Tokyo has a well trained police force with booths set up through out the city in order to protect and serve the local communities as well as tourist.

Upon entry of Japan all foreign visitors will have their photograph and finger print taken, those under the age of 16 are exempt.

Since Japan is an island it is surrounded by potential natural disaster. Fortunately only a few months out of the year generally pose a threat. Typhoon season is the most common and is known to occur from June to October.

Other information regarding seasonal changes and precautionary measures you can take are provided by the “Japan Meteorological Agency” which will provide the latest information in many languages including English.

Some restrictions include quantity of medicine, which is usually up to a month’s supply, the exception to the rule is completing a form called a Yakkan Shoumei, which will allow you to carry more medicine with you for an extended period of time.

The policy on medicine is very strict, many prescriptions and common over the counters drugs such as allegery and sinus medicine wont be allowed into Japan, a list of restricted medication can be provided by the Kanto-Shinetsu Regional Bureau of Health and Welfare.

A list of recommended vaccinations for tourists who are planning to travel to

Tokyo is provided by The Center for disease control and prevention (CDC)

online, or ask your local doctor.

St. Luke`s International Hospital

Japan Red Cross Medical Center

International Catholic Hospital

Last supper was an Oil and tempera on plaster painting

Created from 1495-1498 by Leonardo Di Vinci

The school of Athens’s painting was created for the Stanza della segnatura Rome, Italy. Painted by Raphael.

Also requested by Pope Julius II, but for the decoration of the papal apartments in the Apostolic Palace of the Vatican.

Was a Fresco style painting created from 1509-1511

The ceiling paintings of the Sistine chapel was created by Michelangelo

Rome , Italy from 1508-1512.

Ceiling was made up of 300 individual Fresco paintings.

Work was requested by Pope Julius II.

Is said to help restore Rome to its former glory.

Work was commissioned by Pope Paul the 3^rd. 

A 48ft tall Fresco painting for the Sistine Chapel in Rome, Italy created by Michelangelo.

A very strong symbolic painting casting judgment day upon all humans.

Was created from 1534-1541.

Assumption of the Virgin, was an oil on wood painting and was created for the main altar piece of Sanata Maria Gloriosa dei Frari in Venice, Italy.

Commissioned by the prior of the Franciscan basilica.

This work of art was created from 1516-1518 by Titian.

The descent from the cross is an oil on wood painting. Created by Jacopo Pontormo and was completed in 1528. Created for the Capponi chapel at the church of Santa Felicita in Florence.

Last Supper created by Tintoretto in 1594. This painting was an oil on canvas painting. Created for Andre Palladio’s church of San Giorgio Maggiore.

The fall of man was an engraving and was created in 1504. This art work was created by Durer and was a centennial gift of Landon T. Clay.

The French Ambassadors was created by Holbein in 1533. It was an oil on tempera painting. He was a painter for King Henry the 8^th. Curently located in the national Gallery in London.

Hunters in the snow was created by Breugel the Elder in 1565. This was an oil on wood painting. Known as most succesfull netherlandish painter in mid-16^th century.

Elevation of the cross was created by Peter Paul Rubens in 1610. This painting was an oil on wood. He became court painter to the dukes of Mantua , friend of King Philip IV (r. 1621–1665) of Spain and his adviser on art collecting, painter to Charles I (r. 1625–1649) of England and Marie de’ Medici (1573–1642) of France, and permanent court painter to the Spanish governors of Flanders. Located in Antwerp cathedral.

View of Haarlem was created by Jacob Van Ruisdael in 1670. Painting was an oil on canvas. Created for the open market.

David was created by Michelangelo from 1501-1504. Made from marble and is located in Signoria Florence, Italy. The patron was Piero Soderini who was the mayor of Florence. The sculpture was created for Florence cathedral.

The architectural design was created by Bramante who was originally a painter in about 1502. The use of dome was implemented and was designed to resemble the round templates of Rome, Italy. The name Tempietto means little temple. Stands alongside the church of San Pietro in Montorio. Work patroned by the Duke of Milan.

New saint Peter’s Church Bramante and Michelangelo were the two main designers. Design was created between 1546-1564. Was designed to be a replacement church for the Constantinian basilican church of old saint peter’s. Work was patroned by Pope Julius the second and later Pope Paul the third. The dome itself is hemispherical. Bramante’s ambitious design called for a boldly sculptural treatment of the walls and piers under the dome. His organization of the interior space was complex in the extreme, with the intricate symmetries of a crystal. It is possible to detect in the plan some nine interlocking crosses, five of them supporting domes. The scale was titanic. According to sources, Bramante boasted he would place the dome of the Pantheon (FIGS. 10-49 to 10-51) over the Basilica Nova.

Villia Rotonda Palladio’s most famous villa, Villa Rotonda, near Vicenza, is exceptional because the architect did not build it for an aspiring gentleman farmer but for a retired monsignor who wanted a villa for social events. Work began in 1550-1570. Idea was a centralized floor plan. Palladio planned and designed Villa Rotonda, located on a hilltop, as a kind of belvedere (literally “beautiful view”; in architecture, a structure with a view of the countryside or the sea), without the usual wings of secondary buildings. It has a central plan with four identical facades and projecting porches oriented to the four compass points. Each facade of the Villa Rotonda resembles a Roman Ionic temple. In placing a traditional temple porch in front of a dome-covered interior, Palladio doubtless had the Pantheon in mind as a model. But, as Bramante did in his Tempietto, Palladio transformed his model into a new design that has no parallel in antiquity. Each of the villa’s four porches can be used as a platform for enjoying a different view of the surrounding landscape. In this design, the central dome covered rotunda logically functions as a kind of circular platform from which visitors may turn in any direction for the preferred view.

Francesco Borromini, designer of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane, Rome, Italy, 1638–1641. The side walls pulsate in a way that reverses the facade’s movement. The molded, dramatically lit space appears to flow from entrance to alta. San Carlo is a hybrid of a Greek cross (a cross with four arms of equal length) and an oval, with a long axis between entrance and apse. The side walls move in an undulating flow that reverses the facade’s motion. Vigorously projecting columns define the space into which they protrude just as much as they accent the walls attached to them. Capping this molded interior space is a deeply coffered oval dome that seems to float on the light entering through windows hidden in its base. Rich variations on the basic theme of the oval, dynamic relative to the static circle, create an interior that flows from entrance to altar, unimpeded by the segmentation so characteristic of Renaissance buildings.