Hatchobori, the name period-drama constables call themselves, and Shinkawa on the Sumida River, which joins the Fukagawa Festival
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In the Edo period, the official residences of yoriki and doshin (mid-to-low-ranking magistrate's officers) under the town magistrate were located here, which is why doshin in period dramas call themselves "Hatchobori". Crossing Takahashi Bridge from Hatchobori Station takes you to Shinkawa, an area surrounded by the Sumida River, the Nihombashi River, and the Kamejima River, also known as Reiganjima. Most of Shinkawa belongs to the ujiko parish area of Tomioka Hachimangu, and together with Fukagawa across the Sumida River, it takes part in the Fukagawa Festival, one of Edo's three great festivals.
Office buildings and apartments mix together in Shinkawa, making it a relatively quiet neighborhood, and the Sumida River embankment has been turned into the Chuo City-run Shinkawa Park. Crossing Reigan Bridge gets you to Kayabacho Station, outside the neighborhood.
In 2020, this neighborhood was home to over 17,000 people, with more than half living in Shinkawa 1-chome and 2-chome, across the Kamejima River from Hatchobori Station.
Architecture ranks 9th, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood. Convenience of daily life ranks 23rd, and daily shopping ranks 17th, both in the upper range.
Public transit ranks 27th among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods. Hatchobori Station has the Hibiya Line and the JR Keiyo Line; in fiscal year 2025, the Hibiya Line station handles about 100,000 passengers a day.
Teppozu Inari Shrine in this neighborhood is said to have been founded in 841, and its grounds have the only Fuji-zuka (Mt. Fuji mound) in Chuo City. Sakuragawa Park's Sakuragawa is another name for the Hatchobori waterway.
The area around the station is an office district, and it gets quiet at night. The transfer passage between the Hibiya Line and the Keiyo Line only has stairs. Judging from our street photos, greenery ranks 146th, the lowest-ranking category for this neighborhood.
The place name Hatchobori comes from a waterway dug during the Kan'ei era, eight cho long, about 872 meters. After the temples were relocated in 1635, the official residences of the yoriki and doshin were set up on the site.
Shinkawa, across the river, is also the name of a waterway, said to have been dug in 1660 by the wealthy merchant Kawamura Zuiken, and sake wholesalers gathered along its banks. From 1948, this waterway was filled in to dispose of wartime rubble, leaving only the place name behind.
The area around Minato 2-chome had its land forcibly bought up during the bubble economy, and by the early 2000s it had become a streetscape of old houses mixed with parking lots. The redevelopment building in the Minato 2-chome East district was completed in November 2017.
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