East Gardens of the Imperial Palace

The keep of the Honmaru burned in the great Meireki fire of 1657 and was never rebuilt, but its stone base, the Fujimi-yagura turret and the Fujimi-tamon defence house remain. The Ninomaru has a pond garden and a woodland planted in the style of the Musashino plain. The Sannomaru holds the Museum of the Imperial Collections, and the Ōte-mon, the former main gate of the castle, is one of the entrances. A lookout above the Shirotori moat gives a view of the office towers of Ōtemachi and Marunouchi.