Street & district

Yanaka Ginza

Address: 3-13 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo
Area: Tokyo, Japan

Hours: Opening hours vary by shop; check each store separately.
How to visit: The shopping street is a short walk from Nippori Station. There is no common opening time, so check individual shops directly.
Hours: About 60 min

Why it is worth the detour

A 170-metre shopping street of the old «shitamachi» with about 60 family shops, cat statues and the «sunset stairs» at its top.

Yanaka Ginza is a charming shopping street in Tokyo's Yanaka neighborhood, known for its nostalgic 'shitamachi' atmosphere and unique cat statues. It offers a glimpse into traditional Japanese market life with its family-run shops.

What else is close by

The nearest places we have written up, with straight-line distance from here.

550 m
Yanaka Cemetery
This atmospheric cemetery contains the grave of the last Tokugawa shogun and preserves the quiet, temple-filled character of old Yanaka.
1.0 km
Nezu Shrine
Its richly decorated 1706 buildings, azalea garden and tunnel of red torii offer one of Tokyo's best-preserved Edo-period shrine settings.
1.4 km
Tokyo National Museum
Japan's oldest and largest museum (1872): samurai swords, Buddhist sculpture, kimono and the Horyu-ji treasures.
1.5 km
Ueno Toshogu Shrine
A gilded 1651 shrine to Tokugawa Ieyasu that survived the 1868 battle, the 1923 earthquake and the 1945 raids intact.
1.7 km
National Museum of Western Art
Le Corbusier's only building in East Asia (1959, UNESCO), built around the Matsukata collection of Monet and Rodin.
1.8 km
Ueno Park
The former grounds of the powerful Kaneiji temple became a battlefield in 1868 and later Tokyo's great museum and cherry-blossom park.