Where the Sumida River bends, high-rises fill the land, with old streets still lingering alongside
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Chome 4, east of Minami-Senju Station, was formerly called Shioiri, and sits on the land where the Sumida River bends sharply eastward. Along Hojo No. 322 outside the east exit is LaLa Terrace Minami-Senju, which opened as part of the redevelopment. Outside chome 4, chomes 2, 3, 5, and 7 are mostly old neighborhoods outside the redevelopment area.
In chome 4, almost every household lives in a building of 11 floors or more, and over a quarter of households have children under 18. The whole Minami-Senju area is known for many shops serving cheap simmered offal, and there's also Minami-Senju style monjayaki.
The JR Joban Line, the Hibiya Line, and the Tsukuba Express all stop at Minami-Senju Station, and public transit ranks 129th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. From our street photos, sidewalks rank 39th, which is one of the stronger scores for this neighborhood.
The redevelopment also created Shioiri Park, a roughly 13-hectare disaster-prevention park along the Sumida River, in chome 8.
Healthcare ranks 211th among 395 neighborhoods, a bit below the middle. In Tokyo's 2022 earthquake area risk survey, the redeveloped chome 4 scored the lowest level, 1, while the old neighborhood of chome 5 scored the highest level, 5.
Chome 5 is within Tokyo's Nonflammable Zone special district, but there are few roads 6 meters or wider that fire trucks can easily enter.
After the Meiji era, Shioiri became a place where river shipping connected to rail freight, and factories for Dai Nippon Spinning and Kanegafuchi Spinning were built there. Sumidagawa Station, which opened in 1896, was built to receive coal from the Joban Line, and a waterway was even drawn in from the Sumida River into the station.
The redevelopment starting in 1987 turned Shioiri into 20- to 30-story residential towers, and Tokyo planned about 4,500 units in this area alone. Sumidagawa Station didn't disappear along with the old neighborhood, and remains a container base for freight to Tohoku and Hokkaido to this day.
The Tsukuba Express now runs entirely 6-car trains, and ridership in the first half of fiscal year 2025 hit a record high since opening. The switch to 8-car trains isn't planned until the early 2030s.
On the old neighborhood side, a district plan restricting wall placement and minimum lot size is scheduled to expand to chome 5 in 2027. The goal for the whole special district is to raise the nonflammable area ratio to 70% by 2030.
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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