Tokyo considering Page No.91
Copyright (C) 2002,9

No.91 Yanaka(Japanese culture town ordinariness)

(It is the Tokyo guide to introduce by the image and the column).




Taninaka is the town which is left in the darkness of the color of the Japanese culture. The subordinate temple in Ueno Kanei-ji was reared here to the Kanei year (1624-43) and is Taninaka Teramachi's beginning and at present, the temple which reaches several matters of 70, too, exists. After that, by the redevelopment in Edo center, it was transferred to Taninaka, Machiya was formed in Monzen at the temple and the temple in the vicinity of Kanda became a resort with the call visitor and so on.
In case of Bakumatsu war in 1868, a lot of temples burned down but after that, to be the past because it was reconstructed and Great Kanto Earthquake and war damage weren't suffered but appearance are even now left. The appearance of the foreigner excursionist, too, is seen and there are many persons who take a walk through the town swingingly at one hand in the guidebook.

Taninaka cemetery which adjusted the part of Tennoji cemetery, Tokugawa cemetery and so on to that by Taninaka cemetery government service place's being the part of old Tennoji precincts the Meiji 5(1872) year is the beginning. It is started as the public cemetery at Tokyo and it is counted by one of 3 big cemeteries of Tokyo. It says that the cemetery user is about 6000 when the area is 100,000 m2. Widely in the cemetery, the route which was minutely stored like the labyrinth is forming a cemetery. Not vulgarizing and it is good that tombstone and a stone lantern with the previous moss with the growth of equal to or more than 100 years and so on are naturally put without the affectation, too. Tokugawa Yoshinobu and the celebrity are sleeping.


Taninaka cemetery


The cherry tree row at Taninaka cemetery


Taninaka cemetery is mazy place when entering once.
All numbers are put to each block.



In this way, a block number is put to the cemetery.
(This is a part only at the map).


The stone shop and the flower shop


The rows of stores and houses on a street of Taninaka


The wooden coffee shop which is in the intersection corner
It is feeling such as the early stages of Showa.


The one which was restored by moving a liquor store


The chimney at the Japanese confection shop and in the public bath


There are many, too, temples.


The outdoor lamp (the bulb) at the vestibule liked it.
It seems that it is the form which was popular before.


The narrow alley


The bullet mark in case of Bakumatsu war in 1868
(The breadwinner sutra Oji)



This series is updated. It looks forward to the next time OBJ DO.

To top of Tokyo considering