Kitanomaru KÅen
The Kitanomaru Park (Japanese北の丸公園, Kitanomaru kōen ) is a public park that the area of the northern district of Edo Castle (北の丸, kita -no- maru ), comprises in today's Chiyoda ward of Tokyo. Along the former East District is now home to the Park Kokyo Higashi Gyoen.
The Kitanomaru Park also forms its own neighborhood with the postcode 102-0091.
History
The Edo castle was protected to the north by the " Northern bailey " Kitanomaru to the one reached by a high-altitude gate and a drawbridge over a moat. From Kitanomaru then you came to the city by a large gate system, the Tayasu - mon, and a dam across the deeply cut here " inside gap", west of the dam Chidori -ga- fuchi and east Ushi -ga- fuchi and Shimizu- bori mentioned. The banks of the ditches are famous for their cherry blossom today. Another goal that Shimisu - mon, is on the eastern flank of the Kitanomaru.
When Meireki - fire, the buildings were destroyed there, the site has now been used for military purposes, including to put a train on the training of horses. In the middle Edo period Kitanomaru [NB 1] was named by two of the three later branch of the Tokugawa family, Gosankyō, namely inhabited by Shimizu and Tayasu. After the Meiji Restoration, the barracks of the Imperial Guard was created in Kitanomaru.
As part of the Olympic Games in 1964 a large octagonal sports hall for traditional sports Nippon Budokan was built, but which is also used for concerts. Next there is a Museum of Natural Sciences was built, which provides access to science and technology children and adolescents. Outside the parks, but belonging to the park, there is the National Museum of Modern Art, to which the arts and crafts museum is in the brick building of the headquarters of the former Imperial Guard. In addition to the crafts museum stands an equestrian statue of Prince Kitashirakawa (1847-1895) [NB 2], another monument in the park commemorates the Prime Minister of the post-war period, Shigeru Yoshida.
The park, as well as the other parks of imperial possession, is subordinate to the Ministry of Environment.