不一样的东京 | 都電荒川線 | Tokyo Sakura Tram | Toden Arakawa Line | Toei Streetcar
Tokyo Sakura Tram (Toden Arakawa Line)
Total 12.2km, 30 stations. The only Toden tram left in Tokyo. One Day Economy Pass: ¥400. Cash or Pasmo/Suica card, pay to the driver. Admission to the Arakawa Yuen Theme Park is then free with the one day pass. Remember to press the STOP button when your station is next.
From Asakusa, I took subway to Minowa Station (H-19). From there, walk about 10 minutes to reach Minowabashi Station (Toden). There is no signboard nor online map to lead you there, so it’s all depends on your instinct or just ask around. Minowabashi Station is hidden inside rows of buildings. I started my journey around 10.00am from Minowabashi Station, going towards Waseda Station, and returned to Minowabashi Station around 6.00pm. This is something different from the usual Tokyo you know, it’s an authentic old Tokyo experience ????
Places I stopped by:
Joyful Minowa at Minowabashi Station 00:10
Arakawa Yuen Theme Park at Arakawa Yuenchimae Station 00:31
Hokutopia at Oji-ekimae Station 00:45
Asukayama Park at Asukayama Station 01:15
Sugamo Jizo-dori Shopping Street (Grandma’s Harajuku) at Koshinzuka Station 01:31
Kogan-ji Temple at Koshinzuka Station 01:41
Kishimojin at Kishibojimmae Station 01:55
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Sugamo, Koganji temple and Togenukijizo
Sugamo is a district of Tokyo. You can reach it by the Yamanote line Sugamo Stn. Famous to be considered the elderly's Harajuku it brings you back in time. It is famous for the Koganji temple and the Togenukijizo. It is a place not wildly known abroad but in my opinion very distinctive. I made many mistakes in English and mispelled the name of the statue a couple of time. Please forgive me! Hope you liked the video and please comment below. Thank you.
Walking in Tokyo - Sugamo - 4K
Sugamo (巣鴨) is sometimes described as the Harajuku for elderly people. The main shopping street, Jizo Dori, is about 800 meters long and filled with shops catering to the older generation of Japanese.
In this video I start walking at JR Sugamo Station, and continue all the way along Jizo Dori, until I reach Koshinzuka station on the Toden Arakawa streetcar line.
Shot in June 2018 with a Fujifilm X-T20 mounted on a Zhiyun Crane V2. 4K / Ultra HD Resolution.
I hope you like this travel video. Feel free to come with suggestions if there are any other areas of Tokyo you want me to film.
Masahiko Bell
Katori Masahiko pours his 96th temple bell in an except from the 1980 National Geographic documentary Living Treasures of Japan. One of nine showcased traditional artists in the video, Masahiko demonstrates some of the secrets and rituals significant to Japanese craftsmanship. Deceased since 1988, he leaves behind numerous bells around the world and other unparalleled bronze crafts.
A deep and sincere bow
Off the beaten track in Tokyo
I had a lovely day with guide Akira, who took me to places that I would have struggled to find on my own.
There at exactly the time arranged (10 o’clock) he was waiting for me at the entrance to my building and off we set. Such a pleasure not to even think about direction, not to have to consult the dreaded Google, not to have to plan a single thing, and yet to see all that I wanted to see, and more. From the little local tram tucked away in the middle of this enormous city, to Sugama, the “elderlies” area as Akira called it, which has been on my list of places to see for ages. To a beautiful little jewel of a park where the plum is blossoming in all its (subtle) glory.
A word about the plum blossom. Whilst we all think of Sakura, cherry blossom, it is the plum that is considered the harbinger of Spring in Japan, as it starts to bloom whilst the days are still wintery. Sometimes it is also called apricot, so I thought I should look it up. All I can say is, I am none the wiser.
What seemed confusing to me was that there are in fact (as with the cherry) many different varieties, so which were they referring to? Apart from quoting Latin names at me, I discovered that the tree is sometimes called Chinese plum or Japanese apricot – but it does seem that the blossom is always called plum blossom.
The Japanese are certainly very fond of eating ume, the fruit pickled, which is about the sourest thing I have ever tasted. I actually like it in an onigiri, where eating it together with rice tones its punch down considerably.
The Tokyo Sakura Tram, Toei Streetcar, Arakawa Line, claims to show “ a side of Tokyo you’ve never seen before”. It trundled its way through what looked like quiet villages with a totally different ambience, although we were in fact in the heart of the metropolis that is Tokyo. The stops were frequent, bell operated like a bus, and was busy the whole way.
It was mostly filled with wrinklies like myself. For once the allocated priority seats were not enough. It seemed as if every seat should be a priority seat and it was hard to know who should give up their seat to whom. I think at one point my poor guide was the only one not qualified to sit.
The area of Sugama, with an ageing population, had become a sad place to live but it has taken on a new lease of life as the locals got together to make this an asset. The pace of life is slower, people have time to meet and mingle, to help each other out, to work out how to get discounts together so that living becomes more affordable, and of course to bring in tourists from outside who bring money into the area.
Thanks to Akira we ate at a local restaurant which was not only delicious, but also terrific value.
From there to the Koishikawa Kora-koen (gardens) Bukyo-Ku in search of the aforementioned plum blossom. It is a seventeenth-century garden started by Yorifusa Mito in 1629, and completed by his son Mitsukuni.
Here I discovered that as well as the different shades of pink, there is also a yellow version.
One of the pleasures of having a guide is that there is someone there to answer my questions. Whilst I do very much enjoy wandering around on my own, I often see something of interest but don’t really have an idea of what it is, so Akira was able to enrich my experience with his knowledge. And if he didn’t know, he could ask!
So for example when a gallery caught my eye, Akira was able to tell me something about the artist whose works were being displayed.
Guide details:
Akira Nakashima
chuujiroo@yahoo.co.jp