Opening Information Place of ISHIKAWA Takuboku’s Main Hall of Gokoku-ji Temple Death [Open] All Year (except special events [Open] All Year or activities at the main hall) [Hours] All Day ※The principal image is unveiled on [Fee] Free the 18th of each months Tokyo Heritage Week [Hours] All Day Memorial to Ishikawa Takuboku [Fee] Free Monument and Gallery [Open] All Year (except the Year-End Former McCaleb Residence Let’s take a stroll around and New Year and the exceptional (Old Missionary House, Zoshigaya ) closing period) [Open] All Year (except Mondays, Koishikawa and Zoshigaya ! [Hours] 9:00～17:00 Sunday of the 3rd week and the [Fee] Free Year-End and New Year. If a holiday A rolling land of Koishikawa and Zoshigaya area is formed by falls on them, the following day) midsize and small rivers pouring into Kanda-gawa River and plateau. Koishikawa area is known for temples associated with the Tokugawa Koishikawa Botanical Garden [Hours] 9:00～16:30 [Open] All Year (except Mondays and [Fee] Free Shogunate, and temple towns were developed around such temples, territories and roadside of “Kasuga-dori Street” and “Otowa-dori the Year-End and New Year. If a Street”. Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun, specially had a close holiday falls on Monday, closed on Avenue of Zelkova Trees at connection to the area. Zoshigaya Kishimojin Temple was worshipped Tuesday. If there are consecutive Kishimojin Daimon by a wide range of believers and thrived in the Edo period. [Open] All Year holidays, the day after the last holiday This route introduces the historic sites such as Gokoku-ji Temple will be closed) [Hours] All Day and Zoshigaya Kishimojin Temple that allow us to experience the [Hours] 9:00～16:30 (Enter by 16:00) [Fee] Free atmosphere of the Edo period, as well as the Former McCaleb [Fee] General ￥400 (a group more than Residence and Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan built in the Meiji and the 20 pers ￥300), Elementary school & Jr Ginkgo of Zoshigaya Kishimojin Taisho era. While going up and down many slopes like Edoite, let’s High school student ￥130 (a group [Open] All Year discover historic charm of Koishikawa and Zoshigaya area and guided by teachers more than 20 pers [Hours] 8:00～17:00 experience the topography of Tokyo. High school, Jr College, University [Fee] Free students ￥250, Elementary school & Jr High school students ￥100) Kishimojin-do Hall, Zoshigaya Main Building of the Former Image of OMORI Hikoshichi; Tokyo Igakko (Koishikawa color on wooden board Annex, The University Museum, The University of Image of San’nin Shizuka Tokyo) Shirabyoshi; color on wooden [Open] All Year (except Mondays, board Tusedays, Wednesdays) [Open] All Year [Hours] 10:00～16:30 [Hours] 8:00～17:00 [Fee] Free [Fee] Free ※You cannot enter or re-enter the Koishikawa Botanical Garden from Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan the Koishikawa Annex. [Open] All Year (except Mondays, If a holiday falls on them, Tuesday) Front Gate of Ochanomizu [Hours] 10:00～16:00 University [Fee] ￥400 [Open] All Year [Hours] All Day [Fee] Free Management Section, Community Education Support Division, Tokyo Metropolitan Office of Education Nishi-Shinjuku 2-8-1, Shinjuku City Tokyo 163-8001 Tel: 03-5320-6862 2017.9 Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan Tokyo Heritage Week Let’s take a stroll around west of vast Musashino Plateau lying between Ara-kawa River (Iruma-gawa Koishikawa and Zoshigaya ! River) and Tama-gawa River was inconvenient for water and the grove of Musashino extended on most area before building Tamagawa-josui Water Supply. However, a lot of midsize and small rivers of which source are Koishikawa is on the north bank of Kanda-gawa River in Bunkyo City spring water, such as Inogashira-ike Pond, are seen on the east part of the and covers the area from the around of Iidabashi to Myogadani. Its north-east plateau around from the edge of wards. The rivers scrape the plateau and area is called Hakusan and the west is on Kohinata Plateau. Koishikawa Bo- form the topography with a lot of slopes, complicated plateau and lowland. tanical Garden is located on the site of Hakusan Palace where TOKUGAWA Kanda-gawa River, of which source is Inogashira-ike Pond, is the largest Tsunayoshi, the fifth shogun, spent his life before becoming a shogun, and river on the north of Edo Castle and flows southward from around Sekiguchi is around the boundary of Hakusan area. Kanda-gawa River from Iida-bahi (Edogawa-bashi) to Iida-bashi, is forked east and west into the canals of the Bridge to Asakusa-bashi Bridge served a function as a part of Moat of Edo Edo Period, and finally flows into Tokyo Bay. Castle. Although the main residence of Mito Tokugawa Family was settled On this walking route, we are starting from Koishikawa Botanical Gar- on the north of the river, this area was basically rural where it was far from den to Kasuga-dori Street, passing by Gokoku-ji Temple, and going toward Oshu-dochu Road and Nakasen-do Road on the east and the territories of Zoshigaya and Ikebukuro. We can access to Koishikawa Botanical Garden temple and the residences of samurai scattered. The temple town was formed by Hakusan Station and Myogadani Station on the subway, a little far, by Ka- around the temples connected to the shogunate and these territories such as suga Station and Korakuen Station. From the end of this route, Jiyu Gakuen Dentsu-in Temple and Gokoku-ji Temle, and along the streets to those tem- Myonichikan, we are going to leave for JR Mejiro Station or JR Ikebukuro ples, like “Kasuga-dori Street” and “Otowa-dori Street”. Zoshigaya is the Station. Of course, we can follow the opposite route. area covering the valley and plateau to the west of Gokoku-ji Temple. This area is wholly urbanized at present, but you are going to go up and The feature of this area is rolling land formed by midsize and small riv- down frequently a lot of slops on this route. How about experiencing directly ers pouring into Kanda-gawa River and the plateau. The central part of the the topography of Tokyo and the old days of Koishikawa and Zoshigaya! Station Ikebukuro Toei Mita Line Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre Moto Ikebukuro Sengoku FukutoshinTokyo LineMetro Sunshine City Historic Park Station 435 Toden Arakawa Line Arakawa Toden Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line The Museum of Seibu Toshima City Ikebukuro Kasuga-dori Street ● Station Sengoku Library ● Hakusan-dori Street Seibu Ikebukuro Line Ikebukuro Seibu Minami ikebukuro 1 Higashi Ikebukuro 436 Meiji-dori Street Meiji-dori Station ● ● Toshima City Office Shin-Otsuka Station Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan Tokyo Metro ● Tokyo Metropolitan Yurakucho Line Ohtsuka Hospital Kishimojin-do Hall, Zoshigaya Image of OMORI Hikoshichi Otsuka Senju-bosho Shinobazu-dori Street Cemetery Image of San’nin Shizuka Shirabyoshi Toden Zoshigaya Station ● Ginkgo of Zoshigaya Kishimojin Hakusan→ Toshimagaoka JR Yamanote Line Yamanote JR Zoshigaya Station Cemetery 8 Cemetery ● Otsuka-Sanchome Main Hall of ● Avenue of Gokoku-ji Temple Kubomachi Main Building of the Higashi-Koen Former Tokyo Igakko Zelkova Trees ● ● ● (Koishikawa Annex) at Kishimojin Daimon Hojo-ji Temple Kyoikunomori ● Park JR Mejiro Kishibojinmae Shinobazu-dori Street Station 305 Station University of Front Gate of Zoshigaya Gokokuji ● Tsukuba Station Gokoku-ji-Nishi Ochanomizu Old Missionary Station Koishikawa Gakushuin University Yutate-zaka Slope Botanical University Mejiro-dori Street House, Former McCaleb Residence, Zoshigaya Garden Koishikawa ● Takehaya Library Japan Women's Otowa-dori Street Park University ● Tokyo Metropolitan Expressway Route 5 Ikebukuro Line Myogadani ● Shokubutsuen-Mae Harima-zaka Gakushuinshita Station Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Slope Station Place of ISHIKAWA Takuboku's Death Kanda-gawa River Omokagebashi 254 Takadanobaba Station Hotel Station Toden Arakawa Line Chinzanso Tokyo Metro Tokyo Tozai Line ● ↓Idabashi ↓Korakuen Station 1 2 Tokyo Heritage Week kawa, Bunkyo City) in 1911. He passed away here from tuberculosis at the young age of twenty-six in 1912. The single-storied house Let’s walk about Koishikawa! he lived in those days was burned down by the air raid in 1945. At present, an apartment building is built on its site and only the sign Koishikawa Botanical Garden can be accessed from explaining the story as a historic place is set at that entrance. A mon- the three stations because of its extensive area. We ument inscribed with Takuboku’s death poems and a gallery are built recommend you to take the route from Myogadani Station at the eastern border of that building. At the gallery, photographs, to the front gate of Koishikawa Botanical Garden via panels and a chronological table are exhibited, mainly composed of Place of ISHIKAWA Takuboku’s Death. It is difficult to find the relations between where Place of ISHIKAWA Takuboku’s Death is located, Takuboku and Bunkyo but you should go south from Myogadani Station along Kasuga-dori Street, and head for Koishikawa Library from City. The autograph Takehaya Park. From the Place of ISHIKAWA Takuboku’s manuscript (copy) of Death, going to Harima-zaka Slope and down the slope to Takuboku’s two death the east, and then you will find the Botanical Garden. poems and “Letter for The main gate is the only way into the Garden, but YAMAMOTO Senzabu- you can go out from the main gate and the gate at Main ro and Tomiko” (copy) Building of the Former Tokyo Igakko (Koishikawa Annex are also exhibited. Memorial to ISHIKAWA Takuboku Monument and Gallery of the University Museum, the University of Tokyo). Moving around the Garden and going out from the gate at Koishikawa Annex, you just arrive at Yutate-zaka Slope. Going up the slope looking Akagane-goten Building on Koishikawa Botanical Garden National Place of Scenic Beauty and Historic Site the left side, you arrive at Myogadani Station through Designated on September 19, 2012 Kasuga-dori Street.