Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyobashi

Rivaling the famous Nihonbashi bridge, the Kyobashi bridge maintained its significance as the first bridge to be crossed on the Tokaido road, a highway stretching from Nihonbashi towards Kyoto. Hiroshige Utagawa's ukiyo-e wood block print “Kyobashi Take-gashi” from his famed series “Meisho Edo Hyakkei” (One Hundred Famous Views of Edo) was created as a symbol of this significance. In reverence of this history and culture, Mitsui Garden Hotel Kyobashi strives to express the history of Kyobashi...