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No.150 Kasumigaseki (The governmental offices' district)

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).

In front of Kasumigaseki station
The building behind "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs"


If saying Kasumigaseki, it means the central organ of government town where the government officer and the carrier bureaucrat who is moving Japan are working. Only the government office building of the government office relation is built in the place of the place name, Kasumigaseki, and subway Kasumigaseki station, too, is the station as it is for the governmental offices' district. About 30 pieces of central government agencies gather and are forming the center of the public administration and the judiciary in Japan. Because the Ministry of Foreign Affairs advanced in 1881, the governmental offices' district at Kasumigaseki has started. The origin of the place name at Kasumigaseki depends on this place before and the barrier depends on being organized.
As for the circumference, the heavy guard which depends on the policeman is done and to enter a building, the show of the identification card is demanded. It is bustling on weekdays by the people but on the weekend when the government office becomes a recess, it makes deserted.


The joint government building 2 number building


The building (the left) behind is a joint government building 3 number building.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Maritime Safety Agency enter.



To enter a building, the identification card is necessary.


The exit which is doing a direct connection from subway Kasumigaseki station to the joint government building 2 number building
But the shutter is closed in the holiday
With the watch standing at the time of the office hour
It is doing the check of the identification card.



The Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries which was seen from (the national road 1 number) Sakurada ’Ê"RI"
The high building is a joint government building 5 number building.


The relaying a broadcast of the news is well seen "Ministry of Finance (Old Ministry of Finance)".


The next of "Kasumigaseki" is "Nagata-cho" and the Diet Building, too, is the neighborhood at once.


In a row by the ministries and agencies name of the exit guideboard in subway Kasumigaseki station



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