先日母と街歩きをしてきました。健脚の母なので、しっかり5時間で2万歩ほど歩きました。
今日は英語チラシや英語ガイドブックを参考に、観光名所を英語で紹介してみようと思います。
Here we go
UENO SHINOBAZU EXIT
下町風俗資料館 / The Shitamachi Museum
This museum re-creates life during the Meiji and Taisho periods( 1868-1926).
Take off your shoes and look inside an old tenement house or sweet shop
while soaking up the atmpsphere of shitamachi. ￥300 English leafletあり
不忍池/蓮池 / Shinobazu Pond / Hasu Pond
In spring there are a lot of cherry blossoms along with the pond.
In summer you can see the beautiful lotus flowers in the Hasu pond.
There is the Benten Hall behind the pond over there.
弁天堂 / Benten Hall
The temple is dedicated to Benzaiten, the Buddhist goddess of the arts,wisdom
and fortune.
It is one of the power spot of Tokyo, where young women come to do a wish.
塚 / monument
弁天堂の脇にはたくさんのユニークな塚があります。参考になるサイトをみつけました。
五條天神社/ Gojo Shrine
The person who wants to cure illness visits Gojo Shrine.
花園稲荷神社 / Hanazono Inari Shrine
It is a small scale of famous Fushimi Inari in Kyoto.
In Inari, God of the business is worshiped.
上野大仏 / Ueno Daibutu
The person who prays for school success visits Ueno Daibutu.
五重塔/ Five-storied Pagpda
上野東照宮 / Toshogu Shirine
It is a small scale of famous Toshogu in Nikko.
Toshogu means "light of the east" and refers to 200 shrines build across Japan
to enshirine the deified spirit of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder and first shogun
of Tokugawa shogunate, which ruled Japan from 1603-1868.
東京都美術館/ Tokyo Metoropolitan Art Museum
東京国立博物館/The Tokyo National Museum
Holds the world's largest collection of Japanese art including pottery,
sculpture, samurai swords, ukiyo-e, and kimono.
国立科学博物館 / The National Science Museum
D51形蒸気機関車/ D51 forms sｔeam locomotive
国立西洋美術館 / The National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo
A historically important modern building designed by 20th century French architect
Le Corbusier(1887-1965).
東京文化会館/ Tokyo Bunka Kaikan
In Tokyo Bunka Kaikan, classical conserts, ballet and opera are held.
清水観音堂 / Kiyomizu Hall
It's miniature of the famous Kiyomizu-dera in Kyoto. This red temple is one of
the Tokyo's oldest original structures: established in 1631 and its present
position since 1698, it has servived every disaster come its way. Hiroshige
painted the Famous Ukiyoe "Tsuki no matsu" as a view from the Kiyomizu Hall.
アメ横商店街 / Ameya-yokocho
Ameya-yokocho started as a black market post world war Ⅱ
when American goods were sold here.
Now the streets are crowded with stores offering clothes, fresh fish and
dried food.
英語で観光名所を説明するのは難しいですね～
。
上野散策は休憩無しで、ゆっくり歩いて2時間。
上野公園内には、お手洗い・スタバ・パークサイド カフェ・軽食スタンド・レストラン等が
各所にあるので、歩き疲れたら気ままに休憩ができます
天気の良い日には、正岡子規記念球場で、爽やかな野球少年を眺められます
寒くなければ、噴水前のベンチで珈琲片手に休憩するのもよし
広々とした敷地で
時が止まったかのような贅沢な時間が過ごせますよ～。
次は浅草編です。
