Between Ueno and Asakusa, with a morning glory market in July and Kappabashi kitchen town just to the east
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Iriya is a residential area between Ueno and Asakusa, with its eastern edge bordering the northern end of Kappabashi Dogu Street. For three days in early July, Iriya Kishimojin and Kototoi-dori set up stalls for 30 morning glory vendors and 96 festival stalls. About 120,000 pots of morning glories line the grounds and sidewalks.
Kishimojin is about two hundred meters from Iriya Station on the Hibiya Line. There's a supermarket in front of the station, and since the 2000s, apartments have also increased, centered around the area in front of the station.
Nishi-Asakusa, across the street from Kappabashi Dogu Street, is already outside the neighborhood. This street runs about 800 meters, with over 170 shops selling kitchen supplies; customers are mostly chefs who run restaurants, but ordinary people can also buy individual items.
Daily shopping ranks 10th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking in this neighborhood; overall convenience of living ranks 25th.
Ono Terusaki Shrine in Shitaya 2-chome has a Fuji-zuka mound built in 1828 called Shitaya Sakamoto Fuji. It's normally closed, open to climb only on June 30 and July 1 each year, just a few days before the Asagao-ichi morning glory fair.
In 2020, about 345 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 342nd out of 395 neighborhoods, the weakest ranking in this neighborhood.
The stretch of the Hibiya Line from Minowa to Iriya had a peak congestion rate of 163% in fiscal year 2025, the highest of any section on the Tokyo Metro.
During the three days of the Asagao-ichi morning glory fair, about 300,000 people flood into the area around Kishimojin and Kototoi-dori each year.
Iriya was originally the bottom of Senzoku Pond, reclaimed and cultivated in the Sengoku period, and later became known for a type of pottery called Iriya pottery. When Iriya Station was built in 1959, a molar from an Ice Age Naumann's elephant was dug up nearby.
From the late Edo period through the Meiji era, morning glories were grown all over this area, and flower farmers would display them at Shingen-ji (also known as Iriya Kishimojin) for people to see — this is how the Asagao-ichi morning glory fair began. The last flower farmer closed shop in 1913, and the fair stopped for over thirty years, not reviving until 1948 with help from the local community and Taito City.
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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