Sugamo (巣鴨) is a neighborhood in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. It is home to Jizō-dōri (地蔵通り), a shopping street popular among the older generation, earning it the nickname "Granny's Harajuku."[1][2] It lies at the crossing point of the JR Yamanote Line and National Route 17.
Available public transportation to Sugamo are JR Yamanote Line and Toei Mita Line.[3] There is also Koshinzuka station of Toden Arakawa Line in the middle of Jizō-dōri (地蔵通り) shopping street.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate set his residence here in 1897.[4][5] He has lived for 4 years there and moved away to avoid the noise coming from Yamanote Line.
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