A walk to the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

This is the Hirakawa-mon Gate which is the closest gate of the Imperial Palace from Hotel Niwa Tokyo.
The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace is a public park approx. 20min. on foot from the Hotel and you can also see The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and Kitanomaru-Park right beside them.

Inside the Hirakawa-mon Gate there are the Trees of 47 Prefectures and the Plum Tree Slope.

Tall buildings, stonewalls and plum trees are making a particular view of Tokyo.

This is the remains of the main castle tower. The fire in 1657 burned the tower and was never reconstructed.

We were able to see an early blooming cherry blossoms in the park.

If you take a closer look at the picture you can see a lot of bulbuls on the cherry tree branch.

We walked around the park and got out from the Kitahanebashi-mon Gate.
This is a view of the Hirakawa-moat and a stonewall of the casle keep. A big moat and a curve of the stonewall reminds us a scenes of Edo period.

The East Gardens of the Imperial Palace
Around 20min. on foot from Hotel Niwa Tokyo or
1min. walk from Subway Mita-Line Otemachi Sta. C10 exit (2 stations from Suidobashi Sta.).

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