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Happoen is a Japanese stroll garden attached to restaurants. This site used to be where the residence of Hitachi group founder Kuhara Fusanosuke was situated. His residential building is also preserved as one of the restaurants.

The Teien Art Museum used to be the residence of Prince Asaka-no-miya. The museum building was completed in 1933 in Art Deco style.

Hatakeyama Museum, which houses a fine collection of Eastern art, also has a tea garden with several tea houses.

Sengakuji is a Soto Zen temple where the graves of 47 Ronin who participated in Ako incident, which would later be fictionalized as Chushingura, are located.

Tozenji is a Rinzai Zen temple. There's a three-story pagoda in its precincts.

It is said that Kiyosumi Gardens, a Japanese stroll garden famous for its use of brand-name rocks, was founded as the residence of a legendary merchant of the Edo era. Later on it became a residence of a domain lord.

Part of Fukagawa area in the Edo era, a mainly commoner district of the town of Edo, is reconstructed inside this museum (and yes you can take photos).

Tomioka Hachimangu is a Shinto shrine known for the Fukagawa Hachiman Matsuri, which is the Grand Festival of the shrine. Two large and gorgeous mikoshi are exhibited, also.

Immediately after the first arrival and departure of the US Navy near Edo in 1853, the Tokugawa Shogunate decided to construct 11 fortifications in the sea to counter their next arrival. When the Navy came back eight months later, three of them were nearly completed. Now two of them are preserved and one (Daiba No.3) is open to the public as Daiba Park after it was connected to the artificial island Odaiba, which was named after these old fortresses, constructed after WWII. The other one (Daiba No.6) remains isolated in the sea. You can also look down at these two from the sidewalk along the Rainbow Bridge.