Step out of the station onto Amazake Yokocho, the old shopping street theatergoers walk to reach Meijiza
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Come up from the exit of Ningyocho Station and you're right at the entrance to the Amazake Yokocho alley. Shops and restaurants line both sides of the alley all the way to the end, about 400 meters on, where you'll find the Meijiza theater in Hamacho, outside this neighborhood. The tsuzura (woven bamboo storage boxes covered in paper and lacquered) shop on the corner opened in 1861, and by 2018 it was the only one left in Tokyo.
Ningyocho-dori is lined with restaurants, shops, and office buildings, and more and more people have been settling in among them over the years. The population of Nihombashi Ningyocho grew from 2,230 in 1995 to 4,995 in 2020. Six out of ten households in this neighborhood are single-person households, and there are more people in their thirties and forties here than in Chuo City as a whole.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 7th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo—shops line both the alley and the main street, so you don't have to go far to buy anything. Overall convenience of daily life also ranks 8th.
Ningyocho Station serves the Hibiya Line and the Asakusa Line, and Suitengumae Station, 300 meters away, serves the Hanzomon Line; since 2018 the two stations have been connected for transfers. Suitengumae Station also connects directly to the Tokyo City Air Terminal, with airport buses to Haneda and Narita.
Suitengu Shrine is known for safe childbirth and conceiving children, and holds an ennichi (festival day) on the 5th of every month. Every August, Ningyocho also holds the Setomono-ichi pottery fair.
In 2020, about 220 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood. Greenery ranks 146th, the lowest-ranked category for this neighborhood, though it's still in the top half of 395 neighborhoods.
Before the Great Meireki Fire of 1657, the Yoshiwara pleasure quarter stood in this area; after the quarter moved to Asakusa, this place came to be called Moto-Yoshiwara. During the Edo period, this area also had kabuki theaters and ningyo shibai (puppet theater), and the common explanation is that so many puppeteers lived here that it came to be called Ningyocho, meaning "doll town".
In the early Meiji era, there was an amazake shop called Owariya near the entrance, and that's where the name Amazake Yokocho comes from. After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, this area was rebuilt, giving it the street layout it has today.
The area along Ningyocho-dori originally belonged to several different towns, including Matsushima-cho and Sumiyoshi-cho, and it wasn't until 1933 that it was all unified under the name Ningyocho. In 1951, the shopping street along Ningyocho-dori built Tokyo's first arcade, which stayed in use until it was torn down in 1984.
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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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