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Azabu-Jūban Station
is the name of two subway stations in Minato, Tokyo, Japan, one operated by Tokyo Metro and the other by Toei Subway. Lines This station is served by the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line and Toei Ōedo Line. The station is numbered N-04 for the Namboku Line and E-22 for the Ōedo Line. Station layout Tokyo Metro The Namboku Line station consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The ticket gates are on the first basement floor, and the platforms are on the third basement floor. File:Azabujuban-Sta-Gate.JPG, Ticket gates, 2008 File:AzabujubanNanboku.jpg, Namboku Line platforms, September 2016 Toei The Toei Ōedo Line station also consists of an island platform serving two tracks. The ticket gates are on the fourth basement floor, and the platforms are on the sixth basement floor. File:Oedo Line Azabu-juban Station concourse.jpg, Ticket gates, 2014 File:Toei-subway-E22-Azabu-juban-station-platform-20190909-203039.jpg, Platform, 2019 History The Namboku Line station opened ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zenpuku-ji
Zenpuku-ji (善福寺), also known as Azabu-san (麻布山), is a temple located in the Azabu district of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the oldest Tokyo temples, after Asakusa. History Founded by Kūkai in 824, Zenpuku-ji was originally a Shingon Buddhism, Shingon temple. Shinran visited the temple during the Kamakura period and brought the temple into the Jodo Shinshu sect. Under the 1859 Treaty of Amity and Commerce (United States-Japan), Treaty of Amity and Commerce, the first Tokyo legation of the United States, United States of America was established at Zenpuku-ji under Consul-General Townsend Harris. Features * There is a monument to Townsend Harris and the First American Legation in Tokyo. * A 750-year-old ginkgo tree at the entry to the cemetery, purportedly planted by Shinran and called "the upside down tree" (the largest ginkgo in Tokyo today), is a registered Monuments of Japan, National Natural Monument * A well in the approach to the shrine is supposed to have been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Railway Stations In Japan Opened In 2000
Rail transport (also known as train transport) is a means of transport using wheeled vehicles running in tracks, which usually consist of two parallel steel rails. Rail transport is one of the two primary means of land transport, next to road transport. It is used for about 8% of passenger and freight transport globally, thanks to its energy efficiency and potentially high speed.Rolling stock on rails generally encounters lower frictional resistance than rubber-tyred road vehicles, allowing rail cars to be coupled into longer trains. Power is usually provided by diesel or electric locomotives. While railway transport is capital-intensive and less flexible than road transport, it can carry heavy loads of passengers and cargo with greater energy efficiency and safety. Precursors of railways driven by human or animal power have existed since antiquity, but modern rail transport began with the invention of the steam locomotive in the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 19th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Azabu
is an area in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. Built on a marshy area of foothills south of central Tokyo, its coverage roughly corresponds to that of the former Azabu Ward, presently consisting of nine official districts: Azabu-Jūban, Azabudai, Azabu-Nagasakachō, Azabu-Mamianachō, Minami-Azabu, Nishi-Azabu, Higashi-Azabu, Moto-Azabu and Roppongi. It is known as one of Tokyo's most expensive and upscale residential districts with many artists, business people, and celebrities residing there. It is also known for its large foreign population, due in part to a number of foreign embassies present in the area. History The name Azabu literally means hemp cloth. Until the early Edo period, the area was agricultural. Archaeological evidence indicates that the area was inhabited as far back as the Jōmon period. The Juban Inari shrine (formerly known as Takechiyo Inari) was constructed in AD 712, the temple of Zenpuku-ji in 824, and the Hikawa Shrine in 939 (on orders of Minamoto ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temple University Japan
Temple University, Japan Campus (TUJ) is an international campus of Temple University (located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States). TUJ is located in Setagaya-ku, Tokyo and Fushimi-ku, Kyoto, Japan. It is the oldest and largest foreign university in Japan, with approximately 1,840 matriculated undergraduate students, of which approximately 40% are from Japan. The university offers degree programs, including an AA, BA, MSEd, in TESOL, PhD in Applied Linguistics, Master in Management (MiM), and LLM, and offers semester and year-long study abroad programs for U.S. undergraduate and law students. In addition, TUJ offers non-degree programs including the Academic English Program (AEP), Continuing Education, and Corporate Education. As of 2022, TUJ enrolled 2,071 degree-seeking students: 1,841 undergraduates and 230 graduate students and 8 Boyer College of Music and Dance (Music Therapy) students. Non-degree enrollment totals more than 2,155, including 1,205 Academic Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VANK
The Voluntary Agency Network of Korea (), abbreviated VANK (), is an Internet-based South Korean organization established by Park Ki-Tae in 1999, consisting of 120,000 South Korean members and 30,000 international members. VANK's membership consists mainly of junior high and high school students, although university students also participate. Activities Examples of campaigns they have conducted include organizing a protests movement to pressure Google and Apple Inc., Apple to label the Liancourt Rocks, Liancourt rocks as Dokto on their maps and spreading the story of the ancient kingdom of Goguryeo, and about ''Jikji'', the world's oldest extant book printed using movable metal type. VANK publishes reading materials, postcards, maps, and videos. VANK's self-built online database and published books with information about Korea are acknowledged by overseas universities as recommended learning resources about Korea. As a way to exchange cultures and connect with foreigners, VANK als ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mindan
Mindan (, Hanja: 民團), or the Korean Residents Union in Japan (, ), is one of two main organizations for Koreans living in Japan, the other being Chongryon. Mindan has ties to South Korea and was established in 1946 in Tokyo, Japan. Currently, among the 610,000 Korean residents in Japan who have not become naturalized Japanese citizens, 65% are members of Mindan, and another 25% are members of Chongryon. Mindan members prefer the modern South Korean term to be used when discussing Korea. Chongryon members, some of whom are North Korean fellow travellers, prefer the older term . Because ''Chōsen'' was the Korean term used during the Japanese rule of Korea and North Korea does not recognize ''Kankoku'', this causes enmity between the groups. History Mindan was established in 1946 as the . With the founding of South Korea in 1948 the name ''Chōsen'' was dropped, and the organization was reincorporated as . The Korean War (1950–1953) brought about a sharp division betwe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Snoopy Museum Tokyo
is a museum in Machida, Tokyo, based on Snoopy and characters from the ''Peanuts'' comic strip franchise by Charles M. Schulz. History The original Snoopy Museum Tokyo opened in Roppongi on 23 April 2016, and attracted almost a million visitors for the next two years. It closed its doors in 2018, the year which also marked the 50th anniversary of ''Peanuts'' being first introduced in Japan, after its final exhibition (21 April to 24 September 2018). The current incarnation of the museum opened at the Minami-machida Grandberry Park in Machida on 14 December 2019, as an official satellite of the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center in Santa Rosa, California. It reopened in February 2024 after renovations. Facilities The museum features a gift shop called Brown's Store and the Peanuts Café. Transportation The museum is accessible within walking distance of Minami-machida Grandberry Park Station along the Tokyu Railway Den-en-toshi Line. Publications The museum h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roppongi High School
is a public high school in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. It is a part of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education The Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education (東京都教育委員会 ''Tōkyō-to Kyōiku Iinkai'') is the board of education in Tokyo, Japan. The board directly manages most of the Public school (government funded), public secondary schoo .... References External links Roppongi High School Tokyo Metropolitan Government Board of Education schools High schools in Tokyo {{Japan-school-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TV Asahi
JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by The Asahi Shimbun Company. Its studios are located in Roppongi, Minato, Tokyo. TV Asahi is one of the "Big Six" broadcasters based in Tokyo, alongside Nippon Television, TBS, TV Tokyo, NHK General TV, and Fuji Television. History Pre-launch After NHK General TV, Nippon TV, and TBS TV were launched in 1953 and 1955, TV has become an important medium in Japan. However, most of the programs that were aired at that time were vulgar which caused well-known critic Sōichi Ōya to mention in a program that TV made people in Japan "a nation of 100 million idiots"; those criticisms already gave birth to the idea of opening an education-focused TV station. On February 17, 1956, the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications issued freq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
