I had a chance to take a imperial palace inner tour with my friends.
I booked inner palace tour 10 days before tour date, we registerd name of my friends and passpoet number.

This was a one part of castle such as donjon.this was formerly the castle where the Tokugawa shoguns resided.

This is a reception hall for VIP, in this time, our emperar did not come out to say hello.
The imperial family has lived here since the emperor Meiji moved from Kyoto to Tokyo.

When we look at history, we see that the period when any real power could be claimed for the emperor was indeed rather short.for the most part imperial power has been no more than a matter of form.

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