[Nippori: Yanaka Cemetery to Yanaka Ginza, Yanesen: Walking around the village of day-dreamers]
[Nippori Yanaka Cemetery to Yanaka Ginza Yanesen Higurashi Village Walk]
🚶🏻Leave JR Nippori Station from the west exit and go straight from Gotenzaka to Shichimenzaka towards Sendagi.
☸️🕉️If you head south from the intersection where Gotenzaka turns into Shichimenzaka, you will come to the temple town of Yanaka. This is the place to go for a pilgrimage to Buddhist power spots, to take photos of flower water basins, and to collect temple stamps.
🖼️ 🧑🎨Asakura Museum of Sculpture
Sculptures by Asakura Fumio and his family
💰Price per person: 500-
🕰️Opening hours: 9:30AM–4:30PM Mon,Thur close
📍Location: 7 Chome-18-10 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
🏛️Kannon-ji Yanaka Kannon-ji Tsujibei
After being reduced to ashes by fire in 1772, Kannon-ji was rebuilt around the Bunsei era. The Tsujibei is a so-called kneaded wall that is 37.6m long and marks the south side of the temple grounds. It is made of alternating layers of tiles and clay and has one hidden door. It conveys the atmosphere of the time when it was one of Edo's leading temple towns, along with Asakusa. 』
📍Address: 5 Chome-8-28 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
Go straight down Shichimenzaka towards Sendagi
🍧Yanaka Ginza Shopping Street
📍Address: 3 Chome-13-1 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
🏖️Atmosphere: Yanaka Ginza is home to a collection of small restaurants full of ideas that are the source of trends for small cafe menus all over Japan.
🍧Himitsu-do Himitsudō Shaved ice and other Japanese icy desserts
💰Price per person: 1000-
📍Address: 3 Chome-11-18 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
🍛Zakuro Persian and Uzbek cuisine and carpet sales, belly dancing events, etc.
💰Price per person: 2000-
📍Location: Studio Yanaka 1F, 3 Chome−13−2, Nishinippori, Arakawa City, Tokyo 116-0013
Sendagi side
🇯🇵YANESEN Tourist Information & Culture Center
Japanese culture experience class
📍Location: 3 Chome-13-7 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
🍽️☕️HAGISO
Cafe and gallery run by a local creative company
🕰️Opening hours: 8:00 - 10:30, Tues., Wed., Thurs. 12:00 - 17:00, Fri., Sat., Sun. 12:00 - 20:00
📍Location: 3 Chome-10-25 Yanaka, Taito City, Tokyo 110-0001
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