Chuo City's largest park faces the Sumida River, right beside the Meijiza theater
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Hamacho Park faces the Sumida River and is the largest park in Chuo City. The park has a Chuo City-run sports center, and its heated pool is open from 7am to 9:30pm.
Right by the park is the Meijiza theater. Performances usually have one or two intermissions of about 30 minutes each, and many audience members use the time to eat at the theater's dining hall.
The population of Nihombashi-Hamacho was 3,675 in 1995, rising to 11,778 in 2020. This is the highest population of any town in the Nihombashi area. In this neighborhood, 60% of households live in buildings of 11 stories or more, and single-person households make up a little over half.
Public transit ranks 14th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking of any category for this neighborhood. About 500 meters in a straight line from Hamacho Station is Higashi-Nihombashi Station on the Asakusa Line. About 580 meters away is Ningyocho Station, served by both the Hibiya Line and the Asakusa Line; both stations are outside the neighborhood.
Everyday shopping ranks 26th. This area used to have only independent shops, and stores only started increasing after the redevelopment of Nihombashi-Hamacho F Tower in the 2000s.
Judging from our street photos, buildings rank 14th, and cleanliness ranks 45th. The pool in the park costs 350 yen for Chuo City residents for a 2-hour adult session, and is free for those 65 and older and for elementary and junior high students living in Chuo City.
Hamacho Station itself is served only by the Toei Shinjuku Line, and has the lowest ridership of any station on the Shinjuku Line. To use other lines, you need to walk to Ningyocho or Higashi-Nihombashi, both outside the neighborhood, or to Suitengumae, about 700 meters away, which has the Hanzomon Line.
Healthcare ranks 109th out of 395 neighborhoods. While Nihombashi Junior High School is being rebuilt, a temporary school building has been set up in Hamacho Park, and part of the park is closed until fiscal year 2030.
In the Edo period, the land now occupied by Hamacho Park was the lower residence (a secondary mansion outside the castle) of the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family, the Hosokawa family of Kumamoto Domain, and others. This park was planned as part of the Imperial Capital Reconstruction Project after the Great Kanto Earthquake, and opened in 1929.
The Meijiza theater's predecessor, Kishoza, opened in Hisamatsucho in 1873, was renamed Meijiza in 1893, and moved to Hamacho in 1928. Nakasu was originally a sandbar in the Sumida River; it was filled in and then removed, and only became fully connected to Hamacho as land in 1971.
The new building for Nihombashi Junior High School has been delayed due to labor shortages in the construction industry, and is now scheduled to open in April 2030. The temporary school building in the park is planned to be used through fiscal year 2029.
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