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Yotsuya, Tokyo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Yotsuya is an area of Shinjuku in Tokyo, a ward in its own right until 1947 and now a run of streets around the Shinjuku Historical Museum.
About Yotsuya
Where to stay in Yotsuya
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Yotsuya puts a traveller inside Shinjuku without the ward's loudest blocks, close enough to walk to the Fire Museum or the Shinjuku Historical Museum on an ordinary afternoon. The scale stays modest. Streets here run quieter after dark than the ward's core.
Anyone with tickets for the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium or a morning at the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery gains from starting the day this side of Shinjuku.
About Yotsuya
What are the main landmarks in Yotsuya?
Museums crowd this ward. The Fire Museum, the Tokyo Toy Museum and the Sato Museum of Art sit within one walkable spread, with the Shinjuku Historical Museum keeping the ward's own record. Sport claims the Tokyo Metropolitan Gymnasium and the Prince Chichibu Memorial Sports Museum.
One tree holds a listing of its own, the Castanopsis sieboldii of Meiji Park, near the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery.
What is the history of Yotsuya?
Yotsuya was a ward of the old Tokyo City in its own right, and in 1947 the reorganisation that cut 35 wards down to 23 folded it together with Ushigome and Yodobashi into Shinjuku. The name outlived the ward. Yodobashi came in as a suburban ward of Tokyo-fu, Ushigome from Tokyo City itself.
The Shinjuku Historical Museum sets out that merger, and the Fire Museum records a service whose own history runs through the same streets.
Where is Yotsuya?
Yotsuya runs across the inner blocks of Shinjuku, its streets reaching from the Ichigaya Letterpress Factory to the greenery around Meiji Park.
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Updated September 2026