October 24, 2015
Meg's ID outing experience
Hi, Meg here!
I'm going to talk about the places that I went to at the Tokyo imperial palace grounds.
On October 21 we went to the imperial palace.
One of the places that we went to is the Edo castle grounds. First when I went there I thought it was huge. It was surrounded by huge big blocks of walls all the way around, but it was not to far from Tokyo station. I thought that it must have taken many years to finish building it all.
We sadly didn't get close enough to the nijubashi to be able to take a photo this trip. Here are some swans instead! - PW
Next is the Nijubashi bridge.
We went to the entrance and there was a big mon (gate). We tried to go in but it was closed. I wondered why so I looked it up and it said that they only open the entrances on January 2 (when the Emperor greets the citizens for the new year) and December 23 (the Emperor's birthday).
But from the view it looked very beautiful so I was sad that we couldn't go in.
While walking for a long time around the old castle grounds, there were a couple places where we could rest .
We stopped at the inner park. It was clean and very green every where [This is where the old Daimyo had their houses, close to the shogun's castle, in the Edo era -PW]. There were some people resting and sleeping there on the grass. I think it is a good place for people who want to stay in a quiet place without any disturbance.
It was a very beautiful green place, so I think that I want to go there again .