❶ Fukagawa Edo Museum

This museum displays life-size replicas of the Fukagawa townscape of the late Edo period. It reenacts the passing of the day through sounds and light, giving visitors the feeling of slipping back in time to experience the lives of the people of the old days.

Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway)

https://www.kcf.or.jp/fukagawa

❷ Kiyosumi Gardens

Designated as one of Tokyo’s Scenic Spots, this Japanese garden is representative of the Meiji period. Around the pond, there is a circuit-style garden with a large artificial mountain resembling Mt. Fuji and stones brought from all over Japan. Enjoy the varied scenery through the four seasons while strolling through this garden.

Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway)

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/format/index033.html

❸ Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo

This museum specializes in contemporary art and will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2025. It houses approximately 6,000 artworks and 280,000 books and documents. There are various ways to enjoy the museum, including special exhibitions featuring a wide variety of art from Japan and abroad, tours of the collection with guided staff, and workshops.

Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway)

https://www.mot-art-museum.jp/en/

❹ Kiba Park

A vast, 24.2 ha city park with lush greenery and open spaces perfect for walks and picnics. Also here are plenty of playgrounds and sports grounds for children, as well as tennis courts, barbecue areas, the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, and Kiba Park Urban Botanical Garden.

Kiba (Subway), Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway), Kikukawa (Subway)

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/park/format/index020.html

❺ Tatsumi Shindo

Enjoy bar-hopping along this 50-meter street. In the past, trams ran through the area around Monzen-nakacho, and evenings bustled with food stalls selling nikomi stews, yakitori, and oden (hot pot dish). Specifically, Tatsumi Shindo is where they all gathered. To this day, you can enjoy the same retro atmosphere.

Monzen-nakacho (Subway)

❻ Monzen-nakacho

Take in the atmosphere of the Edo period at this popular spot. You can visit “Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine,” home to the “Fukagawa Hachiman Festival,” one of the Three Great Festivals of Edo, and “Fukagawa Fudo-do Temple,” where you can pay respects to the deity Fudo Myo-o. Then head to “Ninjo Fukagawa Goriyaku-dori St.” for Japanese sweets and souvenir stores for a fix of delicious food and shopping.

Monzen-nakacho (Subway)

❼ Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine

Founded in 1627, this sacred place is affectionately known as “Fukagawa no Hachiman-sama.” Japan’s largest mikoshi (portable shrine) is exhibited on the grounds, adorned with intricate arrangements of gold, diamonds, and rubies. It is also known as one of the shrines of sumo wrestling.

Monzen-nakacho (Subway)

http://www.tomiokahachimangu.or.jp/

❽ Statue of Ino Tadataka

Starting in the year 1800, Ino Tadataka, the pioneer of modern Japanese maps, spent 17 years surveying Japan to complete the first map of Japan based on actual measurements. He later made his residence here, and a bronze statue of him was erected at Tomioka Hachimangu Shrine in 2000, the 200th anniversary of the commencement of his survey.

Monzen-nakacho (subway)

❾ Meiji-Maru

This iron ship was built in UK for the Meiji government in 1874. Being the only existing iron ship in Japan (all current ships are made of steel), it has been designated an Important Cultural Property. You can find it on the Etchujima Campus (Faculty of Marine Technology/Graduate School) of the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology. You can also tour museums such as the Meiji-Maru Memorial Hall and the Centennial Museum.

Etchujima (JR), Monzen-nakacho (subway), Tsukishima (Subway)

https://www.kaiyodai.ac.jp/en/overview/facility/meijimaru/

❿ Tsukishima

Still retaining much of the atmosphere of shitamachi, Tokyo’s old “downtown,” this area near the Sumida River is exciting to explore. It is a famous hub of restaurants offering monjayaki (pan-fried batter with various fillings), a “soul food” of ordinary Tokyoites. Give it a try when you’re feeling hungry.

Tsukishima (Subway)

⓫ Coffee Town

Kiyosumi Shirakawa is affectionately known as “Coffee Town.” Numerous cafes, like Japan’s first Blue Bottle Coffee store, boast special beans and roasting and extraction methods. The many high-ceilinged warehouses spotted throughout Kiyosumi Shirakawa are said to be ideal environments for roasting coffee beans. Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway)

Kiyosumi-shirakawa (Subway)

⓬ Ninjo Fukagawa Goriyaku-dori

Immediately after exiting Monzen-Nakacho Station, there is the "Ninjo Fukagawa Gokyoku-dori", a 150m approach road that leads from Eitai Dori to Fukagawa Fudo-do. There are about 40 stores, including Japanese sweets shops, amazake shops, Kyoto pickle shops, Edo accessory shops, and jewelry shops, so you can enjoy the bustle typical of Nakamise.

Monzennakacho (subway)

https://koto-kanko.jp/tourism/detail_spot.php?sid=S00140

⓭ Morishita Culture Center

The works and love of Suiho Tagawa, the creator of the manga “Norakuro” Exhibition of items related to the painting of beautiful women, Ito Shinsui, died young Introducing the exhibition corner of Shoji Sekine, a genius painter. Or there is an art space where you can read manga.

森下（地下鉄）

https://www.kcf.or.jp/morishita/

⓮ Kiyosubashi Bridge

The Sumida River, which flows through the eastern part of the Nihonbashi area, curves gently from Ryogoku Bridge to Shin-Ohashi Bridge, then takes a large meander from there to Kiyosubashi Bridge. Just upstream of Kiyosubashi Bridge, the river also meets the Onagi River, which flows east to west through Koto Ward. (This canal was dug in the early Edo period to transport salt, a specialty of Hon-Gyotoku, Shimousa Province (present-day Ichikawa City, Chiba Prefecture)).

From Nihonbashi Nakasu to Kiyosumi 1-chome, Koto Ward

https://www.city.chuo.lg.jp/a0052/bunkakankou/rekishi/kunibunkazai/030821.html

⓯ Sumida River Terrace (Etchujima)

Sumida River Terrace on Etchujima has been designated as an "urban and regional revitalization zone" under the system for opening up river spaces (river site occupation permit guidelines). Because restrictions on event periods and business activities are more relaxed than at other Sumida River Terraces, the area can be used for a variety of purposes, including everyday content (such as food trucks) by the Tokyo Metropolitan Park Association, the operator of the area, and by private businesses and organizations.

Asakusa (Tobu Skytree Line/Subway), Morishita (Toei Shinjuku Line/Toei Oedo Line), Kiyosumi Shirakawa (Subway), Kuramae (Toei Asakusa Line), Etchujima Station (JR Line)

https://www.tokyo-park.or.jp/water/terrace/index.html