How do I get to Taishakuten Sando?

The nearest station is Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line). Taishakuten Sando is in Shibamata, Tokyo.

How much does Taishakuten Sando cost?

Taishakuten Sando is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.

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Taishakuten Sando

Name: Taishakuten Sando
Address: Shibamata, Tokyo, JP
Price range: ¥

Taishakuten Sando is the 200-metre approach from Shibamata station to the temple gate, lined with low wooden shops selling kusa dango, hand-grilled rice crackers and hajiki-zaru monkey toys, and old restaurants serving eel and river fish. The Tora-san films set the family's dango shop on this street.

More photos of Taishakuten Sando

Candy makers chopping tankiri ame sweets at an old shop on Taishakuten Sando, Shibamata — Photo: Aimaimyi / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Glass jars of rice crackers for sale at a shop on Taishakuten Sando in Shibamata — Photo: Aimaimyi / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Taishakuten Sando at dusk with shop lanterns and the temple gate glowing at the far end — Photo: Akonnchiroll / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Nearest station Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line)

Cost ¥

Time needed 45 min

Best time Weekday mornings

Insider tip

Buy kusa dango from Takagiya to eat on the spot, then watch the senbei being grilled by hand in a shop window. Come in the morning or early afternoon. It's a daytime street.

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What's on near Taishakuten Sando

Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Taishakuten Sando, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.

Festival Free

Katsushika Noryo Fireworks Festival

かつしか納涼花火大会

27 Jul (dates to be confirmed) Edogawa riverbed, Shibamata, Shibamata

Station Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line), 10 min walk

Around 15,000 to 20,000 shells launched close to the grassy riverbank, so the bursts fill the sky directly overhead. Held on a Tuesday evening in late July; pairing it with a visit to Shibamata Taishakuten and its retro shopping street is the classic move.

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Smaller local events nearby

Koshin day at Shibamata Taishakuten Festival
Every Koshin (kanoe-saru) day, every 60 days. Next: Tue 13 Oct · Shibamata Taishakuten
Koshin days, every 60 days in the old calendar, are the special fair days of Shibamata Taishakuten, when many pilgrims visit the temple.
Free · Map · Source: Shibamata Taishakuten · 柴又帝釈天庚申の日
Tora-san Summit 2026 Festival
31 Oct to 1 Nov · Taishakuten sando, Tora-san Museum and Yamamoto-tei, Shibamata
Two days of the Tora-san Summit along the Taishakuten approach in Shibamata, with local products for sale.
Free entry (the Tora-san Museum and Yamamoto-tei charge) · 10:00 to 16:00 · Map · Source: Katsushika City · 寅さんサミット2026 開催について

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Nearby

Shibamata Taishakuten Temple · 2 min walk Shibamata Taishakuten is old shitamachi Tokyo at the city's eastern edge: a temple covered in astonishing wood carvings, at the end of a retro... Yamamoto-tei Landmark · 4 min walk Yamamoto-tei is a 1920s house built for a local businessman, mixing tatami rooms with a Western-style reception room, set around a garden that has... Katsushika Shibamata Tora-san Museum Museum · 4 min walk The Katsushika Shibamata Tora-san Museum is set into the Edo River embankment and devoted to Otoko wa Tsurai yo, the 48-film series about the... Yagiri no Watashi Landmark · 7 min walk Yagiri no Watashi is a rowed ferry across the Edo River between Shibamata and Matsudo in Chiba, the only river crossing of its kind still running in... Kanamachiyu Sento · 20 min walk Kanamachiyu is a temple-style sento from 1943, one stop from Shibamata on the Keisei Kanamachi Line, renovated in 2021 under a 'new retro' idea. Menya Itto Food · 4.6 km away Menya Itto gets ranked the best tsukemen in Tokyo more often than anywhere else.

Around Shibamata

Tora-san's hometown, a carved temple and the last rowed ferry in Tokyo

Shibamata sits at Tokyo's eastern edge on the Edo River, and it keeps the low-rise shitamachi streetscape the rest of the city lost. There's a 200-metre temple approach of dango and cracker shops, a temple covered in extraordinary wood carvings, and a hand-rowed ferry to Chiba. It's famous across Japan as the hometown of Tora-san, and in 2018 it became the first place in Tokyo named an Important Cultural Landscape.

Shibamata has 6 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 2 landmarks, 1 shrine or temple, 1 museum, 1 market and 1 bathhouse. Read the Shibamata guide.

Good to know

How do I get to Taishakuten Sando?: The nearest station is Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line). Taishakuten Sando is in Shibamata, Tokyo.
How much does Taishakuten Sando cost?: Taishakuten Sando is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
How long do you need at Taishakuten Sando?: Plan for 45 min.
When is the best time to visit Taishakuten Sando?: Weekday mornings.

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