Tokyo: Yanaka Old Town Walk
🚶7 mapped stops
The Tokyo that survived the firebombing — wooden houses, cat alleys, and artisan workshops.
Stops on This Tour (7)
- 1 Nippori Station Gateway to Tokyo's best-preserved shitamachi (downtown) neighbourhood
- 2 Yanaka Cemetery Cherry-lined cemetery where Tokugawa shoguns rest beside commoners
- 3 Yanaka Ginza Shopping Street Retro shopping street with a famous sunset staircase
- 4 Yuyake Dandan (Sunset Steps) Staircase framing the sunset — and home to Yanaka's famous cats
- 5 Tenno-ji Temple Temple with a massive seated Buddha and a lotus-filled pond
- 6 SCAI The Bathhouse Former public bathhouse converted into a contemporary art gallery
- 7 Nezu Shrine Tunnel of vermilion torii gates and 3,000 azalea bushes in spring
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