Moto-Akasaka, Minato, Tokyo

Moto - Akasaka (Japanese元 赤 坂, "Alt - Akasaka " ) is a district of Minato district of Tokyo, Japan prefecture. It is located in the western central Tokyo and consists mainly of parks. Moto - Akasaka is divided into two chome, where according to the census 2005 582 people lived; the daily population was 7,875.

Moto - Akaksaka 1 -chome consists mainly of office buildings in the southeast of the district near the intersection Akasaka- Mitsuke, at the meet - and Aoyama - dori Sotobori. To the east lies the government district Nagatacho, north Kioicho in the New Otani, a large site which was opened for the Summer Olympic Games in 1964. In Moto - Akasaka 1 -chome, the construction company Kajima Kensetsu is headquartered. It is home to a branch temple of Toyokawa Inari, a temple of the Soto shū in Toyokawa.

Moto - Akasaka 2 -chome covers the major part of the district. There are surrounded by greenery essentially only three building complexes:

• In the north, near the Yotsuya Train Station, and Geihinkan, the residence for state guests. The neo-baroque main building was completed in 1908 as the palace of the Crown Prince, later renamed Akasaka Rikyu, transferred after the Second World War to the state and used among others by the National Assembly Library, the judicial authority and the Organising Committee of the Olympic Games. After a conversion, it serves its present purpose since 1974 and was designated in 2009 as a National Treasure of Japan.
• Southwest is the Akasaka- goyōchi, a terrain on which several residences of the imperial family are, including the current Togu - gosho, which serves as the Palace of the Crown Prince since 1951. The lobby also houses a branch of the Kogu keisatsu, the palace police.
• On the west of Moto - Akasaka, near the Meiji Jingu Stadium and the National Stadium has been in the Meiji Kinenkan, an event center, which is mainly used for wedding celebrations at the Meiji Shrine.

Moto - Akasaka is limited to the south by the Aoyama - dori south is Akasaka, the west lies Kita- Aoyama and in the north it borders on the districts of Minami- Motomachi, Yotsuya and Wakaba in Shinjuku district. At the southwest corner of the district of Aoyama 1 -chome station is at the eastern end of the stations Nagatacho and Akasaka- Mitsuke, stops of each several subway lines. The Akasaka Tunnel leads the Tokyo City Highway No. 4 ( Shinjuku Line) passing under the park of Geihinkan the north by Moto - Akasaka. There also run a series of tunnels that lead away the Marunouchi Line and the Chūō Main Line from the south exit of the station Yotsuya.

In the Edo period arose in previously rural Akasaka residences of noble families and their followers for their stays in Edo, now Tokyo. Among them was especially the residence of the lords of Kishū, a branch of the Tokugawa family. When, after the Meiji Restoration, which ousted the Tokugawa Tennō to Edo / Tōkyō moved, came to this site, the Imperial residences that shape today's Moto - Akasaka.