Sumida
Sumida is a ward to the east of central Tokyo. It has a famous cherry blossom viewing area along the Sumida River near Asakusa Station in spring, and the Sumida River Fireworks Festival in summer.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tokyo Skytree and Tokyo National Museum.
Tokyo Skytree
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Tokyo Skytree, also written as Tokyo Sky Tree, is a broadcasting and observation tower, located in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan. It has been the tallest tower in Japan since opening in 2012, and reached its full height of 634 m in early 2011, making it the tallest tower in the world, displacing the Canton Tower, and the third tallest structure in the world behind Merdeka 118 and Burj Khalifa.
Tokyo National Museum
Museum
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The Tokyo National Museum or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is one of the four museums operated by the National Institutes for Cultural Heritage, is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.
National Museum of Western Art
Museum
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The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition. The museum is in the Ueno Park in Taitō, central Tokyo. It received 1,162,345 visitors in 2016.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Taito and Akihabara.
Taito
Photo: Yoshikazu TAKADA, CC BY 2.0.
Taitō is a northeastern ward of Tokyo. Talk to a Tokyoite about "downtown", and he will think of the Taito district: the train station of Ueno, where migrants from the deep north first arrived in their search for a better life, and the temples of Asakusa, once a boom town full of prostitutes and gangsters, now again a boom town full of tourists.
Akihabara
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Akihabara, or Akiba in slang, is Tokyo's "Electric Town" on the eastern side of the central Chiyoda ward. The area houses thousands of shops selling every technological gadget you can imagine, from computers to gaming consoles and vacuums to DVDs, at reasonable prices.
Sumida
- Also known as: “Sumida-ku”
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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In Other Languages
“Sumida” goes by many names.
- Japanese: “墨田区”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sumida City Office and Azuma Bridge.
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