Kita City's largest arcade shopping street, with so many deli and side-dish shops that some call it "Okazu Ginza"
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Jujo Ginza extends 375 meters north from the plaza in front of Jujo Station, covered overhead by an arcade, with about 200 shops—the largest shopping street in Kita City. Among the roughly 200 shops, delicatessen and side-dish shops are especially common, so some people call it "Okazu Ginza," the side-dish Ginza.
Jujo was relatively lightly damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake and in the Pacific War, so its winding narrow lanes have survived, lined closely on both sides with houses.
Even though there are many shopping streets here, for everyday shopping Jujo ranks 175th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack—still the best ranking this neighborhood has in any category.
Jujo Station is served only by the Saikyo Line, with no other line to transfer to; in fiscal 2024 an average of about 34,000 people boarded there each day, the most of any Saikyo Line station with no transfer option. A newly completed building in front of Jujo Station opened in 2024—a 39-story residential-commercial building with about 580 units, with shops on the lower floors.
Every year on June 30 and July 1, Jujo Fuji Shrine in Naka-Jujo holds its big festival, with stalls lining the way all the way from Nikko Onari-michi to Jujo Ginza.
The lanes are narrow and the houses are packed close together—in 2020 about 192 people lived per hectare. Looking at our street photos, sidewalks here rank 354th out of 395 neighborhoods, and the overall streetscape environment ranks only 369th.
There are 6 railroad crossings around Jujo Station, and all of them remain at grade level until the elevation project is finished. Toward the Higashi-Jujo side, the land clearly drops, and you have to climb steep slopes like Umazaka and Jizozaka; Higashi-Jujo itself lies outside this neighborhood.
The name "Jujo" first appears in a document from 1448; one theory traces it to the Jujo Pass in Kishu, another to the ancient jori land-division system. In the latter half of the Meiji 30s, shops began appearing around Jujo Ginza.
The present-day Jujo Station opened in 1910, then part of the Yamanote Line, handling only passenger traffic. Jujo Ginza formed a merchants' association in 1938, and the arcade was added between 1977 and 1979.
About 1.5 kilometers of the Saikyo Line near Jujo Station is planned to be elevated; once complete, this will eliminate the 6 railroad crossings, with the project period running through March 2031. As of March 2025, land acquisition was still underway and elevation construction had not yet begun.
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