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Why it is worth the detour
Mitsubishi founder Yataro Iwasaki reshaped this former daimyo property into a Meiji-era strolling garden renowned for stones gathered across Japan.
What else is close by
The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.
300 m
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.
1.1 km
Takao Inari Shrine
This tiny shrine grew from the legend of Takao Dayu, a celebrated Yoshiwara courtesan supposedly murdered aboard a boat after rejecting the lord who purchased her contract. The shrine claims to enshrine a skull associated with her, but historians dispute both the murder story and the relic—making it a striking example of a courtesan becoming the center of an enduring urban ghost legend.
1.6 km
Nihonbashi Bridge
First built in 1603, this bridge marked the starting point of the Five Highways and remains Japan's official road-distance zero point.
1.8 km
Edo-Tokyo Museum
Its dramatic elevated building and full-scale reconstructions explain how the shogun's city became the modern capital.
1.9 km
Sumida Hokusai Museum
Kazuyo Sejima's aluminium-clad museum in the district where Hokusai was born and moved house more than 90 times.
2.2 km
Tsukishima Monja Street
About 70 restaurants on one street serving monjayaki, the runny Tokyo cousin of okonomiyaki, cooked on the table griddle.
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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.