Suijinja Shrine

Suijinja means "Water Shrine".
There used to be a water gate here for Kanda waterworks.
We had clean waterworks system in Tokyo in Edo era from 400 years ago.

Nobody knows how old this shrine is.
It must be older than 400 years since it's told this shrine was there at the beginning of Kanda waterworks.

This shrine is in the middle of a steep hill.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)

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(S07) Walking in Gardens in Edogawabashi

Edogawabashi has many good gardens and museums.
There're steep stairs and slopes since they are in hilly area.

Route and links are as follows.

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Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line
(Y12/Tokyo Metro)

1. Chinzanso Gardens

2. Shin-Edogawa Park

3. Eisei Bunko Museum

4. Lunch

5. Hatoyama Hall

6. Noma Memorial Museum
 
7. Basho-an

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Hatoyama Hall

Hatoyama Hall is a mansion owned by Hatoyama family.
This mansion was built in 1924 by Ichiro Hatoyama who used to be a prime minister.
Hatoyama Family is politician family.

There're exhibitions related to the family besides furniture and decorations including stained glasses.

Also, garden has many seasonal flowers.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)

<Admission>

600 yen

10:00-16:00        Closed on Mondays
                        January, February and August

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Edogawabashi

Middle part of Kandagawa River is called Edogawa River.
There's Edogawa park along Edogawa river. Edogawa park is like a promenade.

There're many little gardens and little museums around here.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)

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Printing Museum, Tokyo

Printing Museum exhibits everything about printings.
In order to show the past, current and future of printings, there're four zones on a big dark B1 floor.

Four zones are "Feel", "Discover", "Understand" and "Create".
There're many visual exhibitions which total motion picture hours is more than 5 hours.

On weekends, you can enjoy programs controlled by super computer in the theater.

In this Toppan building, there's a concert hall on the 1st floor and cafe & restaurant on the 2nd floor.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)

<Admission>

300 yen

10:00-18:00     Closed on Mondays

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Sekiguchi Catholic Church

Sekiguchi Catholic Church St.Mary's Cathedral is on the other side of street against Chinzanso.
This impressive Cathedral was designed by Kenzo Tange, famous architect and built in 1963.
If you see this building from the sky, you'll see a big cross.
You can see a big cross by natural light when you look up the ceiling in the Cathedral.

There's a pipe organ and a replica of Michelangelo's Pieta statue inside.

The bell tower is about 62m tall.

There's a replica of Lourdes Cave in French where St. Mary showed up.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)
Waseda station on Arakawa Line (Street Car)

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Noma Memorial Museum

Noma Memorial Museum was built in 2000 as one of the events to celebrate 90th anniversary of Kodansha Ltd., one of the biggest publishers in Japan.

Exhibitions may be from the following three collections.

1. Japanese art collection collected by Seiji Noma, the founder of Kodansha mostly in the early part of 20th century.

2. Publication culture collection collected from the Meiji Era to Heisei Era (1912 - Now).

3. Works of Yutaka Murakami, an artist closely associated with Kodansha

This museum is very quiet and easy to relax since there's no crowds.
I don't know why numbers of visitors to this fine museum is so small.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)
Waseda station on Arakawa Line (Street Car)

<Admission>

500 yen
(You can get a stamp per visit and 2 stamps make the next visit free.)

10:00-17:00   Closed on Mondays and Tuesdays

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Eisei Bunko Museum

Eisei Bunko Museum is to exhibit treasures of Hosokawa family, one of feudal loads.
The president of this museum is Morihiro Hosokawa who was prime minister and the 18th head of Hosokawa family.

This museum is located on the top of the hill of Shin Edogawa Park which used to be a garden of Hosokawa family. Hosokawa family started from Yusai Hosokawa who was one of warriors in the age of civil wars in 16th century.

Collections include old drawings, calligraphy, items for tea ceremony, swords, armors, books, crafts and historical documents etc.

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<The Nearest Station>

Edogawabashi station on Yurakucho Line (Y12/Tokyo Metro)
Waseda station on Arakawa Line (Street Car)

<Admission>

800 yen (Regular exhibition)

10:00-16:30   Closed on Mondays

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You need to go through a stone gate to get into Shin Edogawa Park.