Just steps away from the futuristic Takanawa Gateway Station lies a quiet world of temples and old Tokyo streets. In this episode, I …
Many of Tokyo’s neighborhood don’t
make it to travel guides. They are places where locals lives and their daily lives
not full of tourist attractions. And maybe not the Japan you first imagined, but after your
second or third visit you might find them more fun. Today I’d like to explore around Tokyo’s
major station Shinagawa Station. It’s a place where you can still see the old Tokyo scenery.
Let’s start from Takanawa Gateway Station. Hello friends. So this is a episode two of the Tokyo’s
off the beaten path walk that not many people has walked. Today I’d like to start from this Takanawa
Gateway Station. This is right next to Shinagawa Station and everything is made new; and this is
like a future form of the JR Yamanote line stations. Takanawa Gateway Station opened in 2020
on the site of the former railyard. Also named like Takanawa and Shibaura ranked
highest in the public pool. The station was controversially named Takanawa Gateway
addition that sparked a public debate. Today the station is in the center of the major
urban development project Takanawa Gateway City. This is a new city they are building
right now. JR East is making the shopping center and office building and
hotels in front of Takanawa Gateway Station. So right now we just came out of
here and we on the upper deck and there will be a new building the Link Pillar 2
is the name of the building and residences at the edge. And there station of Keikyu Line
and Toei Asakusa Line. There are lots of kind of nice little neighborhood around this area.
So let’s walk here today and go towards south. I see Rainbow Bridge going to Odaiba. On the other side of the
Takanawa Gateway Station there’s a Sengakuji Station. And we come out there
it seems this is entrance of Sengakuji Temple. Forest Stands – this is a
popular lunch place this looks like and this is a Sakuji station to Asak
station and it’s also the start station of KQ [Music] line it’s a lunch time so people coming
out to the street and looking for place to eat [Music] and now we are getting into Sang Gakuji Temple all the noise of the city
just disappeared and it’s quiet here the Sangakuji temple sangaku is known as
a barrier site of the 47 loaning samurai who avenged their lords after he was unfairly
punished and forced to take his own life at Edokcaster in early 18th century after fulfilling
their duty the lonely were ordered to commit sepu now they rest in peace in Sangakuji
temple wow the green is so beautiful wow statue of the late Sawaki Kodoros he
dedicated his life to the propagation and revitalization of the jazen as
an authentic and fundamental Buddhist practice this aid cemetery is and a colossi
cemetery is in this place and you can enter with a little admission here so there’s a English
guidance here that you can listen the story about this Sangaku temple so you can listen to a story
and you can walk around the temple sangakuji temple is well known throughout Japan oh oh
and this is a skink the water is make sound okay here [Music]
sangak stole known for the Zen Buddhism this Sangak area there are so many more
temples so let’s explore a little pathway around this area let’s go this little path next to the
temple on the east side of the temple there’s a little pathway and you can go to the behind of the
temple and there’s a little temple down there too so you go between this high school
and the the pathway continues [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] and now come out to the street behind the Sakus temple and here there’s another temple [Music] so there are lots of nice little
passes like this on this area so let’s explore more of this area
this is a dentist very nice retro buildings i think it was on here i thought it’s really right behind the condominiums everyone has different justice sri Lanka embassy here uh and this
is traffic right and the peacock supermarket it’s a quiet residential area here there’s a little park
here and the flowers are so beautiful and if you go down here there’s a
UA means ghost slope the reason it’s called UA is there lots of temples on both side of
the slope and the atmosphere is kind of the sand so it’s called U ghost slope and there are
seven ghost slope in Tokyo now I see Tokyo tower it’s a UAL and both side of the street
the temples and the atmosphere was left abandoned probably that’s a right word to
say that’s why it’s called ghost slope you and right now it’s very sunny uh late
April so it looks super bright but when I came here like a midsummer’s evening it
was a little mysterious atmosphere here I Remember and this is Jo i like this temple because many temple say no
dogs inside but it says you can come in with a dog it has a port of the hedera or n that we went recently there are lots of dogs kind
of hood on the shine soft it’s a very nice little cute temple here so to
shoot it’s a very beautiful inside this place is so beautiful there’s a shrine through here so something I have to share is when you visit
make sure to be very quiet most of the temples are open to visitors but be very respectful trying
to understand the concept and try not to make a loud talk and always stay quiet also never go
off the this steps and go inside the kind of this and the garden to take picture also so many
beautiful Japanese temples and gardens tokyo Cha Specialist this is a little
shrine I always remember oh let’s walk towards Shinagawa
station and this is another [Music] temple so in Edo period this was along
the Tokaido route connecting Tokyo which was Edo and Kyoto and when you come from Nihashi
to Shinaga direction you see the hill on the right side it’s called Takanawate which is
where we are now and there there’s a huge eno trees two ano trees there and it became
a good symbol of the travelers passing by for some time from some days people said to call
it nihongi And this became the location name here and now this place is called Takanawa area
but until it was called Nihoi the address was called and it’s interesting because it’s such
a city center inside the loop of Yamanote but feels like really countryside who
came or something really nostalgic nice retro sandwich shop and Taylor shop Asakura so I got two buri very cute backan temples Tokyo branch Tokyo B They’re doing the chant right now and
there are takawa church right next to the koasan and this is Grand Prince Hotel Shin
Takanawa there’s three prince hotel here grand Hotel Takawa and Shin Takanawa and
Shinaga Prince Hotel and this is Shin Takan this is a good area to stroll around especially
if you are staying in Shinagawa area unfortunately it’s not the area with lots of shops and
restaurants but the area it gives you a glimpse of the how Tokyo used to be this series
continues so I hope you find your favorite quiet spot in Tokyo if you like the content please
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