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  • Many visitors do not realize that beyond Tokyo's shiny architecture there are neighborhoods unchanged from a century ago. Shitamachi is one of these neighborhoods, lovingly referred to by the Japanese as “downtown". Like most shitamachi neighborhoods, Yamaka is a low-rise, almost rural place that makes Tokyo lovable and livable, taking us back to another era.  Modern Tokyo has sprouted a new icon: Tokyo Skytree which stands in many a backdrop of Shitamachi street scenes.
    shitamachi-1.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which operated until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-2.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which operated until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-1.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which operated until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-6.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which operated until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-3.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which was in business until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-5.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-3.jpg
  • The Shitamachi Museum Yanaka Annex is housed in a century-old liquor shop which operated until 1986.  It was restored to its original state with sake barrels, weights, measures and retro posters adding a perfect accent to Yanaka.  When it was still in business, it was the Yoshida Sake Store. It was built in 1920 and its long eaves are characteristic of Tokyo merchant buildings of the time.
    shitamachi-museum-yanaka-4.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-1.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-4.jpg
  • Downtown Shitamachi - Shibamata is famous as the home of Tora-san, the lead character in the movie franchise Otoko Wa Tsurai Yo "It's Tough Being a Man" about the adventures of Tora-san, a salesman who explores travels a modernizing Japan, forever falling in love with the wrong people. Tora-san was played by actor Atsumi Kiyoshi.  There is a statue of Tora-san in front of Shibamata Station, and the shopping street leading to Taishakuten Temple has an ample array of mochi shops, all claiming to be the one featured in the movies.
    shitamachi-2.jpg
  • Many visitors do not realize that beyond Tokyo's shiny architecture there are neighborhoods unchanged from a century ago. Yanaka is one of these neighborhoods, lovingly referred to by the Japanese as shitamachi or downtown. Like most shitamachi neighborhoods, Yamaka is a low-rise, almost rural place that makes Tokyo lovable and livable, taking us back to another era.
    yanaka-shop-1.jpg
  • Many visitors do not realize that beyond Tokyo's shiny architecture there are neighborhoods unchanged from a century ago. Yanaka is one of these neighborhoods, lovingly referred to by the Japanese as shitamachi or downtown. Like most shitamachi neighborhoods, Yamaka is a low-rise, almost rural place that makes Tokyo lovable and livable, taking us back to another era.
    yanaka-shop-2.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-04.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-03.jpg
  • Many visitors do not realize that beyond Tokyo's shiny architecture there are neighborhoods unchanged from a century ago.  Yanaka is one of these neighborhoods, lovingly referred to by the Japanese as shitamachi or downtown.  Like most shitamachi neighborhoods, Yamaka is a low-rise, almost rural place that makes Tokyo lovable and livable, taking us back to another era.
    yanaka-2.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-01.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-06.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-02.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-05.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-08.jpg
  • Shibamata Taishakuten Temple was once known as Kyoeizan Daikyoji.  Taiskahuten is a unique temple established in 1629 in Shibamata - one of the oldest in Tokyo. The Japanese Ministry of the Environment designated this temple as one of the top "soundscapes" of Japan to promote discovery of the sounds of everyday life.  In the case of Taishakuten it is the sounds of Shibamata and retro Tokyo usually referred to as Shitamachi.
    shibamata-taishakuten-temple-07.jpg
  • Sembei Shop, Yanaka -Senbei is a Japanese rice cracker that come in various sizes, shapes, and flavors, and usually cooked by being baked or grilled while brushed with soy sauce. Certain types of sembei are wrapped in seaweed or nori.
    sembei-shop-2.jpg
  • Nakamise Street is one of the oldest shopping centers in Japan.  The Tokugawa Shogunate established Edo (now Tokyo) which grew along with visitors to Sensoji Temple.  Locals who served visitors at Sensoji Temple were given special rights to open shops along the approach road to the temple. In the Edo period shops located near Kaminarimon selling toys, sweets, snacks, and souvenirs pretty much as they do today.  Seasonal decorations adorn the street, giving the area a touch of color.
    nakamise-street-1.jpg
  • Sembei Shop, Yanaka - The Japanese love crackers of many different descriptions, spicy ones, crackers with seaweed imbedded in them, sesame crackers. This is a traditional cracker or "sembai" shop in Yanaka, Tokyo. Note the large round bowls to protect crackers from the elements.
    sembei-shop-1.jpg
  • Elderly Japanese Reading Newspaper
    reading-newspaper.jpg
  • Senbei is a Japanese rice cracker that come in various sizes, shapes, and flavors, and usually cooked by being baked or grilled while brushed with soy sauce.  Certain types of sembei are wrapped in seaweed or nori.
    sembei-shop-1.jpg
  • Yanaka Rickshaw with Sakura or cherry blossoms overhead - A cherry blossom is the flower of any of several trees of genus Prunus, particularly the Japanese Cherry, Prunus serrulata, which is called sakura in Japanese.  Japan has a wide variety of cherry blossoms with well over 200 types can be found there.[ The most popular variety of cherry blossom in Japan is the Somei Yoshino. Its flowers are nearly white, tinged with the palest pink, and bloom and fall within a week, before the leaves come out.
    japanese-rickshaw-1.jpg
  • Asakusa Rickshaw with Japanese women tourists having a photo op with the rickshaw puller.
    japanese-rickshaw-8.jpg