Along both banks of the Kanda River, a neighbourhood where homes mix in with printing and bookbinding companies
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The station name Edogawabashi refers to the bridge next to the station that crosses the Kanda River. The north bank of the river is Suido and Sekiguchi in Bunkyo, while the opposite bank is the Suidocho area in Shinjuku. Suido on the north bank, and Suidocho, Kaitaicho, and Yamabukicho on the opposite bank, are all neighborhoods where homes, apartments, and printing and bookbinding companies are mixed together.
Suido 2-chome is entirely this kind of street where homes and industry coexist, as is the western side of 1-chome, densely lined with low- to mid-rise buildings. About a 2-minute walk from the station brings you to the Jizo-dori shopping street, with about 80 shops lined up along a cross-shaped street.
The name Jizo-dori comes from Kosodate Jizo, the Jizo that watches over children's growth, which according to legend drifted here when the Kanda River flooded. For daily shopping, this neighborhood ranks 23rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the top-ranked item for this neighborhood.
The Printing Museum on the Suido north bank was established by Toppan Printing, and visitors can experience letterpress printing there. The station is served by only the Yurakucho Line, and public transit ranks 121st, landing slightly ahead of the middle.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 275 residents per hectare, with the Suido area being a neighborhood where homes and businesses mix together. Narrow living lanes that cars can't enter are still around. From our street photos, cleanliness ranks 213th, the weakest item for this neighborhood; buildings rank 190th, the second weakest.
In the Edo period, residents were ordered by the shogunate to regularly clean the Kanda Josui waterway, and the town name Suido comes from this waterway. Kaitaicho, on the opposite bank, was originally a marsh; in 1654 it was allocated as replacement land to relocated residents, and was gradually filled in section by section to become residential land.
After the war, publishing, distribution, and printing companies gathered on both banks. By 1966, the town names on the Bunkyo side no longer included "Edogawa," as Edogawacho and Nishi-Edogawacho were merged into Suido. In 1970, this stretch of the river was also renamed from "Edogawa" to the Kanda River.
After the Heisei era began, printing plants and distribution lots were gradually redeveloped into apartments, offices, and data centers. The name "Edogawa" still remains today in the station, the bridge, and Shinjuku's Edogawa Elementary School.
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