You can still walk the old Tokaido of Shinagawa-juku, lined with the liveliest shopping street in the area
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Today's Minami-Shinagawa is roughly the southern half of the Edo-period Shinagawa-juku post town. The old Tokaido still runs through here, and along the road you can see shops, temples, and other traces left behind by Shinagawa-juku. The Aomono-yokocho shopping street grew up along this stretch of the old Tokaido, and it's the busiest shopping street in the area.
The shopping street draws a lot of foot traffic, and there are plenty of supermarkets and restaurants around the station too. About a 4-minute walk from the station, Honsenji temple has, in front of its main gate, the first of the Edo Six Jizo statues, next to a large ginkgo tree designated a City natural monument.
Public transit ranks 67th, the top-ranked category in this neighborhood. Keikyu's Special Express and Express trains both stop at this station, and it also runs through directly onto the Toei Asakusa Line.
To the west, outside the neighborhood, JR Oimachi Station, and to the east, the Rinkai Line's Shinagawa Seaside Station, are both within usable distance.
The residential lanes behind the old Tokaido have a lot of character, but many of the streets are narrow. As of 2013, old houses were packed close together in some spots, making disaster preparedness an issue there.
The low-lying parts of Minami-Shinagawa sit at an elevation of only 2 to 5 meters; you have to climb James-zaka or Sendai-zaka to reach above 10 meters.
Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 338th, the lowest-ranked category in this neighborhood; cleanliness is also near the bottom, ranking 288th.
The neighborhood's name comes from the Edo-period aomono market, meaning vegetable market, and rows of large produce shops still lined the street as late as the early Showa era. The station opened in 1904, when its name was written with a different character for yokocho, though still read Aomono-yokocho, and it was elevated in stages between 1989 and 1991.
Honsenji temple is said to have been founded by Kukai, and it holds a bronze bell cast in 1657. The bell ended up overseas in the late Edo period and was returned in 1930 by the city of Geneva; Shinagawa City and Geneva later became sister cities in 1991.
Geneva Peace Street, running east from the station, takes its name from the French street sign sent over by the city of Geneva. James-zaka was originally a steep slope; the Englishman J.M. James paid out of his own pocket to ease the grade, which is how the slope got its name.
Back then, the coastline ran close to the old Tokaido, and it wasn't until the Showa 10s (from 1935) that the sea on the outer side was gradually reclaimed as land.
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