From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Marker in Nihonbashi from
which distances are measured in Japan. Graves of 47 Ronin at
Sengakuji Temple. See year 1701. Sakuradamon Gate of Edo Castle
where Ii Naosuke was assassinated in 1860. The Hoei Crater,
visible to the right of the peak of Mt. Fuji, was the location
of the 1707 eruption that spewed ash as far as built in 1958. It
was built from recycled military tanks. The eastern mainland
part of Tokyo occupies land that, together with the modern-day
Saitama Prefecture, the city of Kawasaki and the eastern part of
Yokohama, made up Musashi, one of the provinces under the
ritsuryō system. This was established in the 7th century. The
central part of the 23 special wards lay in Toshima, Ebara,
Adachi, and Katsushika Districts. Western Tokyo District.
Tokyo's oldest Buddhist temple, Sensō-ji in Asakusa, is said to
date from the year 645. In the Kamakura period, the village of
Edo was established. The construction of Edo Castle by Ōta
Dōkan, a vassal of Uesugi Mochitom