Sakurada Gate

Sakurada Gate, or Sakurada-mon (Japanese: 桜田門), is a gate at Tokyo Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, Japan. The Sakuradamon Incident (1860) took place here.

Sakurada Gate
桜田門
The gate in 2015
General information
TypeGate
LocationTokyo Imperial Palace
Town or cityTokyo
CountryJapan
Known forThe Sakuradamon Incident

Opposite the gate of Sakurada Gate is the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department , so it is also called "Sakurada Gate"[1].

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