The practice of horse-drawn carriages for newly appointed foreign ambassadors has resumed after a three-year hiatus by the Japanese Imperial Court Administration, reports NHK television on March 8.
The practice was stopped due to the announcement of a coronavirus infection pandemic. Then the officers decided to avoid the accumulation of spectators on the route of the diligence.
Now, the agency has taken up the tradition and met the new Fiji ambassador at Tokyo station and took him in a carriage to the Imperial Palace.
The one and a half kilometer journey took the procession about 10 minutes. At the end of the procedure, the ambassadors present their credentials to the emperor.
According to representatives of the court leadership, the Fijian ambassador was pleased with the trip. Tourists and office workers in central Tokyo took pictures of a carriage passing by on the road.
Source: Rossa Primavera
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