Kozukappara Execution Grounds

A 2-minute walk from JR Minami-Senju Station is the Otsukahara Execution Ground. The Otsukahara Execution Ground was the place where the most vicious criminals were executed in the Tokugawa era. A total of more than 200,000 people were executed here, and Yoshida Shoin affected the Meiji Restoration. He was also executed here, and the first modern autopsy in Japan, hosted by Sugita Genbai, was also performed here. The site of Otsukahara Execution Ground is located near Minamisenju Station in the northeastern part of Tokyo, inside Enmeiji Temple. There is a large statue of Jizo here, commonly known as the Beheading Jizo, which was built to pray for the blessing of the dead. There is a railway next to it.