One Day Ticket for Subway

Subway in Tokyo has useful ticket for travelers.

Tokyo Metro has 24 Hours tickets which was changed from One day pass recently.
It costs 600 yen and you can use it for 24 hours after your first ride.
If you start using it in the afternoon, it'll valid in the morning of the next day.

Toei Subway has One Day Pass for 500 yen. But it's seasonal ticket.
It'll be available for several weeks in each season.
















Toei also has Marugoto (All-in-one) Ticket for 700 yen and this is always available.
This ticket is one day ticket to cover not only Toei Subway but also buses, street cars and Toneri Liner (New transportation system).
















Also, one day ticket to cover both Tokyo Metro and Toei Subway for 1000 yen.

When you make a plan for the day in Tokyo, you can make it reasonable by using these tickets wisely.

All tickets are available at Ticket Machine at the station.

Kameido Tenjin Shrine in the season

Kameido Tenjin Shrine is also known as a flower shrine.
Especially wisteria is famous here.

Wisteria Festival is held from the middle of April through the beginning of May.

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<The Nearest Station>

JR Kameido station on Sobu Line

JR Kinshicho station on Sobu Line

Kinshicho station on Hanzomon Line (Z13/Tokyo Metro)

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Kameido Tenjin Shrine

Kameido Tenjin Shrine deifies Michizane Sugawara, who was a genius in 9th century.

His original shrine is Dazaifu Temmangu in Kyushu.

This shrine is basically for students who are going to have tests.

In 1648, a Shinto priest of Dazaifu Temmangu who was descended from Michizane Sugawara traveled around in Japan and reached here to deifies a statue in an old small shrine.

After a big fire in the city of Edo, the forth Shogun donated a shrine in the current place.

The shrine was built to copy Dazaifu Temmangu in 1662.  

You'll see Tokyo Skytree as a background of shrine's main building.

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<The Nearest Station>

JR Kameido station on Sobu Line

JR Kinshicho station on Sobu Line

Kinshicho station on Hanzomon Line (Z13/Tokyo Metro)

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Tobacco & Salt Museum - Tobacco Part

"History and Culture of Tobacco" exhibitions are on the third floor of Tobacco & Salt Museum.

Exhibitions include collections of pipes and devices for tobacco from all of the world.
These pipes are so big that I guess smoking in the past is something special.

Tobacco store in Edo era shows tobacco culture and history of Japan.

This museum has a hall, a library and a room for multi purpose where you may eat and drink.

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<The Nearest Station>

Honjoazumabashi station on Asakusa Line (A19/Toei Subway)

<Admission>

Permanent exhibitions: 100 yen
Special exhibitions     : 300 yen

10:00-18:00     Closed on Mondays (The following day if it's holiday)
                     Dec. 29 - Jan. 3

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Tobacco & Salt Museum - Salt Part

Tobacco & Salt Museum was moved from Shibuya to the current location recently since old space was not big enough after 35 years of activities.

There's a symbol monument in front of the museum which was used as a sign of Tobacco store of Sweden in 19th century.

On the second floor, there're special exhibition room and permanent exhibitions about salt.
Permanent exhibitions are titled "The World of Salt".
Exhibitions include sculpture of rock salt, 1.4 ton block of rock salt, how to make salt in Japan.

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<The Nearest Station>

Honjoazumabashi station on Asakusa Line (A19/Toei Subway)

<Admission>

Permanent exhibitions: 100 yen
Special exhibitions     : 300 yen

10:00-18:00     Closed on Mondays (The following day if it's holiday)
                     Dec. 29 - Jan. 3

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Sarue Onshi Park

This park is located just beside Yokojukken River.
Flowers and trees are well maintained.
Wide open spaces are surrounded by trees.

A clock tower stands with Tokyo Skytree.

There're park for little kids, pond, tennis courts, baseball fields etc.

Cherry blossoms are beautiful here, too.

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<The Nearest Station>

Sumiyoshi station on Hanzomon Line (Z12/Tokyo Metro) /
Shinjuku Line (S13/Toei Subway)

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Oiran Dochu

Yoshiwara is known as public whorehouses quarter in Edo era.
It was surrounded by high walls and only one entrance gate was watched by guards.
Prostitutes were not allowed to go out of this quarter.

They were well educated to be master of many different kind of arts like dancing, singing, playing instruments, calligraphy, teas, poems, classic books and so on.

Top class of them were called Oiran and need huge money to play with them.

Oiran parades from her home house to the playing house when she was called.

Now we can see this parade in Yoshiwara once a year on the second Saturday in April if it's not raining.

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<The Nearest Station>

Asakusa station
on Tsukuba Express Line
on Tobu Skytree Line
on Ginza Line (G19/Tokyo Metro)
on Asakusa Line (A18/Toei Subway)

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Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum

Tokyo Waterworks Historical Museum is at right next to water purification plant in Hongo.
Tokyo water is known as safe and delicious water.

You can see history of water supply in Tokyo.
You may be surprised that water supply system was established 400 years ago.

When you redevelop the area in Tokyo, you may find old wooden water pipes in the ground.
Water was taken from Tamagawa River.

Houses in Edo era are built on the second floor of museum.
Water in wells in Edo was not from groundwater but from water supply system.
400 years ago !!

You can drink Tokyo water from a water cooler here.

Audio guides are available. (Japanese/English/Chinese/Korean)

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<The Nearest Station>

JR Ochanomizu station on Chuo Line
Ochanomizu station on Marunouchi Line (M20/Tokyo Metro)

<Admission>

Free of Charge

9:30-17:00     Closed on the 4th Mondays (or the following day if it's a holiday)
                   Dec. 28 - Jan. 4

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