Why it is worth the detour
Its dramatic elevated building and full-scale reconstructions explain how the shogun's city became the modern capital.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
550 m
Sumida Hokusai Museum
Kazuyo Sejima's aluminium-clad museum in the district where Hokusai was born and moved house more than 90 times.
1.5 km
Azuma Bridge
A crossing has linked Asakusa with the eastern bank since the eighteenth century, and today's red bridge frames classic river and skyline views.
1.8 km
Fukagawa Edo Museum
A life-size reconstruction here restores the canal-side Fukagawa-Saga neighborhood of the 1830s and 1840s, complete with row houses, shops, shipping agents, a firebreak, and a water taxi. Changing light and sound make the vanished district pass through an entire day, revealing how thoroughly water transport once shaped ordinary Tokyo life.
1.8 km
Kiyosumi Gardens
Mitsubishi founder Yataro Iwasaki reshaped this former daimyo property into a Meiji-era strolling garden renowned for stones gathered across Japan.
1.8 km
Nakamise-dori
The 250-metre approach from Kaminarimon to Senso-ji, lined with about 90 stalls, one of Japan's oldest shopping streets.
1.9 km
Sumida Park
Riverside park on both banks of the Sumida with the cherry trees planted by the eighth shogun, the Asahi flame and the Skytree in view.
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Walk it with the stories
This address is one stop among many. Our routes and quests link them into a walk that makes sense on the ground.