Between old houses and a shopping street, a wholesale fruit and veg market has run since 1939
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There's no train station within Kita-Shinjuku itself, but chome 4 is home to a Tokyo Metropolitan wholesale fruit and vegetable market, Yodobashi Market, which opened in 1939. On average 700 to 1,000 tonnes of produce pass through here every day, on a site of only about 2.4 hectares.
This area was originally a mix of old houses packed together with small and medium-sized shopping streets. In 2020 this neighborhood had a population of about 32,000.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 27th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking of the bunch. Greenery ranks 44th, also near the top; Kita-Shinjuku Park was built on the former site of the Tokyo University of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, which stood there from 1928 to 1975.
Judging from our street photos, the buildings rank 75th, also near the top. Public transportation ranks 77th, also near the top, though getting to the train in the Kita-Shinjuku 3-chome area takes a bit of a walk first: it's about 8 minutes from Yoroi Shrine to JR Okubo Station, and about 9 minutes to Higashi-Nakano Station.
Healthcare ranks 96th, the weakest ranking of the bunch.
Chome 2 has a lot of daytime workers — in 2021 there were 6,174 people working there, and the 35-story Shinjuku Front Tower office building is located here. As of 2018, the market site was too small for the volume of trade passing through it, so the market grounds were often crowded, and this also affected the surrounding roads. In 2020 this neighborhood had a population density of about 256 people per hectare.
This area was originally Kashiwagi Village, which was incorporated into Yodobashi Ward of Tokyo City in 1932. In 1939 Yodobashi Market opened, merging together 13 private markets.
In 1971, a residential address reform turned Kashiwagi 2 to 4-chome and most of 5-chome into what is now Kita-Shinjuku 1 to 4-chome. From fiscal 1998 to 2015, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government carried out a redevelopment of about 4.7 hectares around 1 and 2-chome, building about 660 housing units. Shinjuku Front Tower, completed in 2011, was part of this.
Yodobashi Market is being expanded: construction of an automated multi-story cold storage warehouse is underway in 2025, and work on a new general administration building is scheduled to begin in fiscal 2026. The current administration building is scheduled to be demolished starting in fiscal 2029. Two briefing sessions for nearby residents were already held in 2024.
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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