Sakurada Gate

Sakurada Gate (桜田門, sakurada-mon) is a gate in the inner moat of Tokyo Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, Japan.

Sakurada Gate
桜田門
The gate in 2015
General information
Type	Gate
Location	Tokyo Imperial Palace
Town or city	Tokyo
Country	Japan
Coordinates	35.6785°N 139.7539°E / 35.6785; 139.7539
Known for	The Sakuradamon Incident of 1860 The Sakuradamon Incident of 1932

It was the location of the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860, in which Tairō Ii Naosuke was assassinated outside the gate by samurai of the Mito Domain and Satsuma Domain.

In 1932, it was the location of another assassination attempt, when Korean independence activist Lee Bong-chang attempted to kill Emperor Hirohito as his procession passed through the gate.

Opposite Sakurada Gate is the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department (akin to London's Scotland Yard), which is also metonymically called "Sakurada Gate".^[1]

Access

• Sakuradamon Station (Yūrakuchō Line)
• Kasumigaseki Station (Marunouchi, Hibiya, and Chiyoda lines)