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01/10/2011
02/27/2021

Apartment in Meguro

Palace Royal?Chojamaru?#203 Agent commission FREE! No Key Money! Free Rent 1 Month! Bed Rooms: 3 Floor Area: 197.43 sqm / 2125.19 sqft Address:? 21-7-2, Kamiosaki, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo Access:?6?minutes walk to?Meguro Station /?Yamanote Line,?Mita Line,?Namboku Line Completion: Feb. 1988 Structure: Steel-reinforced Concrete Rent: JPY800,000/month Management?Fee: JPY0 Key Money:?JPY0 Deposit:?4 month Parking: Available Pets:?Not Allowed Palace Royal Chojamaru is located in Meguro, 3 minutes to Ebisu and 5 minutes to Shibuya by train. The apartment is in a residential area, a few minutes walk along the railway line. It is easy to find Palace Royal Chojamaru, for this tall tree will be a landmark 🙂 Entrance is on the B1 floor. There is a small garden on the side of the entrance. The lobby, looking like a drawing-room. Courtyard. There is a stained glass light on the ceiling of the 2nd floor elevator hall. Room entrance. The large light court window makes the whole corridor bright even without turning any light on 🙂 Rest room. There are no bidet nor heated toilet seat. Living dining room. A semicircular balcony. The random-shaped tile floor adds the room a touch of class. Dining room. Kitchen, with 4 induction cookers, and a dish washer. There […]

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11/28/2010
02/27/2021

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Art Museum

Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum (??延根??遵梱???臂?茵?蕕?) is a museum in Meguro, Tokyo.? There?are temporary?exhibitions 5-6 times an year, but the main exhibition of this museum is the building and the garden itself. The building of the museum was built in 1933, as the mansion of Asakanomiya (???薤?絎?), member of the Imperial family.? The style is Art Deco, which stormed Europe in the 1920s to 30s. The building was mainly designed by a French designer, and many of the interior accessories are from France and other countries.??Parts of the building were designed by a Japanese architect who belonged to the Imperial Household Ministry, and added some Japanese touch. Teien (綺???), of Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum, means garden.? This fact shows that the garden is the main attraction. The garden consists of the grass garden, Japanese garden, and Western garden.? Various flowers will amuse you throughout the seasons.? There are outdoor exhibitions, such as carvings, and a tea cermony house too. Tokyo Metropolitan Teien Museum Location: Meguro Website: http://www.teien-art-museum.ne.jp/info/e_index.html (Eng) — Higherground Co.,Ltd. 2-8-3 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan TEL:03-6459-2230 HP:http://www.higherground.co.jp/ TOP PAGE:?https://livingtokyo.net/

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10/07/2010
03/01/2021

World of “Spirited Away”

Spirited Away (????????絨????????????) might be one of the most famous of recent Japanese films. This film is a 2001 animated film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki(絎???薈?) and produced by Studio Ghibli (??鴻?帥?吾???吾?????). It is an adventure of a ten-year-old girl in a world of spirits and monsters. The film received many awards, including the second Oscar ever awarded for Best Animated Feature, the first anime film to win an Academy Award, and the first (and so far the only) non-English speaking animation to win. The film also won the Golden Bear at the 2002 Berlin International Film Festival and is among the top ten in the BFI list of the 50 films you should see by the age of 14. When Hayao Miyazaki?creates the stage of his films, he often uses?actual scenes as a model.? One of those models exist in Meguro, Tokyo. This room is the model of Yubaba(羚???紿?)’s room in the film. If you are curious where this room is, it is in Meguro Gajoen (??????????????). Meguro Gajoen started as a high-class Japanese and Chinese restaurant in the early 20th century.? Presently, it?is?a wedding center, museum, and restaurant. Restaurants are open everyday, but if you are to […]