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Jokanji Temple

Indirizzo: 2-1-12 Minamisenju, Arakawa City, Tokyo
Zona: Tokyo, Giappone

Lun: 06:00–17:00
Mar: 06:00–17:00
Mer: 06:00–17:00
Gio: 06:00–17:00
Ven: 06:00–17:00
Sab: 06:00–17:00
Dom: 06:00–17:00
Orari: Closes at 16:30 from December through February; closes at 17:00 from March through November.
Prezzo: Free admission (¥0).
Come visitare: Use the North Exit of Minowa subway station; the temple is about a 1-minute walk away. It is also about a 5-minute walk from Minowabashi tram station.
Orari: Ingresso libero
Orari: Circa 15–30 min

Perché vale la deviazione

Known as the “Throw-In Temple,” Jokanji received the bodies of impoverished or unclaimed Yoshiwara women, including victims of the 1855 Ansei earthquake. Its New Yoshiwara memorial tower embodies the saying that a woman might be born into the “bitter world” and end at Jokanji, making this the quarter’s most sobering surviving place.

Jokanji Temple, located in Tokyo, is a historical site known for its somber role in receiving the bodies of unclaimed women from the Yoshiwara district. It features a memorial tower commemorating these women, including victims of the 1855 Ansei earthquake.

Che cosa c’è nei paraggi

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600 m
Ichiyo Memorial Museum
The museum preserves Ichiyo’s draft of “Takekurabe,” her shop ledger and a model reconstructing the neighborhood beside Yoshiwara. The model makes the vanished landscape unusually legible: her tenement faced toward the quarter’s ditch, walls and emergency gate.
750 m
Ohaguro Ditch Wall Remnant
Yoshiwara was once encircled by the broad, foul-water Ohaguro Ditch, a physical barrier designed in part to obstruct escape. A small section of dark stonework and the abrupt changes in ground level near the former gate are identified locally as remnants of that boundary, though the attribution is not completely certain.
800 m
Mikaeri Yanagi
Customers departing Yoshiwara were said to pause beside this willow and look back regretfully, giving it the name “Looking-Back Willow.” The present tree is a later replacement and has been moved from its original position beside the Sanya Canal, but it remains the quarter’s most evocative farewell marker.
850 m
Gojukken Road and the Koshodo Site
The surviving S-shaped approach concealed the interior of Yoshiwara from travelers on the embankment. Here the young publisher Tsutaya Juzaburo opened Koshodo, selling and publishing guidebooks that catalogued the quarter and eventually turning Yoshiwara gossip, fashion and personalities into mass media.
900 m
Yoshiwara Park and the Daimonjiro Site
The park occupies the former grounds of Daimonjiro, one of late Yoshiwara’s great high-ranking brothels. Its open footprint gives an unusual sense of how enormous a prestigious establishment could be before fires, earthquake destruction and postwar redevelopment erased the buildings.
900 m
Yoshiwara Shrine
This small shrine combines five Inari shrines that once guarded the entrance and corners of the enclosed pleasure quarter; Yoshiwara Benzaiten was later added as a sixth deity. Courtesans prayed here for protection and professional success, making it one of the few surviving institutions shaped by the women of Yoshiwara themselves.