Down the Sumidagawa With iPod and Camera:
A walk along the two banks of Tokyo's famous river

This page is designed as a guide for walking down the Sumidagawa River in Tokyo. Starting upstream from Asakusa at the Suijin Ōhashi bridge and going down stream to the Kachidori-bashi bridge just before the Port of Tokyo. You can cover both banks with bridge crossings and travel a large amount of territory enjoying various locations in two or three days depending on your pace.

MAP NUMBERS: Included are the map numbers from the Bilingual Atlas of Tokyo (BAT) published by Tokyo Chizu Publishing. As this atlas is not easy to obtain in the US, you have to locate it through stores that import books from Japan such as Kinokuniya, I am also including page numbers from the easy to obtain Tokyo City Atlas (TCA) published by Kodansha International. Both of these books cover the heavily built up older center of Tokyo which includes all of this walk, the Bilingual Atlas of Tokyo in greater detail. I highly recommend both of these books for travelers.
Map numbers are displayed from the map with the greatest detail and are in the following sequence:
BAT: = Bilingual Atlas of Tokyo
TCA: = Tokyo City Atlas

When something mentioned is not in one of the atlases I will list the area where it is and note it as Not Visible. In some cases for unnamed religious sites on the maps there is a torii symbol for a Shinto shrine or a manji (swastika) for a Buddhist temple, I will note when this is the case.

NOTES: I will also include notes with the abbrevated titles of books you can check for further information. I will also try to locate official, or just plain informative, web sites for many of the places in this guide.

This is very much a work in progress, I shall keep adding to the page so keep checking back.

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