An island ringed by canals with four residential towers, and a red-brick path that circles its shore
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In Shibaura 4-chome there's an island surrounded by canals on all four sides, with four tower residences on it collectively called Shibaura Island. A red-brick walking path about 1.3 km long circles the island, and the embankment is designed to give crabs a place to live, doubling as an outdoor classroom for nearby elementary schools.
In 2020 the whole neighborhood had about 32,000 people, with 17,000 living in 4-chome.
As the number of children has grown, schools have been built to match: in 2022, a new Shibahama Elementary School opened in Shibaura 1-chome. The island also has a children's nursery, a supermarket, and a clinic with pediatrics.
For everyday shopping, it ranks 103rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. Looking at our street photos, buildings rank 12th, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood; sidewalks also rank 20th. In Tokyo's 2022 earthquake risk assessment (building collapse and fire), Shibaura 1- through 4-chome all fall into risk level 1, the lowest of five levels.
Shibaura as a whole is mostly factories, offices, and warehouses. In 2020, 3-chome had only about 81 people per hectare, while 4-chome had about 391.
The neighborhood has two Yurikamome stations: Shibaura Futo in Kaigan 3-chome and Hinode in Kaigan 2-chome. Shibaura 1- through 4-chome themselves have no stations; the nearest are Tamachi, Mita, and Hinode. Public transit ranks 154th; healthcare ranks 260th, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood.
"Shibaura" originally referred to the seashore around Shiba. The Sumida River mouth improvement project starting in 1906 filled in this sea to create land, and Shibaura town was established in 1919.
In the latter half of the 1980s, many discos and live houses opened on the relatively cheap reclaimed land, and the area came to be called the "Waterfront". In 1999, 4-chome became Japan's first "high-rise residential promotion district". In 2007, Shibaura Island was built on the former sites of a Toei Bus depot and a sugar refinery.
BLUE FRONT SHIBAURA in Shibaura 1-chome is a redevelopment of the former Hamamatsucho building, and the whole project includes offices, a hotel, shops, and residences. TOWER S was completed in February 2025. TOWER N is scheduled to break ground in fiscal 2027 and be completed in fiscal 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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