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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majestic" data-source="post: 804772" data-attributes="member: 61235"><p>A very nice article. I think the palace grounds and remains are a great treasure, though often overlooked and a bit inscrutable for visitors. For example the lovely Fujimi-yagura is maybe one of the first historic buildings visitors to Tokyo may see (excluding the wonderfully-renovated Tokyo Station), but it is unapproachable and isolated - hard to get to and giving the visitor very little in return other than photographs from a distance. It is only because of this article that I found out it is actually a fairly recent reconstruction. Still, it is a charming building, and one wonders what it looks like on the inside. If visitors could go inside it would be much more interesting. Since it is a reconstruction, it ought to accommodate some tourist traffic, but currently it is just a curio, sitting on the rock wall with indifference and an air of abandonment. Who worked there, what were conditions like for the guards there, what were the different storeys for, etc.? Same for Sakurada-mon and the other edifices - lovely to look at, but they remind me of furniture with plastic covers on them, or china that is locked forever away inside a cabinet, never to be held or used, and only to be passively admired. Anyway, interesting article!</p></blockquote><p></p>