Embassy of Japan in Washington, D.C.
The Japanese Embassy in Washington, DC, is the diplomatic mission of Japan to the United States of America. It is located on Embassy Row in Washington, DC and dedicated to the care of diplomatic relations between Japan and the United States.
The building was designed by Delano and Aldrich in late New Georgian Art Nouveau style with Asian elements and unlike many of the older buildings provided at the Embassy Row from the beginning as embassy building. It is since 1973 in the National Register of Historic Places. In 1960, the city famous Japanese garden of the embassy an old teahouse of Nahiko Emori, which was originally in Japan and the 100th anniversary of the diplomatic relationship disassembled, was shipped to the U.S. and assembled there.
Especially as a destination site for the times of the cherry blossom is popular, also for all of Washington, DC has a meaning. The trees on the embassy grounds are but as particularly impressive.