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Rikugien Gardens

4.0

55 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Bunkyou-ku Honkomagome 6

Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, who served the shogunate as a Tairo-kaku (“Great Elder”) during the era of Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth-generation Tokugawa shogun, created this garden in an area full of daimyo residences. With its undulating paths and well-planned design, the Japanese garden is particularly famous for its azaleas and weeping sakura close to the garden entrance. The gardens are lit up at night during the spring when cherry blossoms are in bloom and again in autumn when the foliage is turning colors. The garden evokes scenery of Kishu (in Wakayama) with the middle Daisensui Pond and its Nakanoshima Island. Many foreign tourists enjoy visiting Rikugien.

Located in the Rikugien Garden, this was a perfect little stop to sit, rest and rejuvenate. While I loved the garden this tea house was a great break with a beautiful view. It was a little crowded...
Asukayama Park

4.0

265 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Ouji 1-1-3

A public park located close to Oji Station in Oji, Kita City, Tokyo. There are some 600 Yoshino cherries, sato-zakura cherries, and other cherry tree varieties growing on the grounds, and the park is a popular destination for enjoying cherry blossom viewing in the spring. A monorail-style lift known as the Ascargot operates in the park; visitors can ride it for free and enjoy the leisurely ride to the top of Asukayama.

I joined Heygo live streamed tour of this park with the wonderful guide, Eriko. She is a charming and gentle lady who showed us the local park for sakura viewing away from the crowd. She also...
Arakawa Park

4.0

105 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Nishiogu 6-35-11

Lovely little theme park for family with young kids. We have problem at the ticket machine as it was only in Japanese but the staff kindly help us. We got the whole day ticket, so we can ride as much...
Oji-jinja Shrine

4.0

74 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Oujihonchou 1-1-12

A Shinto shrine located in Ojihon-cho, Kita City, Tokyo. The shrine is dedicated to Izanagi no Mikoto and four other principal Shinto gods termed the Oji Okami. The majority of the grounds were destroy during the war but were rebuilt as part of post-war recovery activities. A large gingko tree on the grounds avoided being damaged by the war and is designated a Natural Monument by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Seki-jinja Shrine, a subordinate ancestor shrine on the shrine's grounds, is said to provide aid to those seeking help with their hair as well as music and other performing arts.

Small but a steady stream of visitors ringing the bell. There was an amazing golden shrine on display behind glass. A nice, peaceful area for a few minutes.
Toyo Bunko Museum

4.0

97 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Bunkyo-ku Hon-komagome 2-28-21

三菱財閥が収集してきた東洋学関連古書の図書館である。学究の徒でもない限り、それらを閲覧することはまずなかろうという和洋中の膨大な数の文献を所蔵している。図書館機能だけの施設なら行くこともないのだが、美術品の企画展もやることあるので、機会あれば行ってみようかと思っていた。で、上京の折、時間ができたので初訪問した。やってた企画展は「シルクロードの旅展」。美術展ではないけど、高校で日本史取らず世...
Ju-Jo Ginza shopping street

4.0

74 Reviews

Shopping

Tokyo Kita-ku Jujonakahara 1-2 , Ue 10-jo 1-3 , Naka 10-jo 2

"All-weather shopping arcade right next to Jujo Station on the JR Saikyo Line, extending from the front of the station. It is a spot frequently introduced by TV and other media, with stores of various types including fashion, miscellaneous goods, gourmet, beauty and health-related, fresh food, and more. Among them, the reasonably priced and readily available side dishes are so popular that it is also called a ""side dish paradise"". There are many events such as contests for senryu (satirical and humorous haiku) and Ogiri (rakugo storytellers must give a witty reply to a question and get some laughs), shopping rallies, etc. The official yuru-chara (local mascot characters) ""Kita nyan"" is also popular."

Here they have a lot of restaurants and the prices are so cheap and it’s like a China town but Japanese version because I’m here in japan lol but I really admire the place and food here very nice...
Oji Inari-jinja Shrine

4.0

45 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Kishimachi 1-12-26

A Shinto shrine located in Kishi-machi, Kita City. This shrine serves as the head shrine for all Inari (fox god) shrines in the Kanto region. According to legend, on New Year's Eve, foxes from around Japan gather here under a tree, and, after making themselves presentable, make their first shrine visit of the new year. The famed woodblock print artist Hiroshige even depicted this event in one of his works. The Oji Fox Parade, held at the end of the year since 1993, imitates this legend, and has now become a local seasonal feature.

祭神宇迦之御魂神（うかのみたまのかみ）宇気母智之神（うけもちのかみ）和久産巣日神（わくむすびのかみ）宇気母智之神と和久産巣日神はダブりではないか？関東の稲荷の総本社の一つ。境内にいくつもの稲荷社があるが、何稲荷か不明。何処かに案内があったか？「王子」の謂れは紀州熊野。参道横に市杵島姫が祀られており、当社の大元はここではないかと思われる。ご婦人方がウォーキングツアーで来ていたの...
Joyful Minowa Shopping Street

4.0

73 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 1-19-1 Joyful Hall

"This all-weather shopping street is covered by a roof and follows the Toden Arakawa Line, extending from the Minowabashi stop to the Arakawa-Icchumae stop. The shopping street has existed since the early-modern Taisho period. The Nakanoshima Benzaiten, a small shrine which is one of the Arakawa Seven Gods of Fortune, stands near the shopping street's west entrance. The shopping street is filled with old-fashioned fruit and vegetable shops, butcher shops, clothing stores, a supermarket, and a variety of other establishments. The shopping street is visited by particularly large numbers of people in the evening, and its shops selling side dishes at reasonable prices are quite popular during this time. The 11th of each month is ""Nakanoshima Benzaiten Day,"" and on this day shops hold special bargain sales and events are also held in the shopping street."

If you want to experience the daily life of down to earth people of Tokyo, visit this shopping street in the old slam of Sanya. Go hungry and get great street food such as tempura on a stick , fried...
Nanushi no Taki Park

4.0

49 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Kishimachi 1-15-25

"A strolling garden full of waterfalls and natural beauty located a 10-minute walk from Oji Station. Seven waterfalls known as the ""Seven Falls of Oji"" once existed in the area, but today of these only Nanushi Waterfall remains. Nanushi Waterfall is comprised of four parts - the eight-meter-tall Odaki, the Medaki, Dokkonotaki, and Yugyokunotaki. The garden's design skillfully incorporates the natural landscape, making use of slopes planted with more than 100 Japanese mountain maples, Japanese zelkovas, and beech trees. The garden is also famously known as a habitat for Heike fireflies and is the perfect place to go for a stroll and take in the changes of the season."

何度か足を運んでいますが、回遊式庭園を回っていて感じることは、男滝は日曜日には流れていることが有るが、他の滝は殆ど流れておらず残念に思いながら変えr事が多い。時間を決めてでも全ての滝の水を流すことが有ってもよいのでは。
Shibusawa Eiichi Memorial Foundation Museum

4.0

40 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Nishigahara 2-16-1

北区王子の「飛鳥山公園」にある「渋沢史料館」についての情報を発信していきます。「渋沢史料館」を訪れたのは2023年6月1日です。「渋沢史料館」へのアクセスは、JR京浜東北線「王子駅」中央口の出口を出て、「本郷通り」を左方向に500ｍほど直進すると三つ目の信号のところに「飛鳥山公園」へ通じる階段が左手にあります。その階段を上ると右手に「紙の博物館」があり、その隣に「北区飛鳥山博物館」、さらに奥に「渋...
Paper Museum

4.0

61 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Oji 1-1-3

This museum had a antastic overview of the history, making and uses of paper, both in Japan and around the world. We spent a rainy afternoon poring over the exhibits, with the aid of a English...
Shinshoji Temple

3.5

59 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Toshima-ku Sugamo 3-21-21

2021年11月6日-14日迄開催されている《第29回すがも中山道菊まつり（添付写真参照）》にて 3ケ所が会場になっておりこちら[眞性寺]はその一つになっています。[巣鴨地蔵通り商店街]をこの期間に訪問する機会あれば立ち寄られることをお薦めします。参道沿いに菊花が展示され、江戸六地蔵中4番目、巡拝3番目である《銅造地蔵菩薩坐像（像高：2.68 m 台座含み...
Kita Asukayama Museum

3.5

34 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Kita-ku Oji 1-1-3

北区王子の「飛鳥山公園」にある「北区飛鳥山博物館」についての情報を発信していきます。「北区飛鳥山博物館」を訪れたのは2023年6月1日です。「紙の博物館」へのアクセスは、JR京浜東北線「王子駅」中央口の出口を出て、「本郷通り」を左方向に500ｍほど直進すると三つ目の信号のところに「飛鳥山公園」へ通じる階段が左手にあります。その階段を上ると右手に「紙の博物館」があり、その隣に「北区飛鳥山博物館」があ...
Toden Omoide Hiroba (Toden Memorial Square)

3.5

48 Reviews

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Nishiogu 8-33-7

"Located right next to the Arakawa Shako-mae stop on the Toden Arakawa Line. Two rare old streetcar models are displayed in this square modeled after an old-fashioned Toden tram stop. One is a 5500 series car, which incorporated a streamlined shape, then the latest technological advance from America at the time; nicknamed the PCC Car, inside there is a diorama depicting what the local area looked like around the late 50s to early 60s. The other is a Old 7500 series car affectionately known as the Gakuen-go (""School Bus""). Visitors can also see streetcars in operating today coming and going from the depot directly adjacent."

小学校の時乗った車両がありました。和製PCCカー5000系は上野駅ー品川駅の1系統に走っていて、見かけると乗っていました。 7500系もちょくちょく乗っていました。懐かしい友達に会ったような気持ちになりました。
Tokyo Somei Onsen SAKURA

3.5

15 Reviews

Accommodations / Hot Spring

Tokyo Toshima-ku Komagome 5-4-24

This day-use hot spring bathhouse completely replaces the water in its tubs daily and takes pride in its thorough facilities management, including hourly bathing area inspections and monthly third party water quality testing. These activities are carried out not only to meet legal standards but are also based on the bathhouse' belief that always providing customers with a beautiful, clean, and hygienic environment represents the utmost in service. Unusually for Tokyo, the waters of the bathhouse' iodine-containing sodium salt-rich chloride spring, welling up from 1,800 meters underground, are colorless and transparent. These waters are said to have outstanding moisturizing and heat retention properties and leave the skin silky smooth.

日帰り温泉内にあるレストランです。お料理はどれも本格的で、数量限定のハンバーグが美味しかったです。接客も丁寧で好感が持てました。
Kyu-Furukawa Gardens

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Kita-ku Nishigahara 1-27-39

A mansion and gardens constructed in the Taisho period to serve as a residence for the Furukawa family. With the post-war dissolution of the zaibatsu conglomerates, the facility was nationalized. After the property was designated a national Cultural Property in 1982, the grounds and building were refurbished. Today, the mansion serves as an art museum commemorating Yonetaro Otani, a man who built his fortune in the steel and hotel industries. The museum’s tea room is open to the public and here visitors can the beautiful antique interior while sipping a cup of tea. An advance reservation via return postcard is necessary to tour areas other than the tea room.
Taisho University Sugamo Odai Kannondo

4.0

27 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Toshima-ku Nishisugamo 3-20-1

A Buddhist cultural facility built on the campus of Taisho University in 2013, the Sugamo Odai Kannondo embodies the school's founding philosophy based on Mahayana Buddhism--the practicing of wisdom and compassion. Take special note of the Heart Sutra written in Sanskrit on the wall of ascending steps on the outside of the facility, the Odai Kannon statue, and a painting by Hiroshi Senju entitled Taki (Waterfall).

大正大学のお隣には、”すがも鴨台観音堂”（通称：さざえ堂）があるんです。巻き貝のさざえに似ていることから「鴨台さざえ堂」の愛称で呼ばれています。「すがも鴨台（おうだい）観音堂」堂内の階段を登り下りすると、巡礼が叶う、という構造になっている...
Nippori Senigai (Fabric Street)

Shopping

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Higashinippori 3-chome -6 chome

A one kilometer long stretch of Nippori Chuo-dori Street where over 80 textile and fabric shops stand eve-to-eve on either side. You can find everything fabric-related here, from Japanese, Western, men's, and women's clothing and textiles to accessories and fittings. An abundance of exhibitions and other events are also held here.
Entsuji Temple

3.5

26 Reviews

Travel / Tourism

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 1-59-11

A five-minute walk from Minowa Station on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line. Records state this Soto Buddhist temple was established in 791 by shogun and general Sakanoue no Tamuramaro. In the Edo period, it was known as one of the Three Temples of Shitaya along with the Kotokuji Temple in Shitaya and the Kishimojin in Iriya. The temple became connected to the Boshin War when it held a memorial service for the Shogitai samurai who fought the armed forces of the new government at the Battle of Ueno in 1868; thereafter, in 1907, the Kaneiji temple's Ueno Kuromon (Black Gate), which became the center of the fighting in Ueno, was moved here to this temple. The gate is pockmarked with bullet holes, an indication of the intensity of the battle which took place.

仏塔と観音像が合体したような寺院の建築はなかなかのアバンギャルドさでした。境内には上野寛永寺から移設された黒門が残されており、こちらは文化財として見ものと思います。
Shioiri Park

Leisure / Hobbies

Tokyo Arakawa-ku Minami-senju 8-13-1

"A metropolitan park located on the eastern tip of Arakawa Ward. Designed to be a wide open, riverside park with an abundance of water and greenery, park facilities include a scenic observatory square, natural grass lawn, and children's play area. The centerpiece of the park is the giant, three story-tall playground nicknamed the ""Twin Towers."" Outstandingly popular with children, from the top, you can see Tokyo Skytree. The park also has a square which is the only one in the city where you can barbecue, and on weekends it bustles with families. In addition, the park is a safety evacuation area which can accommodate around 120 thousand people in the event of an earthquake."

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