A diplomat friend and I enjoy lunch at the Akasaka ... hub of Tokyo. As we part, he tips me off that there's a little-known footpath from the hotel, leading uphill to the Hie Shrine, one of ...

These heritage floats will be joined by the shrine’s main Miya Mikoshi float for the parade and gather at the soon-to-open Tokyo World Gate Akasaka complex at 2.30pm. A detailed procession map ...

The lobby here is simple, but modern and comfortable - dominated by a map ... of Tokyo that was home to samurai, so it has its fair share of shrines and palaces (including the Akasaka Imperial ...

Originally Akasaka-mitsuke ("Mitsuke" means "look-out" or "guard post") was the location in Tokyo of a gate in the outer wall of ... to enter the grounds of Myogonji Temple and Toyokawa Inari Shrine, ...