Sugamo Station 17 巣鴨駅 Sugamo is an area in Tokyo's northern Toshima Ward. The territory is best known for Jizo-dori , a prevalent shopp...
Sugamo Station
17 巣鴨駅
Sugamo is an area in Tokyo's northern Toshima Ward. The territory is best known for Jizo-dori , a prevalent shopping road for the elderly and known as the Harajuku for grandparents.
Sugamo Station (巣鴨: 巣 – settling 鴨 – duck) is a little station that initially opened in 1903. It has 4 stages, two each for the 山手線 and 都営三田線. It is most acclaimed for the Jizo Dori shopping road situated on the north side of the station.
Amid the Edo Period (1603-1867) the Jizo Dori was a part of the Nakasendo Highway that associated the city of 江戸 (present day 東京) with the city of 京都.
Today, the 800 meter long shopping road is home to more than 200 stores offering 食べ物, local products, 本 and 衣類 that are gone for an elderly group of onlookers. The Jizo Dori is so mainstream with more established women that it has gotten to be known as the Grannies Harajuku.
A standout amongst the most prominent shops on the 地蔵通り is Maruji, an attire store renowned for its splendid red clothing. The clothing are, as per legend, intended to animate the life vitality or Qi of the wearer and builds their life. These incredible skivvies are as far as anyone knows so compelling at boosting your adrenaline and expanding your forces of focus that purchasers are cautioned, "When resting, 'Red Panty' may bring about you energize and make you restless. So put on customary shading clothing when you rest."
巣鴨 is likewise near Koganji Temple, home to the Togenuki Jizo and Boddhisattva Kannon statues. Togenuki, "to haul out a thistle," and it is trusted that a sickness (the thistle) can be hauled out of the body by setting an appeal with a picture of the とげぬき地蔵 over the harmed part of the body (or some place on a wiped out individual's body) and asking over it.
It is popular to the point that long lines of individuals hold up to have such treatment. The Boddhisattva Kannon洗い観音あらいかんのん statue has comparative forces. It is trusted that on the off chance that you clean the part of the Kannon statue that relates to your damage, the illness will be cured. The faith in this cure is likewise solid and draws numerous individuals from far and close. The Boddhisattva Kannon additionally gives fast and easy passings to those in their seniority with the goal that they are not a weight to their families.
Have an annoying infirmity that is irritating you? You have nothing to lose and an intriguing knowledge to pick up by making a visit to Sugamo.
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