City walk · Marunouchi, Chiyoda · Japan
Ōta Dōkan
1432–1486 · a real person
a fifteenth-century warrior-builder, dry and watchful, proud of his earthworks, slow to admit tenderness for what others made of them
Read what Ōta Dōkan says
They cast me in bronze and sat me down in Yūrakuchō, facing a city I never saw. I am Ōta Dōkan. In 1457 I put a castle on the bluff above a muddy cove here, and a town gathered under it like smoke under a roof — and then, in 1486, someone I served had me killed, and my town went on without me. I have been given one hour to find out what became of it. Walk with me, because I cannot move from this plinth alone.
5.0 (1)88 min · 2.9 km · 8 stops · medium
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Partly shadedBest time to walk: Late afternoon — the Marunouchi avenues are cool by four, Tokyo Station's brick goes warm at sunset, and the Imperial Palace East Garden is closed Mondays and Fridays, so keep to the outer plaza and moats then.
