Benkei Fishing Club – Akasaka, Tokyo
Surrounded by Otani Hotel and office buildings, right by the raised motorway, Benkei Fishing Club stands out as the most metropolitan fishing venue of Tokyo. Club stocks large mouth bass and rainbow trouts in Benkei Moat which was formerly a part of second circular moat to Castle Edo, today’s Imperial Palace. This moat originally opened as recreational boating pond right after the WWII, had been a free fishery for years, and turned into paid-fishery for about past 10 years.
It makes you feel quite strange to cast fly line in the middle of streets, but woods surrounding the moat will take your mind off streets into the game of fishing in a matter of seconds. Well… you still make a good photogenic character from the perspective of tourists visiting Tokyo looking for something to shoot at. So make sure you dress nicely:)
Species
Large mouth bass, bluegill, snakehead, and carp.
Information
http://www.maidokun.com/benkei/
| Open Season | All season |
| Open Hour | 9:00 – 18:00 Weekends and holidays May- Sep: 6:00 -18:00 |
| Fishing Permit | Lure/Fly Fishing 1,050 JPY/hour 2,500 JPY/day Rental spining tackle is 630 JPYBait Fishing 420JPY / half an hour 2,500 JPY/day Rental rod 100JPY, bait 100JPY |
| Rental Boat | Boat fee included in above |
| Address & Phone Number | 4-26 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku Tokyo03-3238-0012 |
| Regulation | – Casting from bank only allowed on the floating platform – Large mouth bass must be released (it is illegal to relocate this speci by government regulation to preserve natural habitat) |
Map
Access by Train
1. Tokyo Metro Ginza-Line or Marunouchi-Line to Akasaka Mitsuke station.
2. Tokyo Metro Hanzomon-Line or Yurakucho-Line to Nagatacho station.