Mori Ogai

Addresses you can still visit

Every place in this city with a documented tie to this person.

• Created here

  Hebimichi

  He included the Aizome River in his novel The Wild Geese, recording the former landscape around Yanaka and Nezu.

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  Lived here

  Mori Ogai Memorial Museum

  Ogai lived at Kanchoro from 1892 until his death in 1922.

• Lived here

  Site of Natsume Soseki's Cat House

  Ogai occupied the same house before moving to his long-term residence Kanchoro.

• Burial place

  Zenrinji Temple

  Ogai's grave bears only his personal name, Mori Rintaro, in accordance with his final wishes.