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San'ya
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- Summary
- Simple-lodging establishments
- History
- Transportation
- "Sanya" written around Tokyo
- Notes
- References
- External links
- Further reading
is an area in the Taitō and Arakawa wards of Tokyo, located south of the Namidabashi intersection, around the Yoshino-dori. A neighborhood named "San'ya" existed until 1966, but the area was renamed and split between several neighborhoods.
It is a region with a distinct culture, an area of crowded, cheap rooming houses where day laborers and jōhatsu live.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “San'ya” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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