(TT1) Tsukishima and Tsukudajima Alley Walking Map

Tsukishima Alley Walking Map (free map funded by Roji Beer project (meaning Alley Beer), a pun on 'Ji Beer'https://t.co/1QQYkqB5cs pic.twitter.com/qKWLWUMMSj

— the tokyo files (@thetokyofiles) October 8, 2016

The full map can be accessed here:

• Tsukishima Alley Walking Map (Walk 21 Vienna)
• Or: click here for PDF version: Tsukishima Alley Map (PDF)

Some of the items of interest on the map are ‘Monja street’ (centered around here: map), famous for many restaurants that sell monjayaki. There are some very nice examples of ‘billboard architecture‘ on this street, but they are partially hidden by rain awnings:

I've been to Monja Street in Tsukishima 2 or 3 times, but I never noticed the "billboard architecture" hiding behind the rain awnings. pic.twitter.com/mRTrRXm65V

— the tokyo files (@thetokyofiles) October 8, 2016

See also:

• A fishing village, then a Sky Tree mystery (a post about remnants of the old Tsukudajima fishing village, plus some fortune-telling by the artist Utagawa Kuniyoshi 歌川国芳 in his work 東都三ツ股の図 （とうとみつまたのず） (“Caulking Boats at Mitsumata in the Eastern Capital“)
• Japanese signboard/billboard architecture, an introduction 看板建築 (kanban kenchiku)

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