Traditional Tokyo

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Sunaba Soba Restaurant

Sunaba Soba Restaurant is located at the corner across Toranomon Hills Business Tower. No doubt is this restaurant a fam...
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Suegen

Suegen is a Japanese restaurant which specializes in chicken dishes, located across Shimbashi Station in the east. You m...
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Yanagi-Bashi

Yanagi-Bashi itself is a small bridge which is located at the mouth of Kandagawa creek which pours into Sumida river. Bu...
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Site of Lord Kira’s residence

This site is where Lord Kira lived 300 years ago., near the Sumida river. You can see the statue of him in the photo. He...
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Ichinohashi Bridge

Ichinohashi Bridge spans over a canal which is connected to Sumida river. "Ichi-No-Hashi" means the first bridge, that m...
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Eshima-Sugiyama Shrine

Eshma-Sugiyama Shrine is a shrine near Sumida River. This shrine is a "branch shrine" of Eshima Shrine at Enoshima, a sm...
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Basho Inari Jinja

Basho Inari Jinja enshrines Matsuo Basho, probably the most famous Haiku poet in Japan. He lived in early Edo era, in th...
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Man’nen-bashi bridge

Man'nen-bashi bridge is one of the bridges which has been there since Edo era. Unlike other famous bridges, this bridge ...
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Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine

Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine is just 5 minutes' walk from Monzen-Nakacho Station, which I featured last week. This shrine w...
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Atago Shrine

Atago Shrine is located about 15 minutes' walk from Shimbashi Station to the west. This shrine was established 400 years...