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Shin-Koiwa has been transformed into a Moncchichi town. Go to JR Shin-Koiwa Station (JR Sobu Line) and see Moncchichi most everywhere. Outdoor sculptures, manholes, clock tower, escalator handrails, and bus station signs.モンチッチモニュメント13 views
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Skydeck Tatsumi pedestrian walkway to the Tohoku Open Space Area (Tohoku Hiroba) bus stops is decorated with Monchicchi. スカイデッキたつみ13 views
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Monchicchi Park is a local public park which also serves as an emergency evacuation zone where nearby residents can seek refuge if homes are damaged in a large earthquake, etc. The new Monchicchi Zone is on the left. モンチッチ公園13 views
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The building was a storehouse for celluloid doll materials before it became a doll museum. Since celluloid is flammable, the storehouse was made of stone bricks.13 views
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Monchicchi Park is near Naka River.13 views
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Flowers currently in bloom in the garden.13 views
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Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden was destroyed by the March 1945 firebombing of Tokyo, but was rebuilt and reopened in 1949.13 views
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Japanese bush clover (hagi) tunnel is flanked by plum trees. ハギのトンネル13 views
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Japanese bush clover (hagi) tunnel.13 views
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White plum blossoms named "Shirokaga."13 views
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The garden has 29 monuments like this dedicated to poets or literature.13 views
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On the Nippori-bound bus #22 (里22) from JR Kameido Station, get off here at Hyakkaen-mae bus stop.13 views
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Shirahige Bridge over Sumida River is on the border of three wards: Sumida, Taito, and Arakawa. The original bridge was wooden built in 1914. It was a toll bridge, but didn't do well business wise due to watashi-bune commuter boats in the same area.13 views
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Sumida River as seen from Shirahige Bridge.13 views
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Plum blossoms on the right side of the shrine.13 views
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I visited one or two days before peak bloom, so they don't look as fluffy or full. The weather forecast was for cloudy or rainy skies after this day.13 views
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Yokozuna Terunofuji wins his match.13 views
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Main torii when entering Yasukuni Shrine.13 views
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Hogwarts Bridge13 views
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You can also engrave your name on the wand. When I was there, the Slytherin wand was sold out.13 views
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Dragons13 views
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Shinkawa River (新川) was first excavated in 1590 by Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for cargo boats to transport salt from neighboring Gyotoku (in Chiba Prefecture) to Edo. 12 viewsThe river was lined with miso shops, shoyu shops, and eateries. The salt boats have long been replaced by trains and motor vehicles. Today the river is very quiet in a residential area.
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The cherry blossoms are mostly Somei-Yoshino, but I also saw weeping cherries.12 views
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In the forefront is Naka River, and beyond the divider is Arakawa River as seen from the Fire Watchtower.12 views
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Remains of the old Shinkawa Nishi Suimon floodgate. 新川西水門跡12 views
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Fire Watchtower and sakura.12 views
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Sculpture of a riverboat.12 views
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Girl Monchicchi-chan greets you.12 views
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JR Shin-Koiwa Station south side as seen from the platform. 12 views
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JR Shin-Koiwa Station north entrance (kitaguchi).12 views
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The garden has 29 monuments for poetry and poets. 千寿庵益賀の句碑12 views
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Small hut or gazebo. あずまや 12 views
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Japanese bush clover (hagi) tunnel.12 views
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Pine tree.12 views
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Garden pond is designed as a marsh.12 views
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Garden pond is slender.12 views
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These flowers were in bloom in late March.12 views
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Small gift shop and cafe with outdoor seating. 売店12 views
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Entrance to Yasukuni Shrine's outdoor sumo arena.12 views
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Asanoyama who has been climbing back up the ranks. 朝乃山12 views
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Aoiyama is from Bulgaria. He once reached Sekiwake. 碧山12 views
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Cherry trees all finished blooming by mid-April.12 views
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The phone in the red telephone box works, but you only hear a simple recorded message like “Welcome.” It’s not a payphone and you cannot call anyone.12 views
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The entrance lobby has digital audio guides for rent (not essential).12 views
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The hilarious and finger-biting Monster Book of Monsters.12 views
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Owls for sale at Diagon Alley.12 views
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Hogwarts robes.12 views
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Hedwig (Harry’s owl)12 views
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Japanese versions of Harry Potter novels.12 views
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From April 2007, a new project called the "Shinkawa Senbonzakura Plan" was started to plant cherry blossoms on both sides of the river to create an Edo Period look. The river walk was also made earthquake resistant.11 views
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Shinkawa Kyuyo Park. Riverside pocket park. 新川休養公園11 views
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Fire Watchtower at the end of Shinkawa River in Edogawa-ku Ward in Tokyo. 火の見やぐら11 views
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View of Shinkawa River from the Hinomi Yagura Fire Watchtower.11 views
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Looking north.11 views
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Going down the Fire Watchtower.11 views
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About the old floodgate and Fire Watchtower.11 views
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Another Monchicchi monument with seven smaller Monchicchi. These Monchicchi monuments are a good spot to meetup with friends at Shin-Koiwa Station. モンチッチ この指とまれ像11 views
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Monchicchi Clock Tower was installed in Oct. 2020 in front of JR Shin-Koiwa Station's north entrance. Tower has stained glass Monchicchi artwork. モンチッチ時計塔11 views
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Escalator handrail decorated with Monchicchi. Way to the Skydeck Tatsumi walkway to the Tohoku Open Space Area (Tohoku Hiroba) bus stops near the train station.11 views
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Skydeck Tatsumi pedestrian walkway to the bus stops is decorated with Monchicchi. スカイデッキたつみ 11 views
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Monchicchi Zone's centerpiece monument great for selfies. Meet the Monchicchi family. On January 26, 2004, the boy and girl Moncchichi got married on Moncchichi’s 30th anniversary. 11 views
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How Monchicchi was born.11 views
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Boy Monchicchi on the roof.11 views
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The new Monchicchi Zone is adorned with Sekiguchi doll statues.11 views
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Bronze statues of old Sekiguchi dolls complete with background info.11 views
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Playground equipment with a Monchicchi silhouette on the ground.11 views
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Park restrooms decorated with Monchicchi.11 views
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Monchicchi Park's Chibikko Hiroba, a small playground for infants.11 views
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Near Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden are seven shrines for the Sumidagawa Seven Gods of Good Fortune (Sumidagawa Shichi-fukujin 隅田川七福神めぐり). This is a map of the seven shrines.11 views
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Shirahige Bridge looks the same since 1931.11 views
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These Somei-Yoshino "America" cherry blossoms are right behind the park's Visitors' Center. The America trees stretch along Shin-Shibakawa River for a few hundred meters, one of the park's major cherry blossom clusters.11 views
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Yokozuna Terunofuji performing the dohyo-iri ring-entering ceremony. 照ノ富士11 views
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Yokozuna Terunofuji returns to his dressing room.11 views
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Cloakroom to store coats, bags, etc., for free.11 views
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Tableware in the Slytherin section with their robes displayed behind.11 views
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Slytherin Common Room11 views
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Potions Classroom with over 1,000 bottles of potions line the walls.11 views
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Centaurs are guardians of the Forbidden Forest. Facial features are more horse-like than human. 11 views
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Dementors (evil beings) also fly around in the Forbidden Forest.11 views
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Photo op: In the Backlot, pose inside the Flying Car11 views
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Living room filled with Hogwarts school acceptance letters (delivered by owls) addressed to Harry.11 views
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Photo op: Through the Wall. Push a baggage cart into the wall to enter Platform 9¾.11 views
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Sound effects.11 views
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Enhance to Studio Shop, the world’s largest Harry Potter gift shop. 11 views
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Hogwarts robes.11 views
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Mice, food for owls.11 views
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Frog Cafe (coffee and confections) near the studio entrance.11 views
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Top of the Fire Watchtower. Great views from the open-air windows. 火の見やぐら10 views
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Nearby floodgate to Arakawa River.10 views
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In the forefront is Naka River, and beyond the divider is Arakawa River as seen from the Fire Watchtower.10 views
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Map of the area. The top right is Funabori Station.10 views
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Going back along the river to the nearest subway station.10 views
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Monchicchi Clock Tower in front of JR Shin-Koiwa Station's north entrance. Lights up in the evenings. Good place to meetup in Shin-Koiwa. モンチッチ時計塔10 views
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Skydeck Tatsumi pedestrian walkway floor tiles decorated with Monchicchi. 10 views
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Shin-Koiwa Station's Tohoku Open Space Area (Tohoku Hiroba) bus stop map near Shin-Koiwa Station. Go to bus stop 12 to take the bus to Monchicchi Park. This is on the north side of the station. Other bus stops are elsewhere.10 views
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Shin-Koiwa Station's northeast Tohoku Open Space Area (Tohoku Hiroba) bus stops. Go to bus stop 12 to board the bus for Monchicchi Park. Every October, the Shin-Koiwa Station Tohoku Hiroba Festival is held here and Monchicchi also appears.10 views
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From the bus stop, follow the signs to the park entrance.10 views
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Moncchichi-kun now a dad.10 views
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Back of the Monchicchi welcome monument is another selfie spot.10 views
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Two panels show the wide variety of Monchicchi costumes. Like Barbie dolls, Moncchichi come in an incredible variety of versions and costumes.10 views
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These new Monchicchi/Sekiguchi statues were donated by Sekiguchi Co. chairman Sekiguchi Koichi.10 views
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Water fountain Monchicchi. This Monchicchi tower will spew water in summer.10 views
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Unique Monchicchi angel made of ceramics. Plaque reads, "May your wish come true. Wishing you happiness and smiles!" Maybe this is an object for prayers.10 views
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Sekiguchi Doll House monument. Sekiguchi Doll House was a small museum of vintage celluloid dolls produced by Sekiguchi. 10 views
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Sekiguchi Doll House displayed many celluloid dolls. The company got its start in 1918 making celluloid toy dolls.10 views
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JR Shin-Koiwa Station south side as seen from the platform.10 views
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JR Shin-Koiwa Station south entrance straight ahead. Koban police box on the right. A new station building will soon appear.10 views
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On the south side of JR Shin-Koiwa Station, inside a shopping arcade named Lumière. 新小岩ルミエール商店街 10 views
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The plum blossoms bursting at the seams at this small shrine called Omurai Katori Shrine in Sumida Ward, Tokyo10 views
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Main entrance to Omurai Katori Shrine with a torii.10 views
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When you enter the shrine grounds, you see impressive plum trees on both sides.10 views
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Tree with both white and pink weeping plum blossoms.10 views
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View from Omurai Katori Shrine's main worship hall.10 views
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Large weeping plum tree in Kobaien garden.10 views
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Adachi City Urban Agricultural Park is a riverside park at the corner of Arakawa River and Shin-Shibakawa River growing many varieties of cherry blossoms including those from Washington, DC planted here in 1981-82.10 views
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Pleasant place to be with all the trees and greenery. Wise decision to convert the former Tachikawa US Air Force Base into this park.10 views
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Death Eater on the balcony.10 views
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Notices at Hogwarts.10 views
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Harry’s closet-like room in the Dursley home named Cupboard under the Stairs.10 views
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In Prisoner of Azkaban, Aunt Marge at dinner with the Dursleys angers Harry who inflates her into a balloon that floats out of the house and into the sky. 10 views
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Luggage porter.10 views
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Hogwarts Express train on Platform 9¾ modeled after King’s Cross Station in London.10 views
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This compartment shows Ron and Harry feasting on a pile of sweets. That’s when the chocolate frog jumped out.10 views
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London Ministry of Magic, Atrium is unique to the Tokyo studio. (Not found in the London studio.)10 views
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Robotic Hagrid's head. The eyes blink realistically.10 views
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Hagrid’s giant half-brother, Grawp.10 views
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The shops are just a facade, and we cannot enter any of them.10 views
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Typefaces.10 views
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Looks different from different angles. Architecture was inspired by Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Durham Cathedral, and Alnwick Castle.10 views
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Studio Shop rooms guarded by Fawkes the phoenix.10 views
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Takao Baigo was established in 1964 by a local tourist group. They happened to have multiple plum groves in this area, so they decided to market them together as a tourist attraction named "Takao Baigo" (Takao Plum Blossom Area).9 views
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On the top of Kogesawa Bairin, there are benches and picnic area near the plum trees. 9 views
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Map to Monchicchi Park, about a 15-min. walk or short bus ride.9 views
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About Monchicchi and Katsushika Ward/City.9 views
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Skydeck Tatsumi pedestrian walkway floor tiles decorated with Monchicchi.9 views
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Water will spew out in summer.9 views
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Opened on April 9, 2016 with a ceremony attended by many local dignitaries, Moncchichi Park is in a quiet residential neighborhood in Nishi Shin-Koiwa near Naka River.9 viewsMedium-size park (4,580 sq. meters) with a graveled ground, cobblestones, and playground equipment.
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JR Shin-Koiwa Station south side as seen from the platform. This view will soon be gone when the new station building under construction is completed. The Lumière shopping arcade is visible.9 views
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Mukojima Hyakkaen Garden's Japanese bush clover (hagi) tunnel. Need to see it in early September. Otherwise, it's bare.9 views
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This is a pretty white plum blossom tree. Species name is "Shirokaga."9 views
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The shrine was historically famous for plum trees where even Hiroshige created a woodblock print. However, in 1910, a great flood ruined the garden. The current garden was built in 1994. Free admission. 9 views
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Plum trees on left side of the shrine.9 views
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Omurai Katori Shrine's main worship hall.9 views
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Catch the weeping plum blossoms.9 views
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Take a plum blossom shower under this weeping plum tree.9 views
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Plum blossoms weeping over you at Omurai Katori Shrine in Sumida-ku, Tokyo.9 views
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Entrance to the small plum blossom garden named Kobaien. 香梅園9 views
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This was one in full bloom.9 views
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Sorry to see you go...9 views
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From 2017, they started lighting up the cherry trees when in bloom in front of JR Musashi-Masuko Station.9 views
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Entrance to the Japanese Garden.9 views
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Reminds me of artist Murakami Takashi.9 views
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Toshimaen Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line has been given a bold-red Harry Potter makeover, complete with a red telephone box.9 views
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Approaching the entrance to Harry Potter Studio in a public park in Tokyo in autumn.9 views
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The Great Hall of Hogwart.9 views
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Albus Dumbledore, Hogwarts headmaster.9 views
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Great Hall9 views
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Quidditch player uniforms. Draco Malfoy wears green, Cedric Diggory in yellow, and Harry in red.9 views
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Dumbledore’s Office complete with his pet phoenix Fawkes which moves and squeals (animatronic).9 views
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Library.9 views
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Voldemort, The Dark Lord, and his snake Nagini. Each time one of his Horcruxes was destroyed, his greenish robe would fade in color (Deathly Hallows).9 views
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