Tokyo's famous cherry-blossom pond, fireflies in summer, a two-day festival by the pond in September
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Coming out of Senzokuike Station, across Nakahara Kaido you'll find a whole pond fed by natural springs. About 220 cherry trees line the pond; in May you can listen to flute music on Ikezuki Bridge, and in late July you can see fireflies at the aquatic plant garden.
On weekends in early September, Senzoku Hachiman Shrine on the west bank of the pond holds its grand festival, and the normally quiet pond turns lively for two days. By November, more than 60 species of deciduous trees around the pond change color together.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 25th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the best-ranked item in this neighborhood. Cleanliness ranks 87th as well.
Everyday shopping is on the other side of the pond: duck under the elevated Ikegami Line tracks and you'll find the Family Road Senzokuike shopping street, with its main stretch inside the neighborhood.
The Ikegami Line runs Local service only, always with 3-car trains, and the fastest ride from Gotanda to Kamata takes 22 minutes. Ookayama Station on the Meguro Line and Oimachi Line is outside the neighborhood, about a 10-minute walk from the pond.
Convenience ranks 215th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, landing in the lower-middle range, and healthcare ranks 213th as well. From our street photos, architecture ranks 239th, the weakest item in this neighborhood.
Inside the neighborhood, Higashi-Yukigaya 1-chome has a Chuo Shinkansen emergency exit shaft under construction, 40 meters in diameter and about 90 meters deep. Ota City's project page lists the construction period as running until January 30, 2026, but that page hasn't been updated since May 2025, so no extension or completion has yet been announced.
According to legend, in 1180 Minamoto no Yoritomo camped by the pond on his way to Kamakura and caught a wild horse named Ikezuki. Later there was also a legend that Nichiren washed his feet by the pond; the area, originally written with characters meaning "a thousand bundles" (Senzoku), came to also be written with characters meaning "washing feet" (Senzoku) from then on.
Katsu Kaishu revisited this pond in his later years, and starting in 1892 built a villa called Senzokuken by the pond; after he died in 1899 he was buried on the pond's bank. The graves of him and his wife are now designated cultural properties of Ota City.
In the Taisho era, Senzokuken was handed over to the Seimeikai as a lecture hall; in 1928 a lecture hall cum library called Seimei Bunko was built next door. Senzokuken later burned down, and its former site is now Omori Dairoku Junior High School, outside the neighborhood; Seimei Bunko survived and opened in 2019 as the Katsu Kaishu Memorial Museum.
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