Ito Toyo and Kuma Kengo
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CODAN, UR's rental housing, has 1,712 units in total, with Blocks 1 to 3 designed by Yamamoto Riken, Ito Toyo, and Kuma Kengo respectively. An S-shaped boulevard runs through CODAN's six blocks, and the buildings along the way were deliberately kept low, with shops built in.
CODAN is mainly made up of 14-story slab-style buildings. The site it stands on, Shinonome Canal Court, used to be a Mitsubishi Steel factory, and AEON Shinonome is also inside it.
Shinonome Waterside Park sits by the Tatsumi Canal, and a pedestrian bridge crosses the canal to the west exit of Tatsumi Station on the opposite bank, outside this neighborhood. South of National Route 357 is the Shinonome Tekko Danchi, used for industrial land.
In 2020, about one in five people in this neighborhood was under 15, and nearly four in ten households had three or more people, both higher than Koto City overall. Four in ten households were neither owner-occupied nor privately rented, but rather UR housing, public housing, dormitories and the like, nearly twice the rate for the whole City.
Judging from our street photos, buildings rank 8th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the best showing for this neighborhood; cleanliness ranks 20th, and greenery ranks 25th.
If you're taking the Yurakucho Line, some spots are actually closer on foot to Toyosu or Tatsumi than to Shinonome Station. In front of Shinonome Station there are Toei buses to Monzen-Nakacho and Kinshicho; for international travel, the bus stop in front of the AEON Shinonome store has buses to Narita Airport.
In 2020, about 212 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood, and nearly nine in ten households were in buildings of 11 stories or more, compared to less than half for Koto City.
Daily shopping ranks 295th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, healthcare ranks 288th, and public transit ranks only 234th. Shinonome Station is a station on the Rinkai Line, with 7,386 boardings per day in fiscal 2024, the lowest of the line's 8 stations.
The land beneath Shinonome was reclaimed using rubble from the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake. It wasn't until 1938 that this reclaimed land was named Shinonome, meaning the long clouds trailing across the sky at daybreak.
Shinonome Station, which opened in 1996, wasn't originally planned; it was built because Koto City petitioned for it. Most of the Rinkai Line runs underground, but this station is elevated; its platform sits on a freight line viaduct that was almost finished back in the Japan National Railways era.
CODAN, built on the former factory site, was completed in stages from 2003 to 2005. After 2005, super-tall residential towers went up one after another in the surrounding area, and the population surged along with them.
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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