From Kiyosumi Garden to the Museum, then to a Chocolate Factory

During the Great Kanto Earthquake, it served as a refuge for people fleeing the disaster. Both the Japanese-style house and the Western-style house of the Iwasaki family burned down, and only the Ryotei pavilion remained.

The temple was originally on Reiganjima island; it burned in the Great Fire of Meireki, and nearly 10,000 refugees are said to have died on its grounds. The following year, it was relocated here as part of the shogunate's fire-prevention plan.

Founded in 1611 by Achanotsubone, a concubine of Ieyasu. Under the protection of the shogunate it grew into a great temple with many sub-temples, and it holds the graves of Achanotsubone and Shoji Jin'emon, who founded Yoshiwara.

This temple was founded in 1611 as a sub-temple of Unkō-in. It originally consisted of three sub-temples, but through repeated mergers during the Edo period, it became Ryūkō-in, a name taken from 'Hōryū-in' and 'Seikō-in'.