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• 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT 21_21 DESIGN SIGHT: a 2007 building by Tadao Andō, with a 54 m steel roof
• 2k540 AKI-OKA ARTISAN 50 craft workshops under the tracks between Akihabara and Okachimachi, since 2010
• Ajinomoto Stadium
• Akabane Ichibangai and OK Yokochō Ichibangai (400 m, 100 bars) and OK Yokochō (100 m, 30), born from the black market, 1954.
• Akasaka Palace The only habitable 国宝: garden 300 yen, palace and garden 1,500, closed on Wednesdays.
• Akatsuka Bekkō Tortoiseshell (bekkō) workshop since 1966: free one-hour visit, two-hour hands-on experience.
• Akihabara In 1949 the electronics sellers of Kanda moved under the tracks of the Sōbu line.
• Akihabara Electric Town It began in 1949: the radio valve sellers moved under the tracks of the Sōbu line.
• Akihabara UDX (秋葉原UDX) — UTX 22-storey tower opened in 2006, the heart of the Akihabara Crossfield complex.
• Akihabara ZEST (秋葉原ZEST) 170-capacity live house opened in 2017 in the basement of a building in Sotokanda, six minutes from Akihabara's Electric Town exit.
• Ameya-Yokochō Four hundred shops in five hundred metres, started by four hundred returned soldiers who went into business together.
• Aogashima The least populated village in Japan: the ship docks half the time.
• Aoyama Gakuin University, Aoyama Campus Aoyama Gakuin began in 1874 from the merger of three Methodist missionary schools; the university as such dates from 1949, and in 2024 the…
• AQUA Restaurant & Bar Luxis (アクアレストラン＆バー ラグシス) It is in the basement of ZAIN Ebisu, at Ebisu-Nishi 1-7-3, a few minutes from Ebisu Station; it is a real venue, still in business.
• Asakura Museum of Sculpture Asakura Fumio's home and studio, a museum since 1967: the garden has been a Place of Scenic Beauty since 2008.
• Asakusa The Kaminarimon lantern, 3.9 m tall and weighing 700 kg, is remade by a single workshop in Kyoto.
• Asakusa Hanayashiki It bills itself as the oldest amusement park in Japan: 170 years.
• Asakusa Hanayashiki (浅草花やしき) Amusement park opened in 1853, the oldest in Japan: its 1953 roller coaster is the oldest in the country and skims the houses of the…
• Asakusa Rokku The area has changed, but it is still recognisable in the street plan and in the theatre avenues, and it has become a destination where…
• Asakusa Shrine Shrine from 1649, a cultural property since 1946: less crowded than Sensō-ji next door.
• Asukayama Park and its three museums Shibusawa's two houses in the park are Cultural Properties; closed from 30/11/2026
• Atago Shrine 86 steps at ~40°: the highest natural hill in the 23 wards, just 25.7 m.
• Azabu Tunnel (麻布トンネル) — Roppongi An underpass on the Kanjō-sen, in Roppongi.
• Azuma Bridge (Azuma-bashi) — Asakusa It is among the 33 buildings selected as a ‘historic building’ by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
• Blue Note Tokyo Jazz club in Minami-Aoyama, opened in November 1988 as a branch of the Blue Note in New York.
• Busta Shinjuku (バスタ新宿) The long-distance bus terminal above the south exit of Shinjuku Station, opened in 2016.
• Café La Bohème Shinjuku Gyoen (カフェ ラ・ボエム 新宿御苑) A real venue, open for business, at Shinjuku 1-1-7.
• Caretta Shiodome, SKY VIEW Free, 200 metres high, a view over the bay and the Rainbow Bridge, on the 46th floor
• Carrot Tower, Sky Carrot Free view from 124 m up on the 26th floor, but since 21/7/2026 a fault has cut its opening hours.
• Center of the Tokyo Raids and War Damage Founded in 2002 on private donations, after the plan for a public museum was blocked
• Central Government Building No. 2, Kasumigaseki One of the ministry buildings of Kasumigaseki, completed on 15 December 2000 to a design by Kume Sekkei. Inside are the Ministry of…
• Cesame Jiyūgaoka (セザーム自由が丘) Commercial/residential building in Jiyūgaoka 1-chōme, a short walk from the station.
• Chichijima It is Tokyo, but it takes twenty-four hours by ship: there is no airport.
• Chidorigafuchi (千鳥ヶ淵) A defensive moat of Edo Castle: today you can hire boats among the cherry trees.
• Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery for the War Dead It holds more than 371,000 remains of unnamed war dead, from battlefields abroad
• Cinema Two — Tachikawa Cinema City (シネマ・ツー) The Tachikawa Cinema City complex has two buildings: this is Cinema Two, in 曙町2丁目. It is also the cinema that kept screening the film after…
• Crossing in front of Minami-Osawa Station A station on the Keiō Sagamihara Line, in 南大沢二丁目, the southernmost in Hachiōji (line number KO43); every train stops here, the Keiō Liner…
• Cure Maid Café Maid café in the Akihabara neighbourhood, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, on the 4th floor of the Onoden Honkan building (外神田1-2-7, 〒101-0021 Tokyo…
• Dengakubashi Bridge (田楽橋) Bridge over the Meguro canal. The Nakameguro footbridge, on the map for ‘Oshi no Ko’, is about 390 m away.
• Dolce & Gabbana Ginza (ドルチェ&ガッバーナ 銀座) The long-established shop at Ginza 5-4-9, the street-level one with the three signs lined up on the stone façade, not the one inside the…
• East Gardens of the Imperial Palace (皇居東御苑) It is the heart of Edo Castle; entry is free and it closes two days out of seven.
• Ebisu Garden Place (恵比寿ガーデンプレイス) Free viewpoint on the 38th floor, open 11:00–23:30, on the former Yebisu brewery site
• Ebisu Minami-ni Park (恵比寿南二公園) Neighbourhood pocket park between Ebisu and Meguro, small and open to the street, with no gates.
• Ebisu Park (恵比寿公園) Public park in Shibuya, at Ebisu-nishi 1-19-1: cherry trees, transport-themed play equipment (an aeroplane, a steam locomotive) and in the…
• Ebisu Yokochō (恵比寿横丁) About twenty small stalls under a single arcade: two minutes on foot from the station.
• Edo Bekkō Tanaka Tortoiseshell (bekkō) worked here for over 100 years: a 2-hour guided experience, from 10,000 yen.
• Edo-Tokyo Museum 400 years of Edo and Tokyo history at full scale: reopened in 2026 after 4 years of works.
• Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum (江戸東京たてもの園) Real buildings from different centuries, inside a park, and you get in for four hundred yen.
• Eggs 'n Things Harajuku (エッグスンシングス原宿店) It is at 4-30-1 Jingūmae, just outside Omotesandō.
• Fudaten Shrine Free antiques market every 2nd Sunday in the shrine courtyard
• Fuji TV Headquarters The ‘Hachitama’ sphere, 100 m up: 800 yen, closed on Mondays, 270° view.
• Fukagawa Library (江東区立深川図書館) Municipal library from 1909, inside Kiyosumi Park, at Kiyosumi 3-3-39.
• Fukagawa Onsen Tokiwa-yu A real spring (sodium chloride), renovated in 2023: timed sauna sessions, often with a wait
• Fukuyoshi Slope (福吉坂) — Akasaka A slope between the buildings of Akasaka.
• Ghibli Museum On the roof, the robot from Laputa: 5 m of copper beaten by hand over two years of work.
• Ginza The name comes from a silver mint of 1612; the avenue closes to cars every weekend.
• Ginza 4-chōme Crossing (銀座四丁目交差点) After the fire of 1872 it was rebuilt in brick precisely so that it would never burn again.
• GINZA SIX Two hundred and forty-one shops, a Nō theatre under the same roof, and a garden on top.
• Ginza Sony Park Reopened in Ginza on 26 January 2025, deliberately kept below the height limit.
• Godzilla Road and Shinjuku Tōhō Building (ゴジラロード・新宿東宝ビル) a 12-metre Godzilla head on the building, roar and lights every hour until 20:00
• Gokoku-ji 70 steps from the metro to the temple; the Gekkō-den, from Mii-dera in Ōtsu, reassembled in 1928
• Golden Gai More than 250 bars as wide as a door, behind Hanazono Shrine.
• Gotokuji Temple More than a thousand maneki-neko on shelves. They are only sold until 15:00.
• GREEN SPRINGS (グリーンスプリングス) Commercial complex north of Tachikawa Station.
• Gundam RX-0 Unicorn Statue The life-size statue of the RX-0 Unicorn, 19.7 m tall, in the festival plaza on the second floor of DiverCity Tokyo Plaza in Odaiba. It is…
• Gusto Shibuya-Sakuragaoka (ガスト渋谷桜丘店) When it was drawn it was a Jonathan's; today it is a Gusto of the same chain. Three minutes on foot from Shibuya Station, on the…
• Gyoko-dori (行幸通り) An avenue 73 m wide linking the Marunouchi Central Exit of Tokyo Station to the Imperial Palace; its official name is Metropolitan Road 404.
• Gyōsen Park and Edogawa Natural Zoo Free zoo inside a public park, rare in Tokyo, where you pay for zoos almost everywhere.
• Hachijōjima One of those defeated at Sekigahara ended up here, the first of about 1,900 exiles in 265 years.
• Hachikō Statue Statue of the Akita dog that waited at the station for years after his master's death.
• Hachiōji Castle A castle that fell in a single day, 23 June 1590; an hour's trail up to the Honmaru.
• Hachiōji Memorial Tower for the War Dead (八王子市戦没者慰霊塔) On 2 August 1945, in two hours, 169 B-29s burned eighty per cent of the city
• Hachioji Station — south exit (八王子駅南口) Hachiōji Station, in western Tokyo.
• Hagoita Museum — Kōgetsu (鴻月) A museum and shop for hagoita: the shop is open 6 days, the museum only on Thursday, Friday and Saturday
• Hamarikyū Garden The water in the pond rises and falls with the tide of the bay. Admission 300 yen.
• Hanakoganei Station (花小金井駅) A station on the Seibu Shinjuku Line, in Kodaira. It is the stop furthest from the Hiroo cluster: it lies in western Tokyo, a good hour…
• Haneda, Terminal 2 observation deck Free observation deck 6:30–22:00 over the ANA runways, with a view of Tokyo Bay at sunset
• Haneda, Terminal 3 observation deck Free observation deck open 24 hours, views over the runways; on clear days you can see the Skytree
• Harajuku and Omotesandō Every Sunday from 1977 to '98 it closed to cars: up to 10,000 young people danced here.
• Harmonica Yokochō Born from the black market of '45: about a hundred shops in 3,000 sq m, open in the evening.
• Harumi Bridge (晴海大橋) The bridge between Harumi and Toyosu. Below it, on the Toyosu side, runs Toyosu Gururi Park.
• Hatonosu Gorge 500 m gorge with 40 m walls: swimming and diving banned, almost no accessibility
• Hibiya Park Japan's first Western-style public park, opened on 1 June 1903.
• Hie Shrine (日枝神社) In 2026, a grand festival year, the procession on 12 June passes through Ginza and Nihonbashi.
• Higashi-Shinagawa Marine Park (東品川海上公園) A park on the Shinagawa canal, which local residents call ‘the Miffy park’ because of its rabbit-shaped play equipment.
• Hiroo Kita Park (広尾北公園) A neighbourhood park in Nishi-Azabu. Not to be confused with Kōgai Park, which is 390 metres further east.
• Hiroo Station (広尾駅) A station on the Hibiya Line. Hiroo is the Tokyo core of the setting, together with Hiroo Kita Park, 670 m further up. Administratively the…
• Hobson's Nishi-Azabu (ホブソンズ西麻布店) It is the first Hobson's opened in Japan, in October 1985. Address: Nishi-Azabu 4-1-1; Kōgai Park, on the map for the same series, is about…
• Hohoemi Park (ほほえみ公園) — Hino A small neighbourhood park in Minamidaira, Hino.
• Hōrin Park (芳林公園) Small neighbourhood park between Akihabara and Kanda Myōjin Shrine, in Sotokanda 3-chōme: it is the patch of green closest to Electric…
• Hossawa Falls Tokyo's only waterfall among Japan's 100: 60 m in 4 tiers, only the last one visible
• IHI Stage Around Tokyo (IHIステージアラウンド東京) Theatre in Shin-Toyosu with a 360° rotating auditorium, the only one in Japan. It closed under that name at the end of March 2024; the…
• Iidabashi Ramla (飯田橋ラムラ) A shopping complex attached to Iidabashi Station, at Kagurugashi 1-1, inside the Central Plaza.
• Ikebukuro Sunshine 60 stands where Sugamo Prison hanged seven war criminals in 1948.
• Imperial Hotel Tokyo Opened on 7 November 1890 opposite Hibiya Park. The building that made it famous, Frank Lloyd Wright's, was completed in 1923 (it survived…
• Inokashira Park Ieyasu came here to collect the water, the best in the Kantō for tea.
• Izu Ōshima In 1986 the volcano woke up, and in one night the ten thousand inhabitants left the island.
• Japan National Stadium (Kokuritsu Kyogijo) The Kasumigaoka stadium, in Shinjuku, built for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. In 2023 and 2024 it hosted Blue Lock's official collaborations…
• Japanese Red Cross Medical Center — Hiroo (日本赤十字社医療センター) The Nissekidōri frontage of the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, in Hiroo (official address Shibuya-ku, Hiroo 4-1-22). Hiroo Kita Park…
• Japanese Sword Museum Tokyo's only museum devoted to the sword: 1,000 yen, closed Mondays, in Kyū-Yasuda.
• Jinata Onsen It springs at 80 °C from a rock split in two, and the sea cools it according to the tide.
• Jinbōchō, the book town A student neighbourhood where second-hand bookshops stand side by side.
• Jindai Botanical Garden The name ‘Jindai’ survives only here: 400 varieties of roses, 5,200 plants, 500 yen
• Jindai-ji Its Buddha is a National Treasure, and in March it holds one of the three daruma markets.
• Jiyu Gakuen Myonichikan (自由学園明日館) — Ikebukuro The only Frank Lloyd Wright building in Tokyo open to visitors: an Important Cultural Property since 1997.
• Jiyūgaoka Station (自由が丘駅) After Hiroo, it is the most densely drawn neighbourhood in the series.
• Jonathan's Nihonbashi-Hamachō (ジョナサン 日本橋浜町店) A restaurant of the Jonathan's chain (Skylark group) in Nihonbashi Hisamatsu-chō, in the FRAME Nihonbashi building, three minutes from…
• Joyfull Minowa Shopping Arcade (ジョイフル三の輪) A covered shopping arcade in Minami-Senju, in Arakawa Ward, along the Toden Arakawa tram line: it is one of the oldest shotengai in Tokyo…
• Jūjō Ginza A 375 m arcade since 1938, 177 shops: food-walking with fritters and sweets in Kita-ku.
• Juntendō University Hospital (順天堂医院) A university hospital in Hongō, 400 m from Ochanomizu Station, on the other side of the Kanda from the Hijiribashi Bridge.
• Kabuki-za Theatre (歌舞伎座) Free gallery on the history of kabuki, inside the theatre rebuilt in 2013.
• Kagurazaka There are hardly any geisha left, but the stone alleys they walked are still there.
• Kameido Tenjin Shrine ‘Tokyo ichi no fuji meisho’: 50+ wisteria trellises over the heart-shaped pond
• Kaminarimon (雷門) — Asakusa The lantern, 700 kg, is lowered for a typhoon or for the Sanja Matsuri procession.
• Kanda Myojin Shrine The Kanda Matsuri is one of the three festivals of Edo, and is held every other year.
• Kandabashi Bridge (神田橋) Bridge over the Nihonbashi River, at the entrance to Ōtemachi. It takes its name from the Kandabashi Gate of Edo Castle, of which the sign…
• Kappabashi Kitchenware Street Either the raincoats spread out on the bridge, or the kappa of the river: the name has two stories.
• Karaoke-kan Shibuya Honten (カラオケ館 渋谷本店) In the middle of Center-gai, at Udagawachō 25-6.
• Kasai Marine Park Sea swimming in Tokyo lasts six weeks: from 19 July to 30 August, free, 10:00–16:00
• Kawashima Shopping Arcade (川島商店街) — Nakano An old shopping street in Yayoichō, at the southern end of Nakano, ten minutes on foot from Nakano-shimbashi Station; it keeps the…
• Kazuma-no-yu A village onsen an hour by bus from Musashi-Itsukaichi, closed only on Mondays.
• Keiō Takaosan Onsen Gokurakuyu Onsen at Takaosanguchi fed by a spring 1,000 m deep; Saturdays and public holidays 1,300 yen.
• Kichijōji Every year since 1990, Japanese people have voted it the neighbourhood they would most like to live in.
• Kichijōji PARCO (吉祥寺PARCO) On Kichijōji Ōdōri. Park Road, on the map for ‘Jujutsu Kaisen’, starts 138 m from here: a different series, hence separate markers.
• Kichijoji Park Road (吉祥寺パークロード) Covered shopping arcade south of Kichijōji Station. The Kichijoji Plaza cinema, another of the series' places, is a few hundred metres away.
• Kichijoji Plaza Cinema (吉祥寺プラザ) An old neighbourhood cinema in Kichijōji.
• Kichijoji Station — north exit (吉祥寺駅北口) Kichijōji's Park Road, on the map for Jujutsu Kaisen, is on the opposite side of the station, about 140 m away.
• Kichijōji Sunroad (吉祥寺サンロード商店街) The Kichijōji Plaza cinema, on the map for Jujutsu Kaisen, opens onto the same arcade.
• Kitanomaru Park (北の丸公園) It was the northern citadel of Edo Castle, now a park with two protected gates.
• Kiyosumi Garden Iwasaki of Mitsubishi had the stones around the pond brought from all over Japan.
• Kobayashi House Mountain farmhouse, a cultural property since 1978: you go up by monorail at 43 degrees.
• Kōdōkan Home of judo since 1882: you can watch training for free from the gallery, weekdays 16:00–20:00.
• Kōenji Second-hand clothes shops since 1987; since 1975 the JIROKICHI live house, with no stage, at floor level.
• Kōgai Park (笄公園) It lies 390 m east of Hiroo Kita Park, with which it is often confused: they are two separate parks, and the series uses them for different…
• Koganei Municipal Sports Hall (小金井市総合体育館) A sports hall inside Koganei Park, at Sekinochō 1-13-1: the main hall holds two basketball courts. The park's sports complex continues…
• Koishikawa Kōrakuen Garden The name comes from a Chinese saying: govern first, enjoy yourself later.
• Kokubunji High School (東京都立国分寺高等学校) Metropolitan high school in Kokubunji.
• Kokusai-Tenjijō Station (国際展示場駅) Station on the Rinkai Line, about 500 m from the entrance of Tokyo Big Sight.
• Kōkyo Gaien, plaza and Nijūbashi Bridge The iron bridge at the back, rebuilt in 1964, is the only one really called Nijūbashi.
• Komazawa Olympic Park (駒沢オリンピック公園) it is the stadium where Japan beat Argentina 3–2 at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics
• Kōtoku-ji A temple from 1373 with a thatched gate: two monumental trees among the tallest in Tokyo.
• Kototoi Bridge (言問橋) The stones of the parapet have been black since 10 March 1945 and have never been replaced
• Kyū-Furukawa Garden Conder's English villa at the top of the slope, a Kyoto garden below. 150 yen.
• Kyū-Iwasaki-tei Garden 1896 villa of Iwasaki Hisaya (Mitsubishi), no photos inside at weekends.
• Kyū-Shiba-Rikyū Garden Kyū-Shiba-Rikyū: garden from 1678, granted by the 4th shōgun Ietsuna, 150 yen
• Lake Okutama and Ogōchi Dam 1957 dam, Tokyo's largest water reserve: free observation tower, 10:00–16:00
• Lodge Akaishi Café (珈琲ロッジ赤石) — Asakusa A historic junkissa-style café in Asakusa, with wooden interiors like a mountain hut. It is at Asakusa 3-8-4, a few minutes' walk from…
• Machida Sekizai Alley (町田石材店前の路地) It is at 5-16 Hiroo, 220 m from Hiroo Station, which fits with the fact that in the first episode Rintarō uses that very station.
• Maenohara Onsen Sayano Yudokoro A real spring from 1,500 m; on the podium (1/35) of Itabashi spas on TripAdvisor (4.2/251).
• Marukobashi Bridge (丸子橋) Bridge over the Tamagawa linking Den'enchōfu to Kawasaki. Six minutes on foot from Tamagawa Station.
• Maxell Aqua Park Shinagawa The dolphin show is synchronised with 360-degree light projections across the whole hall.
• Meguro Parasitological Museum A doctor opened it in 1953 with his own money, and entry is still free.
• Meguro River (Nakameguro stretch) About 800 cherry trees along 4 km of the river in Nakameguro, out of the 1,500 across the two neighbouring wards.
• Meidaimae — Saitama's building (松原一丁目) The building is a few minutes' walk from Meidaimae Station, on the Keiō Inokashira Line; from Shibuya it is ten minutes by express. The…
• Meiji Jingū Gaien, Ginkgo Avenue The avenue has 146 ginkgo trees planted in 1923: the municipality ruled out felling them in 2024.
• Meiji Shrine (明治神宮) The ‘ancient’ forest is a century old: planted in 1920 with a hundred thousand donated trees.
• Metro Museum Car 1001, the Tokyo metro's first carriage, is a national cultural property; 220 yen
• Mikura-jima Island In 1863 the 1,349-ton ship Viking ran aground on the island's rocks in bad weather, and the roughly 250 inhabitants of the time rescued 483…
• Minamisaki-Kofuji Trail (Hahajima Island) Just 86 metres high, the summit of Kofuji is the southernmost point in Japan from which to see the first sunrise of the year, on 1 January…
• Miraikan Closed for restoration from 1/10/2026 to 22/4/2027; ASIMO has not given shows since 2022.
• Mita Oka-no-ue Park (三田丘の上公園) Hillside park on the Ebisu promenade, overlooking the neighbourhood. It is about 650 m from Ebisu Minami-ni Park and 1.4 km from the…
• Mitaka National Astronomical Observatory Historic 1921 dome and solar telescope: free self-guided visits every day.
• Mitaka Station — south exit (三鷹駅南口) Station on the Chūō Line, in western Tokyo.
• Mitake Valley 4 km path on the Tama River between Mitake and Sawai, among the 100 best waters of Japan
• Mitsubishi Ichigōkan Museum The 1894 brick building, demolished in 1968, reopened as a museum in 2010.
• Mitsui Outlet Park Tama Minami-Ōsawa (三井アウトレットパーク多摩南大沢) Southern European architecture, three minutes on foot from the Minami-Ōsawa crossing, which is also on the map.
• Mizumoto Park The only park in Tokyo with a marshland landscape (水郷): almost 1 km², free, always open
• Mori Art Museum On the 53rd floor of Mori Tower: no permanent collection, open until 22:00.
• Mount Kumotori (雲取山) At 2,017 metres it is the only point in Tokyo above two thousand, inside a national park.
• Mount Mitake Rock Garden 1.5 km path between the Nanayo and Ayahiro waterfalls: a Tokyo 名勝 since 2000
• Mount Takao Fifty minutes by train from Shinjuku and you are on a 599-metre mountain.
• Mount Tenjō (Kōzu-shima Island) The 572-metre lava cone formed in the eruption of 29 July 838, and today its flat summit ridge holds three lakes, including a heart-shaped…
• Mukōjima Hyakkaen Garden An Edo-period flower garden, the only one in Tokyo: from the original 360 plum trees to 230 species today
• Mumei Sangō-bashi The 無名三号橋 (Mumei Sangō-kyō, ‘nameless bridge No. 3’) is a public footbridge over the Senkawa River, in Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, 2.75 km from…
• Musashi-Koganei Station (武蔵小金井駅) Station on the Chūō Line, in Koganei.
• Musashi-Mitake Shrine At 929 metres a wolf is worshipped, and you can bring your dog here to have it blessed.
• Musashino Hachiman Shrine (武蔵野八幡宮) A shrine with freely accessible grounds, still much visited by people from the neighbourhood. The Kichijōji Plaza cinema, on the map for…
• Nakameguro Pedestrian Bridge (中目黒小前歩道橋) Pedestrian bridge in Meguro, with the municipal office visible in the background.
• Nakano Broadway It started out upmarket in 1966; in 1980 it was saved by a second-hand bookshop of two tsubo.
• Nanasha Shrine (七社神社) A shrine to seven deities, depicted as ‘七社’ in the ‘Edo meisho zue’; the Meiji-era separation of Shinto and Buddhism moved it to the…
• National Art Center, Tokyo (国立新美術館) It has no collection of its own: it is the largest exhibition space in Japan, 49,830 m².
• National Hansen's Disease Museum Free state-run museum on the forced segregation of people with Hansen's disease (leprosy).
• National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (MOMAT) Japan's first national museum of modern art, since 1952, in Kitanomaru.
• National Museum of Nature and Science (Ueno) Founded in 1877, among the oldest science museums in Japan: 5 million items.
• National Museum of Western Art A Le Corbusier building, UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2016; the Rodins in the courtyard are free.
• Nerima Ward (練馬区) Residential suburb in north-west Tokyo.
• Nezu Museum Kōrin's National Treasure Irises screen is on display only from 11/4 to 10/5/2026.
• Nezu Shrine (根津神社) The present shrine, commissioned by the shogun in 1706, has been a cultural property since 1931.
• Nihonbashi Kirin Statue (日本橋 麒麟像) The bridge has been a cultural property since 1999: Japan's kilometre zero starts here.
• Nihonbashi Mitsukoshi Lions from 1914, requisitioned for the war in '41, saved and found again in a shrine.
• Nihonbashi Takashimaya An elephant lived on the roof for 4 years: the 1954 spire recalls its shape.
• Nippara Cave Eight hundred metres of cave at eleven degrees, the same all year round, inside Tokyo.
• Nippori Textile Street About 80 fabric shops along one km of Nippori Chūō-dōri, a figure from the association.
• Nishiarai Daishi Home to one of the 6 surviving sazae-dō (spiral pagodas) in Japan, from 1834.
• Nishimatsuya, Tachikawa-Kashiwacho (西松屋 立川柏町店) Shop selling baby and children's goods at 柏町2-34-1, in the north of the city, a few minutes' walk from Sunagawa-nanaban monorail station.
• Nisshin Kikinzoku, Tokyo Ginki silverware Tokyo Ginki silverware, 99.9% pure: a 12th-generation workshop, by booking only.
• Numabukuro Hikawa Shrine
• Ochanomizu Station A station on the Kanda River, between Chiyoda and Bunkyō.
• Ochanomizu Sun Clair (お茶の水サンクレール) Small sunken shopping plaza in front of the Ochanomizubashi exit of JR Ochanomizu Station: it lies below street level but is open to the…
• Odaiba Of the eleven batteries ordered in 1853 against Perry's ships, only six were completed.
• Odaiba Marine Park (お台場海浜公園) Swimming here is banned because of faecal coliforms: in 2021 the Olympic triathlon swam here.
• Official Attack on Titan attraction (Tokyo Joypolis) Three indoor floors in Odaiba, all SEGA: motion simulators and virtual reality included.
• Ōi Racecourse Flea Market Up to 700 stalls in the racecourse car park, not every weekend: check beforehand
• Oizumi Gakuen Station Since June 2021, also at the north exit in front of Grand Emio, the Nerima Ward Office has installed three art manhole covers: Lum, Maetel…
• Okunitama Shrine (大國魂神社) — Fuchu The zelkova avenue, a natural monument since 1924, was planted in the 12th century.
• Okutama Onsen — Moegi-no-yu The water rises from the oldest layer in Japan, ten minutes from the station.
• Ōme Kimono Museum In a 200-year-old storehouse: Prince Nashimoto's kimono for the 1915 coronation
• Ōmiya Hachimangū Shrine Its woodland is a Tokyo natural monument: grounds of about 5 hectares, the third largest in the 23 wards.
• Omoide Yokochō Born of the post-war black market, three minutes from the west exit.
• Ōmori Beach of Memories Park (大森ふるさとの浜辺公園) White sand brought from Shōdoshima, and no swimming: the river next to it pollutes the water
• Ono Shrine (小野神社) — Tama Tradition places its founding in the eighteenth year of Emperor Annei. It enshrines Seoritsuhime-no-ōkami, the deity who washes away sins…
• Ōokayama Campus, Institute of Science Tokyo (東京科学大学 大岡山キャンパス) It was the Tokyo Institute of Technology (東京工業大学) until October 2024, when the merger with the medical and dental university created the…
• Ōsawa aircraft bunkers, Musashino no Mori Park (掩体壕 大沢1号・2号) Of about sixty, four remain, and you see these two from behind a fence
• Oshinari-bashi (おしなり橋) A 2012 footbridge over the Kitajukken-gawa canal, at the foot of the Tokyo Skytree and opposite the Tokyo Solamachi plaza: the name…
• Otaguro Park (大田黒公園) — Ogikubo A Japanese garden in Suginami, created from the residence of the music critic Kunio Ōtaguro. It is known above all for its autumn foliage.
• Ōtemachi Station — Exit C10 (大手町駅) From Exit C10 the East Gardens of the Imperial Palace are about 570 m away, along the route the scene shows.
• Ōtori Shrine The tori-no-ichi was born here: the fair is open 24 hours in November, and the rest of the year the shrine is deserted.
• Ozawa Brewery, Sawanoi A sake brewery since 1702, the westernmost in Tokyo: tours from 700 yen, 4 slots a day
• Prune Pastry Shop (お菓子のお家 Prune) — Katsushika A pastry shop near Katsushika Ward Office.
• Rainbow Bridge 1.7 km on foot above the bay: 20–30 minutes each way, free, no cars.
• Ramen Kairikiya Mitaka-Ōsawa (魁力屋 三鷹大沢店) Along the Kōshū Kaidō in the Ōsawa area of Mitaka, quite a long way from the s⁠tation, towards the Nogawa River.
• Rikugien Garden Laid out in 1702 around a theme of waka poetry. Admission 300 yen.
• Roppongi The National Art Center is the only national museum in Japan without a collection of its own.
• Roppongi Hills (六本木ヒルズ) 238 m, 54 floors: 17 years of negotiations with 400 owners before it opened in April 2003.
• Roppongi Nishi Park (六本木西公園) A small neighbourhood park at Roppongi 7-17-8, among the buildings. Hinokichō Park, another background in the series, is about 400 m away.
• Round1 Ikebukuro (ラウンドワン 池袋店) An entertainment centre on ten floors inside the Ikebukuro Square building, with forty bowling lanes, karaoke, an amusement arcade…
• Round1 Stadium Itabashi (ラウンドワンスタジアム板橋店) Bowling and games centre of the Round1 chain in Itabashi: 36 lanes, karaoke, Spo-Cha, 280 free parking spaces. It is a 7-minute walk from…
• Ryōgoku Kokugikan and Sumo Museum Sumo museum in the Kokugikan, since 1954: free outside tournaments, closed Sat/Sun/holidays
• Sakuragi Fureai Ryokuchi Park A neighbourhood park in Miyasaka, Setagaya. The nearest stations are Miyanosaka and Kamimachi, on the Tōkyū Setagaya Line. The rendering is…
• Sankaku Chitai, Sangenjaya Alleys of bars born from a post-war black market, between two roads in Sangenjaya.
• Sanrio Puroland Indoor Sanrio park since 1990: price and hours change every day, and you need to book.
• Satake Shopping Arcade (佐竹商店街) — Taito One of the oldest covered shopping arcades in Japan (its origins go back to 1898), between Okachimachi and Iriya. It is the series' second…
• Seijōgakuen-mae Station (成城学園前駅)
• Seikei University Private university founded as an academy by Nakamura Haruji in 1906, reorganised in 1912 as Seikei Practical School in Ikebukuro…
• Sendagaya Station (千駄ヶ谷駅) It is on the Chūō-Sōbu Line between Yoyogi and Shinanomachi: the three stations of the near-miss sequence are all within a kilometre.
• Sendagaya Tunnel (千駄ヶ谷トンネル) A 61-metre underpass on Gaien-nishi Avenue, between the Senjuin and Jingūmae intersections, built in March 1964 for the Tokyo Olympics. It…
• Sengaku-ji Temple The 47 rōnin are buried here: incense 500 yen, museum 500 yen, conflicting hours.
• Sensoji and Nakamise-dori (浅草寺・仲見世通り) Since 2010 the 89,000 roof tiles have been titanium, not ceramic: they weigh less in an earthquake.
• Sentō Koganeyu A sentō founded in 1932 in Kinshichō, renovated in 2020 with an in-house craft brewery.
• Sentō Kotobuki-yu Sentō with one of the largest outdoor baths in Tokyo, closed only on the third Thursday of the month.
• Shibamata Taishakuten and its street In 2018 it became the first national cultural landscape in the whole of Tokyo.
• Shibuya The crossing in front of the station lets over 3,000 people cross at each green light.
• Shibuya Crossing The five diagonal crossings have been there since 1973, when the Parco department store opened.
• Shibuya Hikarie a free view of the Shibuya crossing, no booking needed, from the 11th floor
• Shibuya Mark City (渋谷マークシティ) A shopping and hotel complex above the Keiō Inokashira Line terminus, in Shibuya.
• Shibuya Sky At 229 metres, with no glass over your head: it is the actual roof of a skyscraper.
• SHIBUYA109 (渋谷109) Opened in 1979, it changed its famous red logo only in 2019, for its 40th anniversary.
• Shimizu Gate and Ushigafuchi Moat (清水門・牛ヶ淵) One of only three surviving gates of Edo Castle: a cultural property since 1961.
• Shimo-Ochiai Hikawa Shrine Tradition dates its founding to the reign of the fifth emperor, Kōshō, about two thousand four hundred years ago, but the date is not…
• Shimokitazawa The Odakyū tracks have been underground since 2013: the streets above remain car-free.
• Shimokitazawa South Shotengai and Kōshin-dō (下北沢南口商店街・北澤庚申堂) The Kōshin-dō holds a stone signpost from the Genroku-Kyōhō period.
• Shimura 3-chōme Crossing (志村三丁目交差点) A crossing in Itabashi, at Shimura 3-1-16.
• Shin-Okubo Railway Underpass (新大久保駅高架下) Underpass beneath the railway, at Hyakuninchō 2-chōme, on the south side of Shin-Ōkubo Station, in the Korean neighbourhood of Ōkubo.
• Shin-Ōkubo, the Korea Town The largest Korea Town in Japan, and inside it there is also an Islamic alley.
• Shinagawa Aquarium The ward's own aquarium since 1991: tunnel tank, dolphin shows, 1,350 yen
• Shinagawa Station (品川駅) The Aqua Park is 320 metres to the west, inside the Shinagawa Prince Hotel.
• Shinanomachi Footbridge (信濃町歩道橋) A pedestrian overpass in front of Shinanomachi Station.
• Shinbashi, SL Hiroba The C11 292 locomotive (66 t, 1,083,975 km travelled) has been here since 14 October 1972.
• Shinjuku The station is the busiest in the world: over 3.6 million passengers every day.
• Shinjuku Gyoen It closes on Mondays: it is national, not municipal, and the city's gardens do not.
• Shinjuku Station The busiest station in the world according to Guin⁠ness, which records 2,704,703 passengers a day for 2022; adding up all the companies and…
• Shinobazu Pond (不忍池) — Ueno In 1625 a monk designed it as a miniature Lake Biwa, island included.
• Shiofune Kannon-ji Temple Temple with 20,000 azaleas of 20 varieties; entry 300¥ only during the flowering
• Shiseido Parlour Salon de Café (資生堂パーラー サロン・ド・カフェ) In 1902 it was Japan's first soda fountain: the ice cream is still made by hand.
• Shōfuku-ji Jizōdō The only wooden National Treasure building in Tokyo: you can go inside only three days a year.
• Shoheibashi Bridge (昌平橋) Reinforced-concrete bridge from 1923 over the Kanda River, the city's first arch bridge; the name dates back to 1691 and recalls…
• Shōwa Kinen Park and Japanese garden A former US air base turned into Tokyo's largest park: 165 hectares, ticket 450 yen.
• Shōwa-kan — museum of daily life in wartime Founded in 1999 after years of requests from the families of the war dead
• Shūeisha Jinbōchō 3-chōme Building (集英社神保町3丁目ビル) Publishing office in Jinbōchō's book district.
• Site of the Yoshiwara Gate (吉原大門跡) The gate collapsed in the 1923 earthquake and was never rebuilt: only the name remains.
• Snoopy Museum Tokyo Peanuts museum in Machida, four minutes from the station: no car park of its own.
• Sompo Museum of Art The only museum in Asia with Van Gogh's Sunflowers, in the collection since 1987
• Spadium Japon An onsen with 15 baths, a sauna and a stone-bath area with 30,000 manga to read.
• St. Mary's Cathedral Eight curved concrete walls form a cross seen from above: Tange Kenzō, 1964
• Suga Shrine Stairs A public stairway among the houses of Yotsuya. Suga Shrine itself is at the top, on the left.
• Sugamo: Togenuki Jizō (Kōgan-ji) and Jizō-dōri Kōgan-ji, ‘the grannies' Harajuku’: 780 m of shops, a 1957 temple in reinforced concrete
• Sumida Aquarium It is on the fifth and sixth floors of Skytree Town, all indoors.
• Sumida Edo Kiriko-kan Edo kiriko since 1834: a workshop since 2004, where you can watch the cutter at work behind the window
• Sumida Hokusai Museum A museum devoted to Hokusai, born in Sumida: permanent exhibition 400 yen, closed on Mondays.
• Sumiyoshi Shrine, Ōme Branch shrine of Sumiyoshi-taisha from 1369: historic site since 1953, dragon painted in 1824
• Sunagawa-nanaban Station (砂川七番駅) A station on the Tama monorail, the most convenient one for the northern part of the pilgrimage.
• Sunamachi Ginza 670 m and about 180 shitamachi shops; discounts on the 10th of every month
• Sunshine Aquarium Japan's first rooftop aquarium, opened on 5 October 1978
• Sunshine-dōri, Ikebukuro (サンシャイン通り) The street made famous by ‘Durarara!!’, another Dengeki Bunko title.
• Suwa Shrine, Tachikawa Historic shrine in Tachikawa, at Shibasakichō 1-5-15, previously a set for other dramas such as Gokusen.
• Suzukichō Sakura Park (鈴木町さくら公園) A small public neighbourhood park in Suzuki-chō, Kodaira: the municipality lists it as ‘鈴木町さくら’, 254 m², at 鈴木町二丁目156番地35. It is 285 m from…
• Tachikawa Sozosha — former Tamagawa Elementary School (たちかわ創造舎・旧多摩川小学校) A disused old elementary school in Tachikawa, converted into a cultural centre and filming studio, now also ‘Tamagawa Mirai Park’. It…
• Tachikawa Station (north exit) Tachikawa Station, in western Tokyo.
• Tachikawa TACROSS (立川タクロス) Fans have identified the residential building where the two protagonists live in the film as the one next door, but the production has…
• Tadō Hiroba Park (田道広場公園) Park and square on the bank of the Meguro River, next to Fureai Bridge, a few hundred metres from Meguro Station.
• Tadonzaka (炭団坂) Steep stairway in Hongō, in the Bunkyō neighbourhood where the writers of the Meiji era lived. From its foot you go down to Kikuzaka, where…
• Takadanobaba Tezuka's publishing house is based near here.
• Takahata Fudōson, Kongō-ji A temple with a Fudōdō from 1342, a cultural property since 1946; the Okuden has paid entry, 500 yen.
• Takemura (竹むら) — Honoka's confectionery It has been frying the same sweets since 1930, in a wooden building protected since 2001.
• Takeshiba Passenger Terminal (竹芝客船ターミナル) The ferry terminal for the islands, opposite Takeshiba Station on the Yurikamome, less than ten minutes on foot from Hamamatsuchō.
• Takeshita-dori (竹下通り) — Harajuku 350 metres: from 11:00 to 18:00 cars cannot enter, and there is no smoking anywhere on the street.
• Takiyama Castle It held out against Takeda Shingen in 1569; ruins among cherry trees, part of the land is private.
• Takushoku Daiichi High School It is in Musashi-Murayama, in the western part of Tokyo, not far from Hannō, which guides give as the model for the series' ‘Shōnō city’.
• Tama Zoo Hillside zoo opened in 1958, the first in Japan to show animals without cages.
• Tanashi Technical High School (東京都立田無工科高等学校) A technical high school in Nishi-Tokyo; the nearest station is Seibu-Yagisawa. That in the fiction the school occupies a disused building…
• Taro-ken (タロー軒) A ramen-ya in business since 1978 in Kōenji-Minami, Suginami, a 5-minute walk from Shin-Kōenji Station: in reality it is a ramen and curry…
• teamLab Borderless, Azabudai Hills teamLab Borderless reopens in Toranomon: 8:30–21:00, entry from 3,600 yen.
• teamLab Planets TOKYO You go in barefoot: in some rooms the water comes up to the knee, even on an adult.
• Teien Art Museum In Prince Asaka's former Art Deco residence (1933), the garden alone costs 200 yen.
• Terme Ogawa Roman-style baths with a hot spring from a depth of 1,600 m, amber-coloured water
• The Eye of Shinjuku (新宿の目) An eye-shaped acrylic sculpture, three metres by ten, made in 1969 by Yoshiko Miyashita in the underground plaza at Shinjuku's west exit.…
• The Peninsula Tokyo It stands opposite Hibiya Park, on the corner of Harumi Avenue.
• THE★JOJO WORLD (Shibuya PARCO) Inside, themed attractions, a play area and a shop.
• Thermae-Yu A real onsen in the heart of Kabukichō, water brought in every day from Nakaizu, 24h
• Tobacco and Salt Museum Japan Tobacco's museum: one floor on salt, one on tobacco; 300 yen, closed Mondays.
• Todoroki Gorge Inside the gorge it is three degrees cooler than on the street, ten minutes from the train.
• Togoshi Ginza 1.3 km, over 400 shops: a pedestrian street every afternoon (15:00–18:00, holidays 14:00–19:00).
• Tokinoirodori An onsen in Inagi with a natural spring pumped from a depth of 1,700 metres.
• Tokiwadai Station (ときわ台駅) A station on the Tōbu Tōjō Line in Itabashi, the series' northernmost stop.
• Tokyo Big Sight (東京ビッグサイト) The Conference Tower, 58 m tall, is shaped like an upside-down pyramid.
• Tokyo Daibutsu — Jōrenji Temple (乗蓮寺・東京大仏) 13 metres tall, cast in 1977 so that disasters like that of '45 would not happen again.
• Tokyo Daijingu They call it ‘the Ise of Tokyo’, and it is the shrine where people pray for love.
• Tokyo Dome (東京ドーム) Opened on 17 March 1988: Japan's first covered, multi-purpose stadium
• Tokyo Fire Museum Free, inside the Yotsuya fire station: a real helicopter and real fire engines up close.
• Tokyo International University — Ikebukuro Campus (東京国際大学 池袋キャンパス) Ikebukuro campus, opened in 2023, at Higashi-Ikebukuro 4-42-31.
• Tokyo Medicinal Plant Garden It grows the opium poppy under supervision, for identifying drugs.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum Japan's first public art museum, opened in 1926 in Ueno Park.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (東京都庁) It was the tallest skyscraper in Japan until 1993. The observation decks, at 202 m, are free.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium (Tokyo Taiikukan) The Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium in Sendagaya, designed by Fumihiko Maki. Address: Sendagaya 1-17-1.
• Tokyo Metropolitan Theatre (Tokyo Geijutsu Gekijō) a concert hall with 1,999 seats and one of the largest pipe organs in Japan
• Tokyo Metropolitan Toyama High School (東京都立戸山高等学校) Toyama Metropolitan High School.
• Tokyo National Museum Of its works, 89 are National Treasures: a tenth of Japan's total, the record among museums.
• Tokyo Photographic Art Museum (TOP Museum) Japan's only public museum devoted solely to photography: 39,135 works in the collection (2026).
• Tokyo Sea Life Park A 700-yen aquarium, tuna in a doughnut-shaped tank: it will close by 2028 for the move.
• Tokyo Skytree Two observation decks, at 350 and 450 metres, and a glass floor in between.
• Tokyo Station (東京駅) The 1914 brick façade has been a cultural property since 2003, and was under restoration until 2012.
• Tokyo Summer Land Water park opened in 1967 with what was then the largest plastic dome in the world.
• Tokyo Tower All 94,000 m² are repainted by hand: a year of brushwork, every seven years.
• Tokyo Toy Museum In the old Yotsuya school (1936): 100,000 toys, and almost all of them can be touched.
• Tokyu Store at Tachikawa south exit (東急ストア立川南口店 — アレアレア) Supermarket inside the アレアレア centre, at 柴崎町3-6-29.
• Tominoyu Public Bath (富の湯) — Komae A historic public bath in Komae.
• Tomioka Hachimangū (富岡八幡宮) Founded in 1627, the largest Hachiman shrine in Edo: 65,000 tsubo of land.
• Tonogayato Garden Former Iwasaki villa, the first garden in the Tama area to become a National Monument, in 2011
• Toshimaya Shuzō Sake since 1935 in Higashimurayama: a Saturday guided tour, two hours, 1,000 yen.
• Toyokashima Shrine A shrine from 1466: the oldest wooden building still standing in Tokyo.
• Toyokawa Inari Tokyo Betsuin Hundreds of fox statues on a small hill; free entry, open from dawn.
• Toyosu Gururi Park (豊洲ぐるり公園) One of four parks in a 19.8-hectare complex at the tip of Toyosu.
• Toyosu Senkyakubanrai Opened on 1 February 2024 next to the market: it is the outer market that Toyosu was missing.
• Tsukiji Hongwanji Buddhist temple with stained glass and a pipe organ: inside, it looks like an India in concrete.
• Tsukiji Outer Market When the market moved to Toyosu, this stayed behind: it was not the market.
• Tsukishima Monja Street A whole street of restaurants that make one thing only: monjayaki.
• Tsukuda Sumiyoshi Shrine Octagonal mikoshi from 1838, a folk cultural property of the ward; three-yearly festival 6–10/8/2026.
• Tsukuda-Ōhashi Bridge (佃大橋) This is the Tsukuda-Ōhashi (佃大橋), the one that links Tsukishima to Akashichō, not the nearby Tsukiji-Ōhashi (築地大橋), which is a different…
• Ueno Ueno Zoo opened in 1882: the oldest in Japan, on 14.3 hectares within the park.
• Ueno Tenman Shrine (上野天満神社) A small shrine in Ueno-chō, Hachiōji. It is the centre of the Hachiōji group of backgrounds, the series' third hub after Isesaki and the…
• Ueno Tōshōgū Golden Hall from 1651, an Important Cultural Property: viewed from outside, ticket 700 yen.
• Ueno Zoo (上野動物園) Opened in 1882, the oldest zoo in Japan: by law it is classified as a museum.
• University of Tokyo, Hongō Campus red gate of 1827, Important Cultural Property since 1931 (now closed to passage)
• Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo — The Making of Harry Potter It stands where Toshimaen was, the park that closed in 2020 after ninety-four years.
• Yaho Daiichi Park (谷保第一公園) Neighbourhood park in Kunitachi.
• Yakuō-in on Mount Takao The Takao fire walk is on the 2nd Sunday of March, in the open area at the foot of the mountain.
• Yanaka Cemetery, with Tennō-ji Opened in 1874, about 7,000 graves: the last shogun, Tokugawa Yoshinobu, rests here.
• Yanaka Ginza and Yuyake Dandan It grew up on its own in 1945: the stairway takes its name from the sun framed in it in the evening.
• Yasukuni Shrine and Yūshūkan museum No emperor has visited it since 1975: three reigns, almost 51 years
• Yokoamichō Park In the central hall lie 58,000 remains: victims of 1923 and of the 1945 bombing
• Yomiuriland It opened in 1964, and the park stretches across two prefectures at once.
• Yotsuya Station (四ツ谷駅) The natural starting point for the pilgrimage in Tokyo: the steps of Suga Shrine are about ten minutes' walk away.
• Yoyogi National Gymnasium — First Arena (国立代々木競技場第一体育館) No columns: the structure hangs like a suspension bridge. A cultural property since 2021.
• Yoyogi Park (代々木公園) 54 hectares on the former 1964 Olympic Village, hanami among the cherry trees.
• Yoyogi Station (代々木駅)
• Yūrakuchō Gaado-shita (有楽町ガード下) The Shin Hi no Moto grew out of a dormitory for repatriated soldiers after the war.
• Yushima Tenjin In February 300 plum trees blossom for students chasing a mark.
• Zōjō-ji The Tokugawa temple has a view of Tokyo Tower, and the mausoleum is closed.
• Zōshiki Shōtengai Shōtengai where Iseya Mochi has sold rice sweets since 1952, among old and new shops

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