Bunkyo City
Sightseeing Spots
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Bunkyo Museum (Furusato Rekishikan)
This local museum for Tokyo's Bunkyo ward first opened up in 1991. …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Mori Ogai Memorial Museum
Mori Ogai spent 30 years at this site until he passed away in 1922.…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Rikugien Gardens
Together with Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens, this site is one of the …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Koishikawa Korakuen Gardens
As the garden of the Mito Tokugawa family's main residence, it was …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Koishikawa Botanical Garden (Gardens of The Graduate School of Science, The University of Tokyo)
This site was originally a secondary villa for the fifth shogun, To…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Higo-Hosokawa Garden
Originally a residence of the Hosokawa family, which headed the Kum…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Gokokuji Temple
Originally built as a prayer temple by the fifth shogun, Tokugawa T…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hakusan-Jinja Shrine
During the Tenryaku era (947-957) Shirayama Hime Shrine in the form…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Nezu-Jinja Shrine
This site was the birthplace of the sixth shogun, Tokugawa Ienobu, …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Yushima Tenmangu Shrine
This shrine is dedicated to Sugawara no Michizane, the deity of lea…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Tokyo University Akamon Gate Shinji-ike Pond (Sanshiro-ike)
Akamon Gate was first established in 1827 by Maeda Nariyasu, the 13…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Toyo Bunko
This specialized library and research center for East Asian studies…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hotel Chinzanso Tokyo
During the Edo period this site was used as a residence for Kuroda …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Bunkyo Civic Center
This multipurpose site features various facilities for public use, …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Tokyo Dome City
This site serves as an urban entertainment complex. As the home of…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Kingyo-zaka
This restaurant is managed by a goldfish wholesaler that has been a…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
International Origami Center
This site offers a place to play and learn about traditional Japane…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Amezaiku Yoshihara
This specialty store offers traditional "Amezaiku" candy crafts tha…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Yanesen
This area features many different buildings that date back to the E…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Wayoh UDOYOSHI (Japanese Calligraphy Class)
A Japanese calligraphy class for small groups. "Wahyoh" is a gener…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Yushima Seido
This Kōshi-byō (Confucian temple) was built by Hayashi Razan, a Con…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Japan Football Museum
Opened in 2003 by the Japan Football Association to commemorate the…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hongo Kyusuijo Park
This park contains a wooded area inspired by the groves of Musashin…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum
This museum documents the 400-year history of Tokyo's waterworks, f…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Rinshoin Temple
This temple was built in 1624 by order of Iemitsu, the third shogun…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Mitsubishi Archives
These Archives were established in 1996 as an affiliated facility o…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Former Iseya Pawn Shop
This pawnshop is said to have been frequented by the Meiji-era nove…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hosho Noh Theater
This gorgeous Noh drama performance hall was built in 1913. The cu…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hoshinji Temple
Hoshinji Temple is a Jodo Buddhist temple located directly across f…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Yayoi Museum / Takehisa Yumeji Museum
Yayoi Museum, established in 1984, houses the works of various arti…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Former Residence of Natsume Soseki
Natsume Soseki, a great writer active during the Meiji and Taisho p…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
SAKURA (Japanese Sweets Class)
This is a cozy little class where you can learn all about "wagashi"…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Ushi Tenjin Kitano-Jinja Shrine
There is a legend that Minamoto no Yoritomo, the first shogun of th…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Kodokan Judo Institute
The Kodokan is the headquarters of the art of judo, practiced in ar…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Memorial to Ishikawa Takuboku Monument and Gallery
Ishikawa Takuboku, a Meiji era poet, lived here until 1912, when he…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Printing Museum, Tokyo
Established in 2000 as part of Toppan Printing's 100th anniversary …
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
"Konnyaku Enma" Genkakuji Temple
According to the tales, some time around 1751~1764, there was an ol…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Denzuin Temple
This temple was founded in by 1415 under the name "Muryosan Jukyoji…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Nankokuji Temple (Meaka Fudo)
This temple was founded in 1616 by the monk Mangyo. Mangyo, an ard…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Tomb of Yaoya Oshichi (Enjyoji Temple)
Enjyoji Temple is a temple of the Tendai sect of Buddhism, and with…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Hatoyama Hall
Former Prime Minister Ichiro Hatoyama built this Western-style hous…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
St. Mary's Cathedral,Tokyo
This building was originally constructed in 1899 as a cathedral att…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Japan Women's University Naruse Memorial Hall
The Naruse Memorial Hall was originally built in 1906 as the "Toyoa…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Eisei Bunko Museum
Located on the site of the former Edo residence of the Hosokawa fam…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Sekiguchi Bashoan Garden
Matsuo Basho, the Edo period haiku poet, lived here for three years…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Takahashi Kobo
This ukiyo-e woodblock print studio has been in business for 150 ye…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
The Former Yasuda Kusuo Residence
This residence was built in 1919 by the businessman Kozaburo Fujita…
- Tokyo 、 Bunkyo
Kizankan Hotel
Founded in 1937 in the center of Hongo, a district famed for its as…
