by Isao deura | 3月 21, 2020 | Cities and Towns, Other, Other
There is a street called “Nippori Fabric Street” extending from the east exit of JR Nippori Station to the east direction over about 1Km. More than 80 shops line up and deal in fabrics on the both sides of the street. In prewar days, they used to handle leftover...
by Isao deura | 11月 3, 2018 | Cities and Towns
The Arakawa-Line of Tokyo metropolitan tramcar, is running for 12.2KM section between Minowa station in “Shitamachi” area and Waseda station in “Yamanote” area. In general “Shitamachi” shows an area where shops, factories and residents are gathering together on...
by Isao deura | 4月 20, 2018 | Cities and Towns
There used to be a main residence of Mito Domain in Edo City during the Edo Period.The Mito Domain was governed by one of the three privileged branches of the Tokugawa family, so called “Gosanke”. The whole site of the residence coveredthe area of approx.336,000M2....
by Isao deura | 4月 19, 2018 | Asakusa-Akihabara-Ueno, Cities and Towns
Getting off at Nezu-Station on the Subway Chiyoda-Line and stepping upthrough No. 1 exist, one can find the Nezu-I-Choume intersection between the Shinobazu-Street and the Kototoi-Street in front. Going for approximately 300 Meters along the Sinobazu-street towards...
by Isao deura | 4月 19, 2018 | Asakusa-Akihabara-Ueno, Cities and Towns
Seven Deities of Good Luck on Treasure Boat(Wood-Block Print) “Shichi-Fuku-Jin” is believed to be seven individual deities who bring good fortunes topeople in Japan. They are named “Benzaiten”, “Daikokuten”,“Bisyamonten”, “Jyurojin”, “Hoteison”, “Ebisu” and...