- There are a lot of slopes in Akasaka.
- Akasaka mean Red Slopes in Japanese.
- There is the Akane mountain uphill.
- Mountain?
- Where is the mountain?
- Here.
- Altitude is low.
- 23 meters above sea level.
- What is there in the top of the mountain?
- The guest house for guests of the national government.
- The guard is severe.
- Akasaka was a fleshpot in old days.
- Fleshpot is Hanamachi in Japanese.
- Hanamachi?
- Is it Red-light district?
- This is a different.
- What's different?
- There are Geisha in Hanamachi.
- What is Geisha?
- The geisha plays music and sings a song.
- Entertainer?
- Yeah.
- This is the Toyokawa Inari.
- Geisha prayed this in old days.
- Did the girls want to become a geisha?
- I don't know.
- They were bought.
- Is it human traffic?
- Most popular Geisha Manryu was sold in the village of Ibaraki.
- She was 20 yen. 7 year old.
- 20 yen?
- Too cheap.
- It is old market price.
- I can't imagine it.
- She became the adopted child of the geisha dwelling.
- Was she a slave?
- She went to school.
- And, she made a love marriage.
- It is the same as a child.
- Manryu was the best beautiful woman in Japan.
- Well.
- Aha.
- Did you think that I am cuter than her?
- Uh-oh.
- I don't think.
- She had an atmosphere since she was small.
- I want to know more about the history of these women.
- Let's go to a temple called The temple thrown in.
Related spot
- Yoshiwara red light district
Oiran mean a high-class prostitute. When The Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923. 490 peoples died. - Foreign Girl Okichi
Townsend Harris is first Japanese American minister. When he got sick, he demanded a nurse from Japan. - Akasaka Press Center
There is a heliport of U.S. Armed Forces in Aoyama park. There is Press Center beside it. - Tameike Sannou
Chiyoda-ku hoped for Sannou Station. Minato-ku was Tameike Station. Adopted both opinions.