Has anyone been inside the US Embassy?

Where is the American Embassy located? Has anyone been inside and what is it like? Is that where the Ambassador lives and do they offer tours of the residence?

Yes I've been to the Embassy, to the consular sections where they deal with visas and passports.

Most other parts of the Embassy other then the consular sections are usually inaccessible to general public.

The ambassador's residence is next to the embassy.

Adjacent to the U.S. embassy, the U.S. ambassador's residence occupies about 64,900 sq. meters, including the residence and garden. The property, purchased from the Japanese government in 1925, was formerly the site of the residence of Prince Hirokuni Ito, which was destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923.

The current residence, constructed in 1931 by the American architects Van Burren Magonicle of New York and Antonin Raymond of Tokyo, was designed in an eclectic style with Moorish and Oriental influences, following the Hollywood style of the 1930s. As the first structure built by the U.S. government specifically as an ambassador's residence, the building used American materials wherever possible, including American walnut for the walls and Vermont marble for the floors.

Twelve times the size of the average American home, the two-story building has a main entrance with a roof shaped like the crown of the Statue of Liberty in New York, designed to welcome visitors entering the house.

To my knowledge, its only open for invited guests, not the general public.


The Embassy is in Akasaka, Tokyo:
http://tokyo.usembassy.gov/e/info/tinfo-map.html