How do I get to Yagiri no Watashi?

The nearest station is Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line). Yagiri no Watashi is in Shibamata, Tokyo.

How much does Yagiri no Watashi cost?

Yagiri no Watashi is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.

Landmark

Yagiri no Watashi

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 Tokyo and the subject of a hit 1980s enka song. There's no timetable. The boat goes when enough passengers are waiting.

More photos of Yagiri no Watashi

Wooden ferry landing and moored boat at the Yagiri no Watashi crossing on the Katsushika bank — Photo: Ka23 13 / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Stone stele carved with Yagiri no Watashi beside the Edo River ferry crossing in Shibamata — Photo: Namazu-tron / Wikimedia Commons (Public domain)

Passengers stepping off the Yagiri no Watashi ferry onto the wooden landing — Photo: puffyjet / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Wooden post inscribed Yagiri no Watashi beside the path down to the ferry landing — Photo: puffyjet / Flickr (CC BY 2.0)

Nearest station Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line)

Cost ¥

Time needed 30 min

Best time Spring and autumn afternoons

With kids

Insider tip

It runs daily from mid-March to November and only at weekends and on holidays in winter, and it stops in bad weather. The fare is small. Cross, look back at Tokyo from the Chiba bank, and ride back.

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What's on near Yagiri no Watashi

Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Yagiri no Watashi, 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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Nearby

Katsushika Shibamata Tora-san Museum Museum · 3 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... 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... Shibamata Taishakuten Temple · 5 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... Taishakuten Sando Market · 7 min walk Taishakuten Sando is the 200-metre approach from Shibamata station to the temple gate, lined with low wooden shops selling kusa dango, hand-grilled... Kanamachiyu Sento · 22 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 · 5.1 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 Yagiri no Watashi?: The nearest station is Shibamata (Keisei Kanamachi Line). Yagiri no Watashi is in Shibamata, Tokyo.
How much does Yagiri no Watashi cost?: Yagiri no Watashi is cheap, marked ¥ on the site's price scale.
How long do you need at Yagiri no Watashi?: Plan for 30 min.
When is the best time to visit Yagiri no Watashi?: Spring and autumn afternoons.

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