A shopping street of about 150 shops at the heart of the old Nakasendo post town, where a century-old rice shop now sells onigiri
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In the Edo period, traveling the Nakasendo from Nihombashi, the first post town was Itabashi-shuku, and Nakajuku was its center. The street at the center of the post town is today's Itabashi Nakajuku Shopping Street, about 1 minute from Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station, with around 150 shops. On the street there's a rice ball shop converted from a rice shop that's about a hundred years old, which cooks Koshihikari rice in a hagama iron pot, and was registered as a tangible cultural property of Itabashi City in 2020.
The Shakujii River flows through the middle of Kaga, and the cherry blossoms along its banks are one of the Ten Views of Itabashi; there are also residential apartment buildings along the river.
Within the same neighborhood, life looks quite different. In 2020, nearly seventy percent of households in Itabashi 2-chome were single-person households, compared to about sixty percent in Nakajuku. In Kaga 1-chome, only about twenty percent of households were single-person, about eighty percent of homes were owner-occupied, and children under 15 made up about twenty percent, twice the rate for Itabashi City as a whole.
Based on our street photos, sidewalks rank 54th among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the best of the seven sub-scores. Greenery ranks 61st, close behind.
Higashi-Itabashi Park in Itabashi 3-chome has a ball field, lawns, and a children's zoo. A direct train on the Mita Line reaches Otemachi in under 20 minutes with no transfer, and an underground passage connects the station to Itabashi City Office.
Transit ranks 218th, the weakest sub-score in this neighborhood. Kaga itself has no station; it's a 7- to 11-minute walk to either Jujo Station or Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station.
Healthcare ranks 179th, in the middle of the pack. Teikyo University Hospital in the neighborhood is a large hospital; seeing a doctor without a referral letter incurs an extra fee, so it's not meant for everyday outpatient visits.
In 1602, the Nakasendo was developed, and Itabashi-shuku became the first post town out of Nihombashi. There was only one honjin, the lodging for daimyo, and it stood in Nakajuku. In 1861, Princess Kazu, who was to marry the shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, stayed at the Iida family's house in Nakajuku on her journey.
The name Kaga comes from the Kaga domain: the area around today's Kaga 1-chome was once the Maeda family's secondary residence (shimo-yashiki), and Kaga Park is a remnant of its garden's artificial hill. In 1876, the Meiji government built the first modern gunpowder factory here, which operated until 1945. After the war, research institutes and schools moved in, and the area only got the town name Kaga in 1965.
The remains of the gunpowder factory became a national historic site in 2017. Itabashi City is turning it into a historic site park, aiming for full opening in fiscal year 2029.
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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