Shibamata, Japan

I went to Shibamata Taishakuten temple with my family. The temple is famous for the serial movie "Otoko wa Tsuraiyo" or "It's tough being a man."
The main character, Tora-san lives near the Taishakuten temple in the movies.

Most of the movies have the same basic plot.
A traveling salesman Tora-san arrives in some remote town planning to sell his wares to the locals. He meets a local woman and falls in love with her. However, he usually ends up inadvertently helping bring her together with another man. He ends up being heartbroken at the end of the movie.

I like the movies and watched them many times, but had never been Taishakuten temple before. We visited Tora-san museum, sweets shop Toraya and Taishakuten temple.
Its a really wonderful town.
Tora-san fans should visit the town.

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• Shibamata
• Torasan
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• Tsuraiyo
• Taishakuten
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• 寅さん
• 葛飾
• 柴又
• 帝釈天

[ShinichiHIRANO]

The temple is in Katsushika. Katsushika is at the east end of Tokyo.　It takes about 30 minutes from Tokyo Station to Shibamata by train.

Thanks for watching.

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[ervicsangel]

i went here :D I like the tora-san museum :D

[SterbendDSBM]

superb ... Ray my friend , you have a great time with your family , just wonderful :) ...i'd like to be there for one day too :D

[NichiBeiTrader]

Looks like it was another great day with the family!

[AtelierOrgan]

素敵なビデオを、また私の演奏を使ってくださり、ありがとうござ­います！心の和む風景ですねぇ♪

[theuglyninja]

beautiful place ray love the vid could you send me some magical dried fish powder plz hehe also could you recomend some good japanese dramas to watch i love all the dramas and flims with abe hiroshi , many thanks

[y00kid00ki1]

I went to Japan this past April and on of the places I wanted to visit was Shibamata because I am a big fan of the Tora-san movie series. The Tora-san museum was great! It's incredible that there were 48 Tora-san movies produced over a 26 year period with Atsumi Kiyoshi playing the main character in each one. Thanks for uploading this great video!

[kansaiPJ]

Where is the temple?