Tokyo Stroll Supplement: Down the Sumidagawa With iPad and Camera, a walk along the two banks of Tokyo's famous river

This page is designed as a guide for strolling down the Sumidagawa River in Tokyo with information on locations in easy walking distance of the banks. The table below starts at the Suijin Ōhashi bridge and goes south, downstream, to past the Kachidokibashi bridge just before the Port of Tokyo. Items listed in the left and right columns are in rough order of when they occur as you stroll from north to south and away from the banks.

Why such a guide? The Sumidagawa is a major part of the history of Tokyo to even before it was called Edo. Both banks are lined with a large variety of locations of possible interest to those exploring the city. In the Edo Period this region was the low city, the commoner part of the city, with a population consisting of workers, merchants, and craftspeople. Today the neighborhoods along the river are still rich with traditional crafts, shops, temples and shrines.

You can access both banks using the various bridges for crossings, zig-zagging along the way, and covering a large amount of territory in a few days depending on your pace. Be aware that if you are like me and get easily distracted by what you find interesting those few days could easily become closer to a week of enjoyable strolling. I actually did the full stroll in segments over several trips to Tokyo.

Bookmarks for Organic Maps, Maps.Me or Google Maps listing all the locations in this chart are all available from my Viewing Locations in Organic Maps, Maps.Me, Google Maps, or Google Earth page with instructions for importing the bookmarks. Having maps at hand on a tablet or smartphone with the bookmarks is extremely useful for using this chart.

I do list here where locations are described in Tokyo Stroll. You do not need to purchase my book Tokyo Stroll to put this web page to use. If you want to know more about specific locations the book may be useful. Items in the web supplement to Tokyo Stroll are links.

NOTE:
This page was originally created in 2009 with a handful of sites on either side of the river based on what I could glean from the Bilingual Atlas of Tokyo published by Tokyo Chizu Publishing. Later I added a few other locations but pretty much left it simple. With the publication of Tokyo Stroll I decided to add the items in that work as well as in the web supplement of the book. The result is a much larger document that can still be a guide to what is near the river. I hope it will be useful for some explorers of the city.
After all these years this is still very much a work in progress, I shall occasionally keep adding to the page so expect to find more here over time.