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Japan's only national library belonging to the Diet, standing on the north side of the Capitol. One of the main roles is to support the activities of the National Assembly. Collecting and preserving publications widely published in Japan. In principle, anyone who is 18 years old or older can use it. The materials are only used in the hall, and can be viewed (copied) in the reading room or the specialized room. The material is searchable on the Internet. User registration is required to view the document, but if you register, you can also apply for a copy from the Internet.

A museum facility accompanied by a public opening set up by Josai University, a school corporation, to run various educational programs that nurture an intellectual quest for earth life and natural sciences. It will store and display about 200 real fossil and academic specimens deposited and donated by Michio Oishi, Emeritus Professor Emeritus of Tokyo University and Paleontological Museum of Liaoning Province, China. For the purpose of thinking, we are conducting research on education and dissemination activities such as workshops using fossils as test specimens, natural history and museology.

There is a Japanese-style garden on the left and a Western-style garden on the right in front of the parliament building, with a large row of ginkgo trees in front of the parliament building. In one corner of the Western-style garden, there is a Japanese-style origin mark and a clock tower. The Japanese-style garden is the site of the former Kasumigaseki Palace, and is a excursion garden centered on a pond.

A leafy promenade that stretches for about 700m along the moat of the Imperial Palace. About 260 cherry blossoms open and light up at night during the Sakura Festival period from late March to early April. The view of the cherry blossom trees reflected in the water area of the moat is very beautiful.

The Capitol, the center of Japanese politics. Towards the front, the upper house is on the right, and the lower house is on the left. After construction started in Taisho 9 (1920), it was completed in 1936 (Showa 11) after 17 years. It is made of steel-framed reinforced concrete, three floors above ground level (four in the central part) and one floor below ground, about 206m long, about 89m deep and about 65m high in the central tower. Nearly 30,000 tons of granite and marble collected from around the country were used in the building, and a total of 2.54 million people were involved. The tour is free without reservation for both the House of Representatives and the House of Councillors. In any case, you can look around the main meeting hall, the holiday hall, the central hall, the front yard, etc. Check each official site for details.

A stand in the Kusunoki Rest House, which includes a large number of items that can only be obtained here, including the Imperial Palace visit memorabilia and Japanese traditional crafts, as well as Japanese sake and Japanese sweets that are closely related to the Imperial Palace.

A stand in front of a statue of Masasei Kusunoki. The original soft serve made with rice koji molasses, which has restored its ancient Japanese sweetness, is popular. It also sells soft wrapped in gold leaf made by Kanazawa Foil Co., Ltd.

The Sannomaru Shozo-kan was built inside the Imperial Palace's Higashi Gyoen after art items such as paintings, books and crafts passed down to the Imperial Family were donated to the country, and was opened in 1993. These art objects are preserved and managed, as well as researched and researched, and exhibited to the public at the same time. It has a collection of about 9800 items, including donated items from the former Chichibu and Mikasa families. There are also a number of valuable works, such as the Heian period's "Kōba Hōhan Eiyūshū" and Ito Jakuchū's "Kōshi-e", which can be viewed in planned exhibitions and other places. In October 2023, part of the new facility was opened due to rebuilding. The full-scale opening, with an exhibition area of 1300 square meters, is scheduled for the year of Reiwa 8.

On the north side of the Imperial Palace district, a park built to commemorate the marriage of His Majesty the Emperor in 1961 was redeveloped under the theme of "Continuation and New Development" at the occasion of Emperor Naruhito's marriage in 1993. There will be a large fountain that will blow up to 6m in height, a waterfall-like facility with a height of 5.5m and a length of 30m to make you feel the breath of life, and a monument of a spherical fountain where water is shaped. The bright, glass-fronted rest area includes water information and an information corner for flowers in the Imperial Palace, as well as terrace seats, which are also used as water stations for Imperial Palace runners. The atmosphere is good and recommended for the night park to be lit up.

The Imperial Palace Garden, with an area of approximately 210,000 square meters, which exposed parts of the Honmaru, Ninomaru, and Sannomaru of the former Edo Castle. Some have been designated as the "Edo Castle Site", a special historical site of the country, and there are three gates that can be entered and exited: the Otemon, the Hirakawa Gate, and the Kita-Kipbashi Gate. There are only a few architectural objects at that time, such as Hyakuninbansho and Fujimi Tamai, but when you stand on the castle tower at the site of the castle tower and stroll around the garden through the ruins of Honmaru and Ninomaru Gardens, Matsu no Corridor, created by Yushu Kobori, the former Edo Castle emerges. The building building of the Honmaru resting place displays a model of the restoration of the Edo Castle castle during the Kanei period. At the time of entry, we recommend the Imperial Palace illustration map and the visit to the Imperial Palace. See the Imperial Household Agency HP for details.