Bakurocho / Higashi-Nihombashi — a wholesale street for sundries and textiles, opening its doors to the public twice a year
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Bakurocho and neighboring Yokoyamacho together are known as a wholesale district for sundries and textiles, with many clothing and general goods wholesalers lining Yokoyamacho-dori. Every year on the first Sunday of July and December, the Oedo Tonya Matsuri is held, when shops that normally sell only wholesale also open to the general public.
More and more people are living in this wholesale district too: in 1995 the two towns together had just over 400 residents, but by 2020 that had grown to over 3,000. In 2020, six out of ten households in this neighborhood were single-person households, and people aged 25 to 49 made up nearly 60 percent — both figures higher than for Chuo City as a whole. More than half of homes here are rented, and less than one in ten residents is 65 or older.
Higashi-Nihombashi is divided by Kiyosubashi-dori: the west side connects to the wholesale district, while the east side is a mix of shops and homes. The neighborhood also extends into Higashi-Kanda 1-chome in Chiyoda City, where a good number of textile-related companies are also clustered.
Among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, this one ranks 4th for public transit and 3rd for everyday convenience — the two highest-ranking categories for this neighborhood. JR Sobu Rapid Line's Bakurocho Station connects via a walkway to the Toei Shinjuku Line's Bakuro-Yokoyama Station and the Asakusa Line's Higashi-Nihombashi Station.
There's a dedicated transfer ticket gate between the JR and Shinjuku Line stations. Bakuro-Yokoyama Station had an average of about 112,000 daily boardings and alightings in fiscal 2024, ranking 3rd on the Shinjuku Line.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 256 residents per hectare. Based on our street photos, it ranks 338th for greenery, its weakest category, and 225th for cleanliness, somewhat below the middle.
It's said that Edo's earliest horse-riding ground opened here in 1551, where merchants who traded cattle and horses (bakuro) gathered, and the town was first called Bakurocho, written with different characters; it was only during the Shoho era that the characters were changed to the ones used for Bakurocho today. In the Edo period, this was also a town where travelers stayed, and records from 1851 show more than 100 inns here. Yagenbori Fudoin in Higashi-Nihombashi 2-chome is the Tokyo branch temple of Kawasaki Daishi, and on its grounds stands a stone monument marking the birthplace of Juntendo University.
JR Bakurocho Station opened in 1972, and was the deepest station on the national railway at the time. Its depth was originally recorded as 30.58 meters below sea level, later corrected to 27.14 meters below sea level. Transfers to the Asakusa Line were possible from opening, and in 1978 the Shinjuku Line's Bakuro-Yokoyama Station opened, also connecting in.
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