🕯️ LEGENDS GARDEN
🚉 Hachikō
Akita · Forever: Shibuya Station, Tokyo, 1935
Lives in Legends Garden
He met his owner at Shibuya Station every evening. One day in 1925 his owner died at work and never came. Hachikō returned to the station at the same time, every day, for nine more years. His statue is still there, and people still leave flowers at it a century later.
What they do
Sits at the platform edge, upright and still, watching for a train.
The most patient animal that has ever lived. Waited nine years on the chance.
Lore
- ★He kept returning for nine years, nine months and fifteen days after his owner's death
- ★His bronze statue at Shibuya is one of the most common meeting points in Tokyo
- ★He was present at the unveiling of his own statue in 1934
- ★He is the reason the loyal dog is an entire genre of story in Japan
Helping the real one
No verified way to support this animal exists.
We will not invent one.
He died in 1935. No fund exists in his name and we will not invent one.
Where this comes from
- GO TOKYO (Tokyo Convention & Visitors Bureau) Visit the Hachiko Statue: history and where to find it ↗
- Wikipedia Hachiko biography, 1923-1935 ↗
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