Marunouchi is the main commercial district boarded by the Tokyo station, Imperial Palace and the Tokyo International Forum to the south in Yurakucho. The Marunouchi area is also home to Imperial Theatre and the Tokyo Post Office. The easiest way to get to the area is by one of the many rail lines to Tokyo station or by a short stroll from the popular Ginza area.
Located centrally in Tokyo, Marunouchi is Tokyo’s business district and also home to Japan’s Imperial Palace and gardens.
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Below is a Map of Marunouchi with the major attractions numbered. You will note the huge Imperial Palace park in the center of the map with the rail lines to the east of it. This is where Tokyo Station is and it is here where many visitors arive to tokyo on the Shinkasen bullet train. To the east of this map is the Ginza area while many goverment buildings are situated in the South West.
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The Imperial Theater is a theatre located opposite the imperial palace’s detached court gardens and the palace complex moat. The Imperial Theatre is noted for being the first western style theatre in Japan, the building also incorporates the Idemitsu Museum of Arts.
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The Kouko or Imperial Palace is located where the Edo Castle stood in the 17th to 19th Century, there are quite a few features of the old Edo Castle still to be seen including original gates, moats and some stone walls.
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Opening in 1997 the Tokyo International Forum is a masterpiece in modern engineering and design. With 11 stories above the ground and 3 below. The centre rises 60 metres from street and housing over 145000 square metres of floorspace, the centre houses a amazing glass and steel atrium which is open to the public and has a very useful information booth, which has a large collection of Tokyo informantion and the people on the information desk are very helpful and are quite good with English.
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Tokyo station is located in the Marunouchi business district of Tokyo and is the terminus for the Shinkansen bullet trains from most major citys.
Located in Kitanomaru Park just outside the Imperial Palace grounds in the central Tokyo suburb of Marunouchi is the well known martial arts hall known as Nippon Budokan.
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These huge mechanical crabs are popular with many seafood restaurants.