Azabu is full of upmarket homes; downhill, Azabu-Juban's shitamachi shopping street of over three hundred shops
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The Azabu area has many upscale residences, but Azabu-Juban itself sits in low-lying land along the Furukawa river, where mixed-use buildings, independent shops, and homes are all jumbled together. The shopping street has over 300 stores, and Azabu-Juban 2-chome also has a Seijo Ishii and the French organic supermarket Bio c' Bon.
Long-established taiyaki shops and hand-grilled senbei shops sit on the same street as restaurants from all sorts of countries, because many foreigners live nearby.
For everyday shopping, Azabu-Juban ranks 33rd among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. Both the shopping street and the supermarkets in 2-chome are within walking distance. Overall convenience for daily life ranks 53rd.
Azabu-Juban Station is served by the Namboku Line and the Oedo Line. On the Namboku Line, the neighboring stations are Shirokane-Takanawa and Roppongi-itchome; on the Oedo Line, the neighboring stations are Akabanebashi and Roppongi.
The two lines are connected by a passage inside the station, but their ticket gates are separate, so to transfer you have to exit the station first. The Oedo Line platform is on B6.
About 228 people live per hectare within the neighborhood. Based on our street photos, sidewalks here rank 135th among 395 neighborhoods.
Walking toward Roppongi, there are elevation changes—being close on the map doesn't mean the whole way is flat. During the Noryo Matsuri in the last week of August each year, restaurants set up stalls along the shopping street, and crowds concentrate there during those days.
In the Edo period, the residence of the Sendai domain occupied the area from today's Korean Embassy to Ninohashi. The low-lying side was too damp, so the domain kept only the high ground and returned the lowland to the shogunate. Only after the river was improved did the lowland gradually develop, and by the Meiji era it had grown into a bustling district on par with Kagurazaka.
In 1956, the shopping street opposed having the Hibiya Line pass through, so the station was built at Roppongi instead. After the Toden streetcars were discontinued, the nearest station was more than 1 kilometer away and separated by a slope, and the area came to be called an "island on land".
It wasn't until 2000 that the Namboku Line and the Oedo Line opened here one after another. Azabu-Juban's population grew from 3,817 in 1995 to 5,819 in 2020.
In Mita 1-chome, within the neighborhood, redevelopment housing with about 1,340 units is being built along the west side bordering the Furukawa river, scheduled for completion in February 2029. The southern block will include shops and a nursery.
The Namboku Line is being extended from Shirokane-Takanawa toward Shinagawa; the new section lies outside the neighborhood, with opening targeted for the mid-2030s. This extension will not give Azabu-Juban a new station.
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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