Phone +81 3-3501-6428 | Created 1903 | |
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Area 161,636.66 square metres (39.94129 acres) Address Hibiyakoen, 千代田区 Tokyo 100-0012, Japan Hours Open today · Open 24 hoursSaturdayOpen 24 hoursSundayOpen 24 hoursMondayOpen 24 hoursTuesdayOpen 24 hoursWednesdayOpen 24 hoursThursdayOpen 24 hoursFridayOpen 24 hours Similar Hibiya Station, Tokyo Imperial Palace, Edo Castle, Hibiya Public Hall, Kanda Shrine Profiles | ||
Hibiya park tokyo an elegant urban oasis
Hibiya Park (日比谷公園, Hibiya Kōen) is a park in Chiyoda City, Tokyo, Japan. It covers an area of 161,636.66m2 between the east gardens of the Imperial Palace to the north, the Shinbashi district to the southeast and the Kasumigaseki government district to the west.
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The land was occupied by the estates of the Mōri clan and Nabeshima clan during the Edo period, and was used for army maneuvers during the Meiji period. It was converted to a park and opened to the public on June 1, 1903.
On September 5, 1905 the park was the scene of the Hibiya Incendiary Incident a major city-wide riot that erupted in protest of the terms of the Treaty of Portsmouth which ended the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905.
The park is famous for the Shisei Kaikan (市政会館), a brick building built in Gothic style in 1929, which once housed the Domei Tsushin state wire service and its postwar successors Kyodo News and Jiji Press.
The park is also known for its open-air concert venue, Hibiya Open-Air Concert Hall (日比谷野外音楽堂), and for its tennis courts (for which reservations are hotly contested due to their proximity to the financial and government districts).