Ikebukuro 池袋
Sunshine 60 stands where Sugamo Prison hanged seven war criminals in 1948.
Ikebukuro began as a farming village and became a commercial district in the Taishō and Shōwa periods, helped by the low cost of land; in 1932 it became part of Toshima Ward. Sugamo Prison, which under the Allied occupation (1945–1952) held about two thousand Japanese accused of war crimes, closed in 1962 and was demolished in 1971: Sunshine 60 was built on its site in 1978. Since the ’80s the area north of the station has been the main settlement of Tokyo's Chinese community, smaller than Yokohama's.
Tokyo
Ikebukuro
