Home of "Kochikame", with bronze statues of Ryotsu Kankichi by the station and on the shopping street
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Akimoto Osamu, the creator of Kochikame, is from Kameari, and the area around the station occasionally appears in the manga. In February 2006, a bronze statue of the protagonist Ryotsu Kankichi was erected at the station's north exit, and another was added at the south exit that November. In a pocket park along the Kameari Ginza shopping street, there's also a statue of Ryotsu as a boy.
By 2016, there were already 15 character statues of various sizes scattered around the station.
The shopping streets on both the north and south sides of the station still carry a strong flavor of shitamachi (the old working-class downtown). In March 2025, a Kochikame memorial museum opened in Kameari 3-chome within this neighborhood, with the ground floor set aside as a community space.
Based on our street photos, buildings rank 60th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking in this neighborhood; sidewalks rank 92nd, also near the top.
Healthcare ranks 225th, with Tobu Chiiki Hospital and Kameari Hospital located in the neighborhood. Daily shopping ranks 271st; Kameari 3-chome has the Ario Kameari shopping mall, as well as shopping streets like Lirio and Kameari Ginza.
Trains at this station run through directly onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line. To reach the Yamanote Line, many people transfer at Nishi-Nippori; to reach Ueno, you first need to go to Kita-Senju and transfer to a Rapid train.
Public transit ranks only 339th, the weakest score in this neighborhood. Rapid trains on the Joban Line don't stop at Kameari.
Kameari sits on the west bank of the Nakagawa River; it used to be wetland and the terrain is low-lying. In 2020, about 159 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood.
The area's name was first written as Kamenashi in documents dating back to 1398. During the early Edo period, when the Shoho Kuni Ezu (provincial maps) were being compiled, the character for "without" (nashi) was considered inauspicious, so it was changed to Kameari.
The station opened in 1897, originally planned to be built on the opposite side of the Nakagawa River, in the Niijuku area. People in Niijuku worried they'd lose toll-bridge customers, so they argued for it to be built in Kameari instead, and local landowners in Kameari donated the land.
Kameari used to have factories such as Hitachi and Nippon Shigyo, but they have all since left. In March 2006, Ario Kameari opened on the former site of a Nippon Itagami factory; that same year, the first statue of Ryotsu was set up at the north exit.
Heading from Kameari toward Ayase, there's a new facility under the elevated tracks spanning about 800 meters, which was still being developed as of May 2025. Among its features is the SKAC arts and culture center, established in August 2023 and located in Nishi-Kameari 3-chome within this neighborhood.
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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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