Still called Fukagawa-Kiyosumi by old-timers, a shitamachi corner that's also Tokyo's coffee mecca
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Kiyosumi-Shirakawa still keeps the old shitamachi atmosphere, but new-style cafes keep opening one after another, making it one of Tokyo's top coffee battlegrounds. Local residents usually gather at Kiyosumi Gardens and the Fukagawa Library; the gardens are about a 3-minute walk from Exit A3 of the station.
Starting in 2000, two subway lines opened one after another, and transport quickly became convenient, with high-rise apartments following soon after. In 2015, Blue Bottle Coffee opened its first store outside the US in Hirano 1-chome, and the area later came to be called the "coffee mecca".
The old name is still in use too - this area is still often called "Fukagawa-Kiyosumi".
The gardens' large pond has three small islands, where you can see carp, turtles, and water birds. Based on our street photos, this neighborhood's streetscape ranks 17th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. Sidewalks rank 7th.
Inside the Fukagawa Edo Museum in Shirakawa 1-chome, there's also a branch office of Koto City Office, the Shirakawa branch office.
Taking the Hanzomon Line west through Suitengumae and Mitsukoshimae, the third stop is Otemachi, and it runs directly through to Shibuya on the Tokyu Denentoshi Line. Going east, it connects to the Tobu Line at Oshiage.
The station only has two subway lines, the Hanzomon Line and the Oedo Line - there's no JR, so to ride JR you need to transfer first. Healthcare ranks 204th out of 395 neighborhoods.
After Blue Bottle opened, the number of young weekend visitors clearly increased.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu entered Edo, Kiyosumi was still tidal flats, and it wasn't named Kiyosumi-cho until 1695. In 1878, Mitsubishi's Iwasaki Yataro bought about 30,000 tsubo of land across Kiyosumi-cho and Isezaki-cho, and the gardens were run by the Iwasaki family for three generations.
After the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, the Iwasaki family donated half the gardens to Tokyo City, and it opened as a park in 1932. That same year, Kiyosumi-cho merged with several neighboring towns and was renamed Fukagawa-Kiyosumi-cho.
Neighboring Shirakawa wasn't named until the early Showa era, taking its name from Matsudaira Sadanobu, who is buried at Reiganji Temple and once served as lord of the Shirakawa domain. Before the station opened in 2000, its provisional name was simply "Kiyosumi".
The next stop on the Hanzomon Line is Sumiyoshi, outside this neighborhood, and the Yurakucho Line is currently being extended there from Toyosu, with construction starting in November 2024. The target is to open sometime in the mid-2030s, at which point the direct trip from Sumiyoshi to Toyosu will take about 9 minutes, compared to about 20 minutes today with two transfers.
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