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On their plus side, natto are highly nutritious, high in protein, calcium, manganese and B-complex vitamins, among others.


These are fermented soybeans with a slimy consistency and distinctive odor that many non-natives, and even some Japanese people, find less than appealing. Most Japanese would agree the food most associated with Mito is natto. Kobun-tei is open from 9:00 a.m., and charges a separate fee for admission, ¥200 for adults and ¥100 for seniors. Admission: ¥300 for adults, ¥150 for seniors and children.

Garden hours are 6:00 to 19:00 between mid-February to end-September, and 7:00 to 18:00 from October to early-February. If you don't have an app to summon a taxi, the parking lot custodian receptionist will assist in summoning one. Beside the parking lot is nearby stop for the bus that runs to Mito Station. Facing the south is an engawa (porch) where you can soak up the sunshine while enjoying views of the garden.Ī tip: It is strongly suggested you enter and exit the park by the Onarimon gate, which is near the geographic center of the garden and has easier access to the Kobun-tei.
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Remove your footwear and place them in the provided plastic bag and follow the arrow signs along the narrow corridors, where you can view a series of small rooms, each with stunning floral decorations on various seasonal themes. Kodokan translates loosely as "Mission Hall." Promising young samurai of the Mito domain came to the Kodokan from the age of 15, and studied such subjects as medicine, mathematics, astronomy, Confucianism, history, music and martial arts.īe sure to save time to visit the Kobun-tei pavilion, a photogenic three-story teahouse that's fully fit for a feudal lord. Shogun loyalists also occupied the Kodokan during the Boshin civil war in 1868, and the main gate (the large gate to the left of the entrance that is not in use) still bears visible bullet holes from that conflict. A year later they attacked the British legation in Takanawa. In 1860, militant Mito samurai plotted the assassination of the highest administrative official to the Shogun. Kodokan's history overlapped with the so-called Bakumatsu Era, one of Japan's most tempestuous periods, which lasted from the mid-1850s through 1868. Toward the end of the Tokugawa Era, Kodokan became a center for one of the political movements and a driving force in the Meiji Restoration until it was closed in 1872. Mitogaku was expanded by the 9th-generation clan leader Tokugawa Nariaki (1800-1860), who in 1841 established the Kodokan as the clan school. Unlike many period dramas on TV, the series emphasized kanzen choaku (rewarding good and punishing evil) and eschewed gratuitous violence, making it safe for prime-time family viewing.Ī Meiji-era photo of students at the Kodokan.Īnother branch of education during the pre-modern era was Mitogaku (Mito learning), which owes its beginnings to the aforementioned Mito Komon, who dedicated his twilight years to scholarship.
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But it was a TV series that ran between 1969 to 2019 which made Mito Komon a household name.
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He was born just a few minutes' walk from Mito station, where a signboard in front of a Shinto shrine that's dedicated to him marks his birthplace.Īround 1690 Mitsukuni withdrew from public life to a hermitage where he spent the remaining decade of his life working on the Dainippon-Shi, a massive history of Japan that took some 250 years to complete, and was officially published in 1906.įilms about Komon’s incognito rovings about the country date back to the first years of the silent movie era. Komon was the literary name of Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628-1701), a grandson of dynasty founder Tokugawa Ieyasu. Just to the right of the exit from JR Mito station is the statue (above) of the man who, thanks to a long-running series on TBS television, is perhaps the most famous denizen of the province: Mito Komon, whose image is flanked by two loyal servants named Suke and Kaku (on the left and right, respectively).
