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 |
Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Aimaimyi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tokyo Skytree and Sensō-ji.
Tokyo Skytree
Photo: Akonnchiroll, CC0.
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.
Sensō-ji
Buddhist temple
Sensō-ji, is an ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest-established temple, and one of its most significant. It is dedicated to Kannon, the bodhisattva of compassion.
Asakusa Station
Railway station
Photo: Kansai-good, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Asakusa Station is a railway station in the Asakusa district of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by Tobu Railway, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway. It forms one terminus of the original subway line in Tokyo, now the Ginza Line.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Asakusa and Taito.
Asakusa
Asakusa is a part of Tokyo's downtown Taito district, best known for its many temples, particularly Sensō-ji, Tokyo's largest Buddhist temple.
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, but long past its prime now.
Ueno
If you want to get a feel for old Tokyo, Ueno in the Taito district is a good place to start. Entirely lacking in high-rise condos or whiz-bang shopping malls, by Tokyo standards it's distinctly downmarket, in contrast to places like Ginza, but that means that eating, shopping and drinking are all affordably priced.
Sumida
- Categories: special ward of Japan and locality
- Location: Tokyo, Japan, East Asia, Asia
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Latitude
35.71042° or 35° 42′ 38″ northLongitude
139.80174° or 139° 48′ 6″ eastPopulation
272,000Elevation
3 metres (10 feet)Inception
March 15th, 1947Open location code
8Q7XPR62+5MOpenStreetMap ID
node 721772119OpenStreetMap feature
place=city
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In Other Languages
From Achinese to Yue Chinese—“Sumida” goes by many names.
- Achinese: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Achinese: “Sumida”
- Arabic: “سوميدا، طوكيو”
- Arabic: “سوميدا”
- Armenian: “Սումիդա”
- Azerbaijani: “Sumida”
- Basque: “Sumida-ku”
- Belarusian: “Суміда”
- Bengali: “সুমিদা-কু”
- Bulgarian: “Сумида”
- Catalan: “Sumida”
- Cebuano: “Sumida-ku”
- Chechen: “Сумида”
- Chinese: “Sumida-khu”
- Chinese: “墨田”
- Chinese: “墨田区”
- Chinese: “墨田區”
- Czech: “Sumida”
- Danish: “Sumida”
- Dutch: “Sumida”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوميدا, طوكيو”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سوميدا”
- Esperanto: “kvartalo Sumida”
- Esperanto: “Kvartalo Sumida”
- Estonian: “Sumida”
- Finnish: “Sumida”
- French: “arrondissement de Sumida”
- French: “Arrondissement de Sumida”
- French: “Sumida-ku”
- French: “Sumida”
- Galician: “Sumida”
- Gan Chinese: “墨田区”
- Gan Chinese: “墨田區”
- Georgian: “სუმიდა”
- German: “Sumida-ku”
- German: “Sumida”
- Greek: “Σουμίντα”
- Gujarati: “સુમિદા-કુ”
- Haitian: “Sumida”
- Hebrew: “סומידה”
- Hindi: “सुमीदा-कू”
- Hungarian: “Szumida”
- Indonesian: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Indonesian: “Sumida”
- Irish: “Sumida-ku”
- Italian: “Sumida”
- Japanese: “Sumida-ku”
- Japanese: “すみだく”
- Japanese: “東京都墨田区”
- Japanese: “墨田”
- Japanese: “墨田区”
- Kannada: “ಸುಮಿಡಾ-ಕು”
- Korean: “수미다 구”
- Korean: “수미다구”
- Korean: “스미다구”
- Latvian: “Sumido īpašais rajons”
- Lithuanian: “Sumida”
- Lithuanian: “Sumidos seniūnija”
- Macedo-Romanian: “Sumida”
- Malay: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Malay: “Sumida”
- Marathi: “सुमिदा-कु”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sumida-khu”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sumida”
- Norwegian: “Sumida”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Sumida”
- Persian: “سومیدا-کو، توکیو”
- Persian: “سومیدا”
- Polish: “Sumida-ku”
- Polish: “Sumida”
- Portuguese: “Sumida”
- Romanian: “Sumida”
- Russian: “Сумида”
- Sinhala: “සුමිදා -කු”
- Slovenian: “Sumida”
- Spanish: “Sumida Tokio”
- Spanish: “Sumida Tokyo”
- Spanish: “Sumida”
- Sundanese: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Swedish: “Sumida”
- Tagalog: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Tagalog: “Sumida”
- Tamil: “சுமிதா -கு”
- Tatar: “Сумида”
- Telugu: “సుమిడా-కు”
- Thai: “เขตซูมิดะ”
- Thai: “ซูมิดะ”
- Turkish: “Sumida”
- Ukrainian: “Район Суміда”
- Ukrainian: “Суміда-ку”
- Ukrainian: “Суміда”
- Urdu: “سومیدا، ٹوکیو”
- Vietnamese: “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Vietnamese: “Sumida”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sumida, Tokyo”
- Waray (Philippines): “Sumida”
- Yue Chinese: “墨田區”
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