Temple
Marishiten Tokudai-ji
Taito•246m(3 min walk)
Shitamachi Museum
したまちミュージアムTaito, Tokyo
Museum
What makes this place special?
At a Glance
Shitamachi Museum is a Taito Ward museum on the shore of Shinobazu Pond in Ueno Park, Tokyo. It is devoted to the everyday culture of the Shitamachi, the old downtown, and covers the life of ordinary Tokyoites from the Edo period to the mid-Showa era. It opened in 1980 as the Shitamachi Fuzoku Shiryokan and reopened in March 2025 under its current name after renovation.
The ground floor re-creates a Taisho-period street. It includes the shop of a geta thong wholesaler and a tenement alley with a shared well, a sweets shop and a coppersmith's workshop, plus a rickshaw and an old telephone booth. The floor above has toys, games, kitchen tools, a bathhouse counter and a rebuilt house from the 1935 to 1964 period. An annex in Ueno Sakuragi shows sake-trade tools in a relocated former sake shop.
Goshuin within a short walk
Temples, shrines and castles near Shitamachi Museum that give goshuin, closest first.
Shrine
Ishibashi Inari Jinja
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Temple
Shinobazu Benten-do
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Number of goshuin available: 6
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Shinobazu Daikokuten-do
Taito•278m(3 min walk)
Number of goshuin available: 1
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Kiyomizu Kannon-do
Taito•284m(4 min walk)
Number of goshuin available: 1
Shrine
Gojo Tenj-in
Taito•388m(5 min walk)
Number of goshuin available: 2
Shrine
Hanazono Inari
Taito•397m(5 min walk)
Number of goshuin available: 1
Shrine
Yushima Tenmangu
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Number of goshuin available: 3
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Visit Duration
60 minutes
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