Guide to the center

Tokyo Tower
Tokyo Tower is 333m height.Since its opening in 1958, the Tokyo Tower has been the world's tallest self-supporting steel tower. The Eiffel Tower in Paris is 320m high.

Zojo Temple
Zojo Temple was built in 1393, and was moved to its present location in 1598. It is the main temple of the Buddhist Jodo sect in the Kanto area. Tokyo Tower now stands just next to the temple. When Tokugawa Ieyasu, the 1st Shogun of Edo Era, moved to Tokyo in 1590, the Zojo Temple became the Shogun family temple.
A mausoleum of the Shogun family can be found on the temple grounds, and the crest of the Shogun family still decorates the temple buildings. Zojo Temple's main gate is called "Sangedatsumon".
The gate was constructed in 1605 in a contemporary Chinese Tang Dynasty style.

Kyu-Shibarikyu Onshi Teien
This is one of the oldest daimyo gardens still remaining. This area was originally under water, and it was reclaimed from 1655 through to 1658, becoming the residential land of the premise of Roju (a post like the Prime Minister) Tadatomo Ohkubo in 1678.
Tadatomo named it "Rakujuen". After that, the owner changed several times. It was purchased by the Department of the Imperial Household in 1875 and became "Shibarikyu" in 1876.
Although the building and trees were mostly burnt in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, it was granted to the Tokyo Prefecture in 1924.
After the garden was restored, it was opened to the public. In 1979, it was designated as a place of scenic beauty in Japan.

Hamarikyu Onshi Teien
This is a typical daimyo garden of the Edo Era. The garden has three ponds. One is called "Shioiri pond", the pond used to be the most common style for gardens on the beach and drew the seawater to change the taste of a garden, according to the ebb and flow of tide. Until the middle of the 17th century, the area had been the hawKing site of Shogun.
Tsunashige Matsudaira, he is a younger brother of the 4th Shogun, built a house called "Koufu Hama Yashiki" in 1654. When the 6th Shogun Era, Shogun family became the owner and they renamed it to "Hamagoten". After the Meiji Era, the house became an imperial family villa and was renamed "Hamarikyu". However, the Great Kanto Earthquake and the last world war damaged the garden. In 1945, the garden was opened to the public. Based on the Cultural Properties Protection Law of Japan, it was designated as a place of scenic beauty and historical landmark in 1948 and a special historical landmark in 1952.