapid modernization during the Meiji era was not without its opponents, as the rapid changes to society caused many disaffected traditionalists from the former samu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Base Point
In mathematics, a pointed space or based space is a topological space with a distinguished point, the basepoint. The distinguished point is just simply one particular point, picked out from the space, and given a name, such as x_0, that remains unchanged during subsequent discussion, and is kept track of during all operations. Maps of pointed spaces (based maps) are Continuous (topology), continuous maps preserving basepoints, i.e., a map f between a pointed space X with basepoint x_0 and a pointed space Y with basepoint y_0 is a based map if it is continuous with respect to the topologies of X and Y and if f\left(x_0\right) = y_0. This is usually denoted :f : \left(X, x_0\right) \to \left(Y, y_0\right). Pointed spaces are important in algebraic topology, particularly in homotopy theory, where many constructions, such as the fundamental group, depend on a choice of basepoint. The pointed set concept is less important; it is anyway the case of a pointed discrete space. Pointed sp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inō Tadataka
was a Japanese surveyor and cartographer. He is known for completing the first map of Japan using modern surveying techniques. Early life Inō was born in the small village of Ozeki in the middle of Kujūkuri beach, in Kazusa Province (in what is now Chiba Prefecture). He was born to the Jimbō family and his childhood name was Sanjirō. His mother died when he was seven and after a somewhat tumultuous childhood (not uncommon at the time), he was adopted (age 17) by the prosperous Inō family of Sawara (now a district of Katori, Chiba), a town in Shimōsa Province. He ran the family business, expanding its ''sake'' brewing and rice-trading concerns, until he retired at the age of 49. After retirement, he moved to Edo and became a pupil of astronomer Takahashi Yoshitoki, from whom he learned Western astronomy, geography, and mathematics. Mission In 1800, after nearly five years of study, the Tokugawa shogunate authorized Inō to perform a survey of the country using h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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