Yokoamicho Park
Ryogoku, Tokyo
Yokoamicho Park is the memorial ground for the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, on the open lot where tens of thousands of people who had fled the fires died in a single firestorm. The 1930 memorial hall holds the ashes of victims of the earthquake and of the 1945 air raids, and the free museum beside it shows objects recovered from the ruins.
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Insider tip
It's a six-minute walk east of the sumo stadium. Weekdays are silent. Memorial services are held every 1 September and 10 March, the anniversaries of the earthquake and the great air raid.
What the guides say about Yokoamicho Park
Ryogoku Edo Noren, in the 1929 station building next to the JR platform, is the easiest place to try chanko nabe without a booking. Beer Club Popeye has around 70 Japanese craft beers on tap a few minutes from the hall, with happy hour from 3pm, Monday to Saturday. The Sumo Museum inside the Kokugikan is free on weekdays outside tournaments, and Yokoamicho Park, the 1923 earthquake memorial, is a six-minute walk east of the hall.
What's on near Yokoamicho Park
Upcoming events within a ten-minute walk of Yokoamicho Park, from the weekly Tokyo events calendar.
NHK Taiga Drama Special Exhibition: Toyotomi Brothers
江戸東京博物館リニューアル記念 NHK大河ドラマ特別展「豊臣兄弟！」
Station Ryogoku (JR Chuo-Sobu Line), 3 min walk
A special exhibition tied to the NHK historical drama series, focusing on Toyotomi Hidenaga, the younger brother of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The show is held at the renovated Edo-Tokyo Museum and runs through the first week of November.
Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0 Maruyama Okyo: Beyond Realism, Spatial Revolution
円山応挙 リアルの先へ 空間革命
Time 9:30 to 17:30 (Sat until 19:30) Station Ryogoku (Toei Oedo Line), 1 min walk
A retrospective of the Edo-period painter Maruyama Okyo, with more than 120 works from early perspective pictures to late screen paintings. It includes a re-creation of the room layout of Daijoji temple in Hyogo. This is the first special exhibition since the museum reopened. It opens on the last day of this window.
Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0 The Tokugawa Shoguns from Bakumatsu to Meiji: Tenshoin Atsuhime and Her Times
徳川将軍家の幕末・明治―天璋院篤姫とその時代
Station Ryogoku (JR Sobu Line), 3 min walk; Ryogoku (Oedo Line), 1 min walk
An exhibition on the Tokugawa shogun family through the end of the Edo period and into Meiji, told through Tenshoin Atsuhime, the wife of the 13th shogun. It's held in the renovated Edo-Tokyo Museum.
Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0 Edo Fashion (Edo Oshare)
江戸東京博物館リニューアル記念特別展「江戸オシャレ」
Station Ryogoku (JR Sobu Line), 3 min walk; Ryogoku (Oedo Line), 1 min walk
A special exhibition on dressing up in Edo, one of the shows marking the Edo-Tokyo Museum's reopening after renovation.
Joe Mabel, CC BY-SA 2.0 September Grand Sumo Tournament (Aki Basho)
大相撲九月場所
Time Top-division bouts from about 15:45, yokozuna matches around 17:30 Station Ryogoku (JR Sobu Line, Toei Oedo Line), 2 min walk
The autumn honbasho brings 15 days of top-division sumo to the sport's home arena, with bouts building from mid-morning to the yokozuna matches around 5pm. Cheapest same-day arena seats sell at the box office each morning, and the final weekend decides the Emperor's Cup.
Gregg Tavares, CC BY 2.0 Nearby
Around Ryogoku
Sumo town on the Sumida, with Hokusai and a tidal garden next door
Ryogoku is sumo's home. The national stadium is beside the station, the stables are in the side streets, and you'll see wrestlers in yukata on the platform. Around the Kokugikan sit the newly reopened Edo-Tokyo Museum, a Hokusai museum in the district where he was born, and a small garden built to follow the river tides. It's one of the easiest half-days in east Tokyo.
Ryogoku has 11 places on the Roam Tokyo map: 4 museums, 2 parks and gardens, 2 bathhouses, 1 landmark, 1 bar and 1 restaurant. Read the Ryogoku guide.
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Good to know
- How do I get to Yokoamicho Park?
- The nearest station is Ryogoku (Toei Oedo Line). Yokoamicho Park is in Ryogoku, Tokyo.
- How much does Yokoamicho Park cost?
- Nothing. Yokoamicho Park is free to visit.
- How long do you need at Yokoamicho Park?
- Plan for 45 min.
- When is the best time to visit Yokoamicho Park?
- Weekday mornings.
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