Tokyo · Updated: 2026-10-15
Around Asukayama Station (飛鳥山駅) there are six walking spots, from a park to museums and temples. All six are within a 1- to 6-minute walk of the station, and the three museums are each open 10:00–17:00, Tuesday to Sunday. With Asukayama Park spreading out just beyond the ticket gates, this is an area where you can trace both greenery and local history in half a day.
This guide covers 6 walking spots; 6 of them are an average 3-minute walk from the nearest station (1–6 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
Start at Honchi-in Temple, a 1-minute walk from Asukayama Station, then head to Asukayama Park, 2 minutes on foot. Inside and beside the park, visit the Paper Museum (a 2-minute walk), then the Shibusawa Memorial Museum and the Kita City Asukayama Museum (both a 3-minute walk). Finish at Shojuin Temple, 6 minutes on foot. If you plan to see all three museums, set out in time for the 10:00 opening.
A 1-minute walk from Asukayama Station, this temple makes an easy starting point. Several shrines and temples are gathered in the Asukayama area, and Honchi-in is one of them, with quiet temple grounds. Turning in here mid-walk, you are wrapped in a calm atmosphere.
Tokugawa Yoshimune, the eighth shogun of the Edo shogunate, planted cherry trees here during the Kyoho era and laid the grounds out as a place for ordinary people to view the blossoms. In 1873 it became one of the first parks established in Japan, and it sits a 2-minute walk from Asukayama Station. The spacious grounds adjoin several museums, including the Shibusawa Memorial Museum. Admission is listed as "入場無料" (free admission).
A museum devoted to paper, located inside Asukayama Park. It was founded in 1950 and moved to its present site in 1998. Oji is where Japan's modern paper industry began in the Meiji era, and the exhibits cover the history and manufacturing techniques of paper from washi to Western-style paper. It is a 2-minute walk from Asukayama Station and opens 10:00–17:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
A 3-minute walk from Asukayama Station, this museum honours Eiichi Shibusawa, an industrialist of the Meiji and Taisho eras. Shibusawa built his main residence on this site in 1879 and lived here until his death in 1931 at the age of 91. Extensive materials trace the life and achievements of the man whose portrait was chosen for the new 10,000-yen note issued in 2024. Open 10:00–17:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
This municipal museum opened inside Asukayama Park in 1998 and is a 3-minute walk from Asukayama Station. Its displays cover the history, nature and archaeology of Kita City from the Paleolithic period through to modern times. Stopping in mid-walk gives you a deeper sense of how the ground under your feet came to be. Open 10:00–17:00, Tuesday to Sunday.
A 6-minute walk from Asukayama Station, this temple stands close to the greenery of Asukayama. It works well as the turning point of a stroll, somewhere to step into quiet grounds. It is a composed, settled temple long familiar to people in the neighbourhood.
Since all three museums run 10:00–17:00, Tuesday to Sunday, set out in the morning on days when you want to take the exhibits slowly. The park and the temples are rewarding on their own, so on days when the museums are shut, switch to a green route from Asukayama Park through Honchi-in and on to Shojuin.