Mito

The other day we went up to Mito, the capital city of Ibaraki prefecture. Mito is pretty famous because it's where one line of the Tokugawa family lived during the Edo period (the Tokugawa family being the ruling family of Japan for over two centuries). It's also where a lot of important stuff happened leading up to the overthrow of that family and the modernization of Japan. These first set of pictures were taken at a sort of "summer cottage" for Tokugawa Nariaki, called Koubuntei.