Literature

Osamu Dazai

1909–1948Local figure

Addresses you can still visit

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

Commemorated here
Bar Lupin
Photographer Tadahiko Hayashi made a celebrated portrait of Dazai inside the bar in 1946.
Commemorated here
Dazai Osamu Literary Salon
He named the Isemoto liquor shop that stood here in his short story December Eighth.
Commemorated here
Gyokkaseki Memorial Stone on the Tamagawa Aqueduct
Dazai repeatedly wrote the Tamagawa Aqueduct and the surrounding Mitaka landscape into works such as The Beggar Student.
Commemorated here
Mitaka Seishintei and Dazai's Crape Myrtle
He depicted the crape-myrtle tree from his Mitaka home in the short story Osan.
Burial place
Zenrinji Temple
Dazai was buried near the grave of Mori Ogai, whom he deeply admired.

These addresses are scattered across the city. Our routes and quests put them in an order that works.