Tokyo still retains the footprint of its Edo past, if you know where, and how, to look. Stand for a minute at the floor-to-ceiling windows, high up in the new Andaz hotel in Toranomon Hills, and you will see odd-shaped pockets of land sandwiched between the temples, Shinto shrines and high-rise blocks that lead to the Imperial Gardens. These are all that remain of the Daimyo (ruling lords) residences that stood there during the Edoera, which ran from 1603 to 1868.
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