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SUMO WRESTLERS AFTER A BOUT
Ryōgoku and Kiyosumi
There's a surprise in store just across the Sumida-gawa from touristy Asakusa:
Ryōgoku ( ྆ࠃ ) is a sort of sumo town, where shops sell outsize clothes and
restaurants serve flavourful tureens of chanko-nabe , the wrestlers' traditional
body-building hotpot. The area is also home to the absorbing, ultra-modern
Edo-Tokyo Museum. A short train ride south, and all within walking distance
of each other in the Kiyosumi area, are Kiyosumi Teien, a pleasant Meiji-era
garden; the delightful Fukagawa Edo Museum, an atmospheric re-creation of
a mid-nineteenth-century Shitamachi neighbourhood; and the Museum of
Contemporary Art, gathering together the best of post-1945 Japanese art in
one spacious, top-class venue.
 
 
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