- This is the Yoyogi park.
- Do you know this monument?
- I can't read it.
- Please read to the left from the right.
- The plane flies for the first time in Japan.
- Here is the place.
- When is it?
- December 19, 1910.
- Who did fly an airplane for the first time in the world?
- The Wright brothers in America.
- It is in 1903.
- Everyone knows that.
- Do you know Chuhachi Ninomiya?
- Who?
- He thought about an airplane in 1889.
- It is earlier than the Wright brothers.
- He has not yet spurted.
- Mr.Ninomiya achieved to flew unmanned plane to 36 meters in 1891.
- He wanted to develop an engine.
- But he didn't have an expense.
- Money's what it's all about.
- The Wright brothers succeeded in 1903.
- The human flew in the sky at last.
- In 1910.
- Kumazou Hino was dispatched in Germany.
- Is he a military man?
- Yoshitoshi Tokugawa was dispatched in France.
- Two countries?
- Two people became a pilot.
- And, took airplane back.
- Made in Germany and France.
- December 19, 1910.
- They tried to fly airplane here.
- How are the outcomes?
- Airplane made in France flew
- to 3,000 meters in four minutes.
- Good job.
- Airplane made in Germany flew
- to 1,000 meters in one minute.
- Which one is better?
- Made in France.
- This story is over.
- Okey, Next is a story about a famous meeting place at Shibuya Station.
Related spot
- Washington Heights
GHQ demanded that Japan built the house of 20000 U.S. soldiers family. Japan built 827 houses in Yoyogi. - Antifire stone
MO-YA-U means help each other. Niijima has a volcano. This is the stone made of magmas formed by cooling. - Dogen of the robbers
Dougen Oowada was Samurai Yoshimori Wada's descendant. Was he a buddhist priest? Or a bandit? - Heihachiro TOGO
He played an active part in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904. Togo's fleet have defeated the Baltic Fleet.