Upscale residential area on the former site of grand daimyo estates, deep in greenery, with a red-brick shopping street down the slope
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Ebisu-dori runs east-west through this neighborhood. The large plots left over from Edo-period daimyo residences gave the plateau mansions belonging to business elites, with part of it known as a high-end residential area. The low-lying area near the Furukawa River to the north has small factories and shopping streets, while the plateau to the south has schools and apartments, making it a quiet residential area.
The Shirokane Shoten-kai, in the low-lying area, is in Shirokane 3-chome, spreading south from the Shinohashi intersection on Meiji-dori. The surface of the shopping street is paved with red brick.
Climbing south from the shopping street up onto the plateau, the grounds of Sacred Heart School and the Kitasato Institute retain large areas of greenery. This green stretch continues all the way to the Institute for Nature Study in Shirokanedai (outside this neighborhood), forming one of the greenest belts among Tokyo's 23 wards.
Shirokane-Takanawa Station is registered in neighboring Takanawa 1-chome, with the station building sitting right on the eastern border of the neighborhood. On the Namboku Line and the Mita Line, trains heading in the same direction stop on opposite sides of the same platform. To transfer between the two lines going in the same direction, you just walk to the other side of the platform.
Based on our street photos, this neighborhood ranks 94th out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods for buildings.
For everyday convenience, this neighborhood ranks 191st out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, and 216th for daily shopping.
The odd-numbered chome (1, 3, 5) are mostly zoned as quasi-industrial areas, while the even-numbered chome (2, 4, 6) are mostly mid- to high-rise residential areas, with housing and small factories mixed together within the same neighborhood.
According to legend, the area is named after the "Shirokane Choja", a wealthy figure who developed the land and was said to own large quantities of silver. Before the end of the Meiji era, Shirokane was still rural countryside on the outskirts of the city; after that, housing, shops, and factories quickly multiplied.
Before the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, the Shuto Expressway Route 2 was built above the Furukawa River. The shopping association in the Shinohashi area was renamed the Shirokane Shoten-kai starting in 2005.
Shirokane-Takanawa Station opened in 2000, and Shirokane Aer City opened next to the station in 2005. Shirokane's population grew from just over 12,000 in 1995 to nearly 20,000 in 2025.
Shirokane-Takanawa Station will become a branching point: the Namboku Line will split off here into a new line of roughly 2.5 kilometers heading to Shinagawa. Construction began in November 2024, and Tokyo Metro's goal is to open the line by the mid-2030s.
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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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