Ikefukurou(Owl)

　 It is in Ikebukuro Station East Exit north passage

　　This object is known as a meeting place from 1987

Ikebukuro Station East exit

Commercial facilities such as department store's gathered this is the same as Shinjuku.

Ikebukuro was called small Shinjuku in 1980'S、but Now It is a town popular with young people.

Especially  Stores  for young people have gathered in the Sunshine street

24-hour entertainment facilities　/ Cinema / Discant shop / Fast food

 

Sunshine60



HigashiIkebuk,Toshima,Tokyo  /   SunshineCity	

Sunshine 60 is a 60-story、The building is a symbol of Ikebukuro　fron 1978.
As a mixed-use high-rise, Sunshine 60's space is used for a variety of things.
and From the 60th floor, visitors can see as far as 100 km on a clear day

Shopping street, the Ancient Orient Museum, an aquarium, and a planetarium.
Fountain Square is event space,  a new song announcement of idol 

Ryōgoku Kokugikan (sumo)

    Yokoami 1-3-28 , Sumida-ku, Tokyo　　　　　　　　 sumo and kokugikan

Ryōgoku Kokugikan is an indoor sporting aren that known as Ryougoku Sumo Hall.
It is mainly used for sumo wrestling tournaments in January and May and September.
2 minutes walk from Ryogoku Station West Exit (JR Sobu Line)

    next to the Edo-Tokyo Museum(1993)                         edo-tokyo-museum
    It is a museum of the history of Tokyo during the Edo period

Asakusa Shrine

2-3-1 Asakusa Taitō-ku  /  in  Senso-ji temple

Shrine pavilions located on the east side of the main hall of a Buddhist temple of Senso-ji(1649)
It is National important cultural properties. It is normal that there is a shrine in the temple.

Sakara Ryūō(Dragon King statue)

2-3-1 Asakusa Taitō-ku  /  Senso-ji Temple

One of the dragon king who protect the Dharma　and  Dragon is a god of the water.

(KounTakamura 1906 work)

It is the image that has been laid to rest fountain was in main temple building back.

after World War Ⅱ、Asakusa cuisine restaurant business union has donated in 1964.

 

Sensouji Temple

2-3-1 Asakusa Taitō-ku  

The oldest temple in Tokyo  is an ancient Buddhist temple located in Asakusa(built in 628).

The Nakamise-dōri(89 small shops) is a street on the approach to the temple. It is said to have come about in the early 18th century. 

During the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake many of the shops were destroyed.

During World War II, the temple was bombed and destroyed.

It was rebuilt  and is a symbol of rebirth to japanese and  tourists flocking to Sensō-ji have shopped at the small stores here for centuries