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    The Shitamachi Museum (下町風俗資料館, Shitamachi Fūzoku Shiryōkan) is a museum in Ueno, Taito, Tokyo, Japan. Located on the shores of Shinobazu Pond within Ueno...
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    Yamanote (山の手) and Shitamachi (下町) are traditional names for two areas of Tokyo, Japan. Yamanote refers to the affluent, upper-class areas of Tokyo west...
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    different times of day. The museum opened in 1986, six years after the Shitamachi Museum and seven years before the Edo-Tokyo Museum, all part of a national...
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    Other museums include the Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, dating back to 1926, and Shitamachi Museum of 1980, which is dedicated to the culture of the...
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    related to Edo and Tokyo. The museum opened thirteen years after the Shitamachi Museum and six years after the Fukagawa Edo Museum, all part of a national trend...
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    the Ueno section of Taitō, Tokyo, Japan), and a historically prominent Shitamachi feature often appearing in history and works of art. The park occupies...
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    following is a list of museums and art galleries in Tokyo. List of museums in Japan Wikimedia Commons has media related to Museums in Tokyo. Tokyo Tourism...
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    Metropolitan Art Museum Tokyo Research Institute for Cultural Properties Shitamachi Museum Ueno Tōshō-gū Kan'ei-ji List of railway stations in Japan Terada,...
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    Bunkyō (section Museums)
    transformation into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Bunkyo ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Nezu and Sendagi...
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    English-speaking staff available in some stores. Ueno is part of the historical Shitamachi (literally "low city") district of Tokyo, a working class area rather...
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    in Bunkyo ward, is one of the few Tokyo neighborhoods in which the old Shitamachi atmosphere can still be felt. Located north of Ueno, Yanaka includes the...
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    into Tokyo Metropolis. The modern Minato ward exhibits the contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural division. The Shinbashi neighborhood...
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    Chiyoda, Bunkyō, Arakawa, Sumida and Chūō. Taitō is famous for its typical Shitamachi districts. The Asakusa Culture Tourist Information Center provides amenities...
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    the introduction of radio. The Shitamachi dialect, in contrast, has been associated with the Chōnin district of Shitamachi and retains many characteristics...
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    of gated communities called machi (町, "town" or "village"). This area, Shitamachi (下町, "lower town" or "lower towns"), was the center of urban and merchant...
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    ward exhibits contrasting Shitamachi and Yamanote geographical and cultural divisions. The Kanda area is in the core of Shitamachi, the original commercial...
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    Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo (隠された爪跡: 東京荒川土手周辺から下町の虐殺, Kakusareta tsumeato: Tokyo aragawa dote shūhen kara Shitamachi no gyakusatsu). The second...
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    Fukagawa (深川) is a district in Kōtō, Tokyo. It is traditionally part of the Shitamachi area of Tokyo. Formerly, it was a ward of the historical Tokyo City. In...
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    three older siblings, all from different fathers, she lives in the city's Shitamachi area. From her siblings, Kiyoko is closest to her sister Mitsuko, who...
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    the north. Kyobashi, together with Nihonbashi and Kanda, is the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo, before the rise of newer secondary...
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    Hidden Scars: The Massacre of Koreans from the Arakawa River Bank to Shitamachi in Tokyo (1983) and The Disposed-of Koreans: The Great Kanto Earthquake...
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    the south. Nihonbashi, together with Kyobashi and Kanda, is the core of Shitamachi, the original downtown center of Edo-Tokyo, before the rise of newer secondary...
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  • and most chapters open with an elaborate full-page illustration of a Shitamachi (downtown) street scene, typically with old wooden buildings and boys...
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    part of the Sōsaku-hanga movement. He focused mainly on depicting the Shitamachi area of Tokyo during the 1930s, and is known for creating a long Hakubyō...
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    citadel grew, two notable communities formed: the yamanote and shitamachi. Two shitamachi communities were Nihonbashi and Kyobashi. Nihonbashi's large commodities...
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  • Satellaview History Museum. 12 February 2008. Kameb. サウンドリンクゲーム一覧 Archived 2009-02-06 at the Wayback Machine. The Satellaview History Museum. 12 February 2008...
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    Juso". Tales From The Future. 5 March 2006. Retrieved 16 February 2020. "Shitamachi Scenery vol. 1". Japanzine. 1 October 2005. Schonherr, Johannes. "Tobita...
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  • ran in Ultra Jump from March 2017 to June 2019. Set in a bathhouse in Shitamachi, Gorō Kuma and his grandson are deeply moved when the Brazilian wife of...
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    and Fukagawa Wards. These wards formed part of the informally defined Shitamachi district of Tokyo, which was mainly populated by working-class people...
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    50 (Shin-Ōhashi-dōri) and 463 (Kiyosumi-dōri). The area is typically shitamachi, with a mix of mid-rise office buildings, apartment buildings, and homes...
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