Beneath the station is the Metro Museum, and among the apartments runs a walkway converted from an old river channel
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At the center of the platform's side wall at Kasai Station hangs a large sign for the Metro Museum. The museum sits beneath this elevated station, and it opened in 1986. Inside are actual retired Ginza Line train cars that once ran in service, plus operation simulators.
There are few detached houses in the area around the station; it's mostly mid- to high-rise apartment buildings, and the streets have mostly been through land readjustment. Going east from Nakakasai past Kan-nana brings you to Higashi-Kasai, and that side also has areas of low-rise housing.
A good walk is the Kasai Shinsui Four Seasons Path in Nakakasai, which originally followed the Nagashima River that thrived on water transport. In 1989 the Nagashima River was turned into a path with water, greenery, and sculptures, running 2,100 meters east-west through the Kasai area. Along the route are four children's plazas with play equipment.
From our street photos, building exteriors rank 103rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, near the top.
Daily shopping ranks 90th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranked of the three convenience-of-living sub-items.
Buses from in front of the station run to Kasai Rinkai Park Station and Tokyo Disneyland. For traveling abroad, there are also buses from in front of the station to Haneda and Narita airports.
Kasai Station is served by only one line, the Tozai Line, and public transit ranks 350th, the weakest item in this neighborhood. During the daytime, Rapid trains don't stop at Kasai, so people taking the Local have to wait at this station for the Rapid to pass first.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 243 people per hectare.
The Kasai area was originally a place of half-farming, half-fishing, with rows of lotus fields said to have lined the area and many nori seaweed fisheries. In 1629, the Shinkawa River was dug at the northern tip of Higashi-Kasai (north of this neighborhood), becoming a major artery of water transport in Edo. By the Meiji era, the villages of Ukita, Nagashima, Kuwakawa, and others merged to form Kasai Village, which is where the name "Kasai" comes from.
In 1969, the Tozai Line opened in full and Kasai Station began service, and housing development in Higashi-Kasai started from this point. Afterward, the population kept growing and more high-rise apartments were built, and this became a residential area for commuting to the city center. The address "Higashi-Kasai" didn't appear until the 1980 implementation of the residential address system.
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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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