Like a nature reserve surrounded by Tokyo's concrete jungle, the Imperial Palace, or Kokyo, home to the Emperor and Empress, is a moated, otherworldly forested expanse where once stood a castle.
The castle housed generations of Tokugawa shoguns during the Edo Period (1603-1867).
The grounds now thrive with nature.
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