Denkikan

Originally a hall built in Asakusa's Rokku theater district to present spectacles featuring electricity ("denki" in Japanese), it was converted into a movie theater in October 1903 by Yoshizawa Shōten, the most successful of the film companies at the time.

Featuring benshi such as Saburo Somei,[1] it quickly became the symbol of the new phenomenon of the motion pictures and many cinemas around Japan were later created that borrowed the name "Denkikan.

The vacant site was used as flea market until 1987 when a commercial and residential complex was constructed.

A historically accurate model of the theater is currently on display at the Edo-Tokyo Museum in Tokyo.

It is also cited in Kaizo Hayashi's film To Sleep so as to Dream.