Wholesale street for dolls and fireworks, now joined by bead and leather craft suppliers
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Around Asakusabashi Station and along Edo-dori, wholesale shops for dolls, toys, and fireworks still stand side by side. In recent years, shops selling materials for beads, accessories, and leather goods have joined them, with old craftsmen and new creators coexisting here. The Asakusabashi area has 13 neighborhood associations (including Kuramae 1-chome, which lies outside the neighborhood), and throughout the year they hold festivals, children's events, mochi-pounding events, and disaster-prevention drills.
In 2020, more than six out of ten households in this neighborhood were single-person households, and people aged 20 to 39 made up nearly 40% of residents—both figures higher than Taito City as a whole. More than half of the households here rent their homes.
At the mouth where the Kanda River flows into the Sumida River, the first bridge is Yanagibashi. From the Edo period until the late 20th century, Yanagibashi was a hanamachi geisha district, and many yakatabune (traditional roofed pleasure boat) boathouse inns left over from that era still remain today.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 5th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for convenience of daily life it ranks 11th—the two highest-ranking categories for this neighborhood. On Torigoe Hondori in Torigoe 1-chome there is a shopping street about 230 meters long, nicknamed Okazu Yokocho. That area escaped the Great Tokyo Air Raids and still retains streetscapes from the early Showa period.
Asakusabashi Station is served by the JR Sobu Line and the Toei Asakusa Line; heading toward Tokyo on the Sobu Line, it is 1.1 kilometers to Akihabara. The west exit of Asakusabashi Station is in Higashi-Kanda 3-chome, Chiyoda City, a chome sandwiched between the Kanda River and the Sobu Line. Every May the neighborhood association federation holds the Kohaku Tochinoki Matsuri (a red-and-white horse chestnut festival), and every August the Ryuhoku Mai dance, both events meant to bring together people living in this area.
In 2020, this neighborhood had a population density of about 235 people per hectare. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 387th, the weakest category for this neighborhood; building condition ranks 316th, and cleanliness ranks 336th, both also toward the lower end. There is no train station within Torigoe itself—Kuramae Station lies to the east, Shin-Okachimachi Station to the north, and only to the south is Asakusabashi Station.
According to tradition, Torigoe Shrine began in 651 when local villagers enshrined Shiratori Myojin. At its annual grand festival every June, parishioners carry the Sengan Mikoshi in procession through their respective neighborhoods, and in the evening the shrine is hung with lanterns for the return procession, making it famous as a night festival.
In the Edo period, Kayacho (around present-day Asakusabashi) was a famous street for doll shops, and competition among the doll shops before festivals was so fierce that it was written into senryu (satirical short poems). The Illustrated Guide to Famous Places in Edo also depicted the hina doll market here. Yanagibashi was granted permission to build a bridge in 1697, and the current bridge was completed in 1929, after the Great Kanto Earthquake.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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