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Edogawe

Edogawa is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan.

Edogawe
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The place

Edogawa is a special ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan. It takes its name from the Edo River that runs from north to south along the eastern edge of the ward. In English, it uses the name Edogawa City.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Edogawe

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Tokyo Skytree

    Tokyo Skytree sɯ̥̈.kä́í.t͡sɯ̈́.ɾʲíì, tó̞ó̞.-] ), a.k.a 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 metres 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.

    6.7 km · tower in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Tokyo Stock Exchange

    The Tokyo Stock Exchange, abbreviated as Tosho or TSE/TYO, is a stock exchange located in Tokyo, Japan. The exchange is owned by Japan Exchange Group, a holding company that it also lists, and operated by Tokyo Stock Exchange, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of JPX. JPX was formed from the merger of Tokyo Stock Exchange Group, Inc.

    9.6 km · stock market based in Tokyo · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Tokyo National Museum

    The Tokyo National Museum or TNM is an art museum in Ueno Park in the Taitō ward of Tokyo, Japan. It is considered the oldest national museum and the largest art museum in Japan.

    9.9 km · art museum in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    National Museum of Western Art

    The National Museum of Western Art is the premier public art gallery in Japan specializing in art from the Western tradition.

    9.9 km · art museum in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Sensō-ji Temple

    Sensō-ji, also known as Asakusa Kannon ), is an ancient Buddhist temple in Asakusa, Tokyo, Japan. It is Tokyo's oldest-established temple, and one of its most significant.

    8 km · Buddhist temple in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    National Museum of Nature and Science

    The National Museum of Nature and Science is in the northeast corner of Ueno Park in Tokyo. The museum has exhibitions on pre-Meiji science in Japan.

    9.8 km · National Science Museum in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Ryōgoku Kokugikan

    Ryōgoku Kokugikan, also known as Ryōgoku Sumo Hall or Kokugikan Arena, refers to two different indoor sporting arenas located in Tokyo.

    8.1 km · sumo indoor arena located in Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    Kasai Rinkai Park

    Kasai Rinkai Park is a park in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan, which officially opened on 1 June 1989. The park includes a bird sanctuary and the Tokyo Sea Life Park aquarium, as well as the Diamond and Flower Ferris Wheel.

    6.6 km · park in Edogawa, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Yumenoshima Park

    Yumenoshima Park is a sports park in Yumenoshima, Kōtō Ward, Tokyo, Japan. It was made by improving a landfill site called Yumenoshima, which was the final disposal site for garbage from 1957 until 1967.

    7.6 km · park in Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Edo-Tokyo Museum

    The Edo-Tokyo Museum is a historical museum located at 1-4-1 Yokoami, Sumida-Ku, Tokyo in the Ryogoku district. The museum opened in March 1993 to preserve Edo's cultural heritage, and features city models of Edo and Tokyo between 1590 and 1964.

    7.9 km · museum in Sumida, Tokyo, Japan · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Edogawe

Airports
Tokyo Haneda (HND), 19 km · Narita (NRT), 46 km · Ibaraki (IBR), 72 km
Stations
Ueno Station, 9.7 km · Akihabara Station, 10 km · Asakusa Station, 7.8 km · Okachimachi Station, 9.8 km · Tawaramachi Station, 8.4 km
  • Narita → Edogawe
    41 km · quickest by road, 1h 17m · ¥590–810
  • Omitama → Edogawe
    75 km · quickest by road, 1h 59m · ¥970–1,320
  • Makinohara / Shimada → Edogawe
    181 km · quickest by road, 3h 28m · ¥2,400–3,270
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Edogawe

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Edogawe. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Go nextThe street markets and museums of Ueno are directly west of Asakusa, while Sumida of Skytree and sumo fame is immediately across the river.
  • Go nextAsakusa is a large Tokyo hub of the private Tobu railway, and you can be transported to a different world in two hours: Ashikaga Kinugawa — a hot-spring resort fallen on hard times Nikko — with its national parks and opulent shrines Tatebayashi Tochigi — A worthwhile day trip from Tokyo for its preserved architecture and old shops.

From Wikivoyage: Tokyo/Asakusa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

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  5. 05
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Around it

Next door to Edogawe

Edogawe is 4 km from Ichikawa, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Taitō-kuspecial ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan9.4 km
  • FunabashiCity in Chiba Prefecture, Japan9 km
  • Sumidaspecial ward in the Tokyo Metropolis in Japan7.5 km
  • AkihabaraNeighborhood/district of Chiyoda ward, Tokyo10 km
  • Matsudocity in Chiba prefecture, Japan9.9 km
  • Ichikawacity in Chiba Prefecture, Japan5 km