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Ryogoku, the Sumo Town

Posted By tok_lhuga On April 23, 2006 @ 2:05 am In Sight Seeing | Comments Disabled

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Ryogoku Station [1]

Ryogoku Station [1],
originally uploaded by lhuga [2].

I went to Ryogoku with my friends today.
This is the first time going there, and I was really surprised to see 2 paintings of Sumo Wrestler inside Ryogoku station.
This guy is the champion of March 1972.


Outside of that station, there were some statue of Sumo Wrestler along the road.

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However, I never seen any REAL Sumo Wrestler there.

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This is Sumida-gawa river, near Ryogoku station.There are many houses of homeless people……


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