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The wooden Toki no Kane bell tower among Kawagoe’s old houses

Beyond Tokyo · half an hour from Ikebukuro

Kawagoe: a journey from Tokyo

Streets of clay-walled merchant houses, the wooden bell tower and the lane of old sweet shops.

The back story

  1. The back story

    Kawagoe: Little Edo

    Kawagoe·In depth

    Streets of black-plastered warehouse houses, a wooden bell tower and a lane of old sweet shops, half an hour from Ikebukuro.

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What to see

  1. Little Edo

    Toki no Kane bell tower

    Kawagoe·Landmark

    The wooden bell tower of Kawagoe, among the warehouse houses of Ichibangai.

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