Tokyo Imperial Palace

Staff must judge whether requests are genuinely religious and may deny those disrupting order, but say accommodation can bring peace of mind and ease operations.

The five-kilometre loop around the Imperial Palace draws thousands of runners each morning, but social media complaints that runners endanger pedestrians, particularly as tourist numbers grow, have prompted Chiyoda Ward to examine the issue.

Existing guidelines prohibit listening to music and running too fast.

Depending on its findings, the ward may add security cameras and more warning signs.

It's really incredible.

imperial palace in tokyo even if you don't get a ticket to go in just walk around it the grounds are immaculate shibuya crossing it's the busiest crosswalk in the world intersection in the world we talked about that when i was there in march and then the tsukiji outer market which is a fish market go back i think it was in august i talked about it on one of the podcasts excellent street food, really fun to see.

It's a great market.

Then in Osaka, the Kuromon Market, which is a lot like the one in Tokyo, but it's a little bit bigger, more stalls, more things to do.

It's very personal.

They're making the food right in front of you.

And then if you make it to Osaka, definitely do a day in Kyoto, go to the Kyoto Imperial Palace, the Fushimi Inari Shrine, which you've probably seen all over Instagram.

It's those big orange arches.

It's pretty great.

Finally, looking at The Japan Times, authorities in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward are actively cracking down on aggressive runners at the Imperial Palace.

Oh, the Strava runners.

Yes.

Meanwhile, in Japan, The Japan Times reports a bizarre civic conflict in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward.

The local government is currently considering deploying measures to crack down on runners circling the Imperial Palace.

Because of the collisions, right?

Yeah.

I actually was doing 24, 25 pull-ups before that was the standard.

And we'd go take a van to the Imperial Palace, Tokyo Palace, and it was 3.2 miles around the palace.

And we'd run that.

He's got a green leaf cigar in his mouth running three miles.

After the antique market, consider stretching your walk to Kokyo Gaien.

It's a free plaza in front of the Imperial Palace, where you can enjoy the view toward Nijubashi Bridge.

We're introducing the view from the outer garden here, not a visit inside the palace.

It's listed as always open.

The very location of their office helped underscore the company's venerable history.

Right in the heart of Marunouchi on the Nichome block just a little distance from the outer gardens of the Imperial Palace, the part that's publicly accessible, and basically across the street from Tokyo Station itself.

Though Mitsubishi had preserved and still preserves its original headquarters building, which is one of those gorgeous examples of that Meiji-era architecture, mixing some Japanese motifs with Victorian style red brick buildings, by the '70s, that building was not in use anymore as a headquarters office.

It had been replaced by a pair of concrete office buildings.

Some things that I want to hit that I haven't.

The Imperial Palace, the Nintendo Museum, the Railway Museum.

Railway Museum, you

say? Yeah.

Okay, so Imperial Palace.

There's a samurai museum that I talked about earlier.

I'd

Trish is right now taking part by... getting into the live chat, watching YouTube.

She's a part of the M&M Extra experience today, and she's looking out her hotel window at the Imperial Palace.

That gives me some chills.

That's so neat.