Visiting Tower of London

I went to Tower of London yesterday with my friend and teacher. After getting off the train, we went to there on foot because fortunately,  it was lovely weather to walk!!! We were lucky! Yeah! On the way there, I saw Big Ben, which is very popular and symbol in London I think, London bridge, which is occasionally opened to let big ships go through the River Thames, and London eye, which you can see overview of London.

Now, I would like to introduce the topic I recommend seeing inside of Tower of London.



First is the Crown jewel exhibition witch displays many types of crown which the King and Queen wore at the opening of the new parliament. The crown which has the most amount of diamonds is The Imperial State Crown. This is worn by the Queen Elizabeth and it has 2,800 diamonds!! It is amazing!!! It seems that the crown is the most famous and powerful symbol in British monarchy. The head of parliament in Japan doesn't wear these precious. So, the British culture and history is far deeper and older than Japan.

Second is the coronation spoon!!! It is really gorgeous!! I can't believe that I would spend too much money on it. However, this spoon is worth spending much money. This spoon is made in 12th century, so it is nearly as same age as Tower of London.

( Nobody can take a photo in this exhibition, so I quoted from the official website of Tower of London.)






Third is Coins and Kings. Inside of this museum, you can learn about how they used to make money. They used to make money by extracting the metal, melting it, and arranging the shape. They used to spend much time to make it, so it was very hard work, but now people make money by machines. So it is more useful than that.

Tower of London, which has very deep history and culture in England, is almost 1,000 years ago. Japan doesn't have these culture and history, and the head of parliament never have the Crown and Sceptre!! The Japanese culture is definitely as different as British culture.