Minato City (Tokyo)
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Minato is the Tokyo ward of Tokyo Tower, Roppongi, and Akasaka. On my first trip to Japan, in September 2024, my hotel was in Akasaka, and in the mornings, I walked its side streets, past a 7-Eleven advertising doughnuts fried in the store and through narrow streets of bars and restaurants as people headed in to work. I came back with my nephew at the end of the day on July 23, 2026, after an afternoon in Akihabara, to go up Tokyo Tower, 333 meters of orange and white steel finished in 1958, and watch the sun go down over the city.
Photos from Minato City (Tokyo)
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A 7-Eleven in Akasaka, frying its own doughnuts, whatever the spelling.
Akasaka’s side streets, as the office workers head in.
Tokyo Tower, 333 meters tall, from the foot of its legs.