Saigoyama Park

#thingstodo A small park with a commanding view taken after the name of a famous samurai and renowned statesman in the early Meiji era, Marshal Admiral Saigo Judo (Tsugumichi). Judo bought a vast land including the park about 150 years ago for building a residence of his elder brother, Saigo Takamori. Takamori is also well known as one of the biggest figures in the Meiji Restoration as well as the “Last Samurai” later died in the largest rebellion against his own new government. So, Takamori never made to this place and his younger brother eventually built his secondary mansion and guest house with various types of gardens and ponds that even had the Imperial visits. Now, the glory is told only by the park’s name, remained garden rocks from Saigo’s homeland Kagoshima, the commemorative resource centre nearby and Saigo Judo’s Meiji-era style mansion building moved and rebuilt in Museum Meiji-Mura in Aichi. You can see Mt. Fuji, especially beautifully with the snow on top, on a clear winter day beyond Tokyo buildings. The adjacent café restaurant is cool, too.