Japan - Tokyo - Okinawa | My Travel Report: Akihabara, Imperial Palace and some Skytree

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Hallo Steemians,

Two years ago I was in Japan with my family for 14 days. My in-laws were there, too. My father-in-law comes from Russia and did his military service in Vladivostok, since then he dreams of visiting Japan. For him, it was a long dream come true. And for us it was such a nice experience that we definitely want to go there again. Already for the reason that we only looked at Tokyo, a little surrounding area and Okinawa, the country has so much more to offer. It is very clean and really beautiful, the Japanese are friendly and very disciplined and I would like to bring you closer to a small series of different places we have visited there and wish you a lot of fun.

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On the third day of our trip to Japan we had two destinations on our list.
The Electronic Quarter Akihabara, theImperial Palace Since I am some technique Afin, I was really looking forward to the electronic quarter, but also the imperial palace and its surroundings are very impressive.


Akihabara (Electronics Shopping Mile)

Tokyo's metro network is well developed and you can really get anywhere in this big city by public transport, including the station Akihabara Station, as soon as you leave the station you are already in the middle of Tokyo's electronic district.

Here there are small shops between the houses, small skyscrapers in which there are really only slot machines, these are then mostly divided according to type of machines per floor, ground floor. Winning machines (i.e. crane games etc.), 1st floor Beat´M Up games, 2nd floor racing games and so on until e.g. the 7th floor. As you can see in the pictures, we were really happy that these buildings are fully air-conditioned, with the temperatures in the city. Well, it was August.


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The metro network then went directly to the Akihabara Station, which is already located in the middle of the electronic district.



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Many tall buildings dominate the cityscape here, as so often in Tokyo. Gamblers and elders of us say the inscriptions SEGA on the buildings that are gambled here.



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In the small and large shops around the district there are shops with all kinds of electronic parts and equipment. But there are whole floors where you can only buy fan articles or playing cards for role-playing games. A must-see!



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During the week during working hours, we have Tuesday around 11 o'clock, there are quite a lot of people on the road here as everywhere in Tokyo.



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Adjacent was a small ZEN garden with a temperature measurement on its outside. First we ate something on the road and then we moved on towards the imperial palace.


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From the Central Station to the Imperial Palace

The Emperor's Palace is only 600m from the Tokyo Central Station, a reason to do a small city walk through the skyscrapers. Since we have two small children in tow, we can of course only walk longer in the city at these temperatures.

However, you really feel the big city here when you walk through the skyscrapers. As soon as you reach the imperial palace area you have to cover another meters because it is a really huge area. The emperor still has his seat there today and lives in the building which can be seen in the following pictures.

The palace district itself can only be entered with registration, which must be submitted weeks in advance. The buildings themselves remain closed to the public. On December 23 (Emperor's birthday) and January 2 (New Year's Day) the palace grounds may be entered without permission.


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From the main building of Tokyo Railway Station you go directly to the west to the Imperial Palace.



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The buildings on the way really make you feel the urban jungle.



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The really wide moat to the palace grounds and the associated wall already look very massive.



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Here you can see the really huge square in front of the entrance area of the palace area including a small part of the palace garden.



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The bridge to the inner palace area as well as the residence of the emperor himself could be seen from here.


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Afterwards we passed the Tokyo Skytree for a while and then we ate something there. But we didn't plan to go up there, first it costs a lot and secondly you have to wait a long time. For a nice view we have chosen Tokyo City Hall which has a visitor platform almost at the top and costs nothing at all. But more about this in one of my next reports.


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Thanks for reading my little report.

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Okay, thank you for the advice, I didn't really realize that. Learned again, cya.

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