Tokyo Midtown
Mixed-use complex of shops, restaurants, offices, and gardens built on a former military headquarters site.
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This guide to Tokyo Midtown traces the four decades this ground spent sealed off as Japan's Defense Agency headquarters, and further back to the Imperial Army camp that trained soldiers here starting in 1873, then housed American occupation troops after the war. It follows the roughly one hundred forty old camphor and cherry trees builders found still rooted in the ground when construction began in 2004. Stand under the camphors shading the plaza to hear the rest.
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