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Inside Hibiya park, restaurant among the forest
Spring
Hibiya Park opened in 1903 as the first Western-style park in Japan. Hibiya Matsumotoro restaurant opened at the same time. It soon gained a reputation as a stylish restaurant, and it became very popular among Mobo (modern-boys) and Moga (modern-girls) who liked to dress up and eat curry and drink coffee. Matsumotoro stood natural disasters, riots and war and it still serves it signature curry in the present times.
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Hibiya Park is located on the spot where the palace of a powerful feudal lord once stood. You can still see the stone walls from the Edo period and also part of the moat, which today is a pond where gazelles, herons and ducks come to rest.