GURU NANAK DARBAR TOKYO

Guru Nanak Darbar Tokyo began in the late 1990s, when a few Sikh families met for prayers in an Indian restaurant; in 2001 the sangat moved to Bunkyo ward, first renting rooms and later buying its own floor of an office building near Myogadani. There is no Nishan Sahib or dome outside, but inside the small darbar fills on Sunday mornings with Gurbani and the smell of langar, and the sangat is a warm mix of Punjabi, Indian and Japanese families.