A street of cheap bars that people make a special trip for, with the area in front of the station now being redeveloped
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In front of Keisei-Tateishi Station, izakaya, small bars, and pubs line up one after another, and the area has always been known as a cheap drinking street. Even people who don't live or work nearby come specially for this atmosphere.
The alleys are so narrow that cars can barely pass through, and there's almost no parking, and with the buildings aging, the area in front of the station is being redeveloped together with the railway elevation project. Before construction began on the north exit side in September 2023, quite a few shops had already moved away or closed down.
The south exit has an old arcaded shopping street, Tateishi Nakamise, which was still open for business in September 2026. But it's also within the redevelopment area of the south exit west district.
The Katsushika City Office, tax office, and police station are all in Tateishi, making it the administrative center of the whole City. Healthcare ranks 193rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. The toy company Takara Tomy's head office is in Tateishi 7-chome, and the toy industry in this area started with a celluloid factory in 1914.
Tateishi was originally rice paddies reclaimed from wetlands, in a zero-elevation zone, and most of the town flooded during Typhoon Kathleen in 1947. Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 378th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood. Buildings also rank 335th.
The place name comes from Tateishi-sama in Tateishi 8-chome; this block of Boshu stone is believed to have been carried from Chiba during the Kofun period, later served as a marker along an ancient official road, and now only a few centimeters of it show above ground. Keisei built the station in 1912, and farmland rearrangement starting in 1922 left behind a grid of square blocks. In 1923 the station moved to its current location, and that same year, after the Great Kanto Earthquake, disaster victims flooded in, and the area quickly became a residential neighborhood.
After the war there was a black market in front of the station, and later an arcaded shopping street formed south of the station, which is today's Nakamise. The supermarket next to Nakamise opened in 1963 and closed on September 30, 2026, after 63 years.
Redevelopment of about 2.2 hectares on the north exit side began construction in 2025 and is scheduled to be completed in fiscal year 2029. There will be a 36-story residential building with 710 units, while the City office and other facilities will move into a 14-story business building.
Redevelopment of about 440 units in the south exit east district is scheduled to be completed in March 2031. The approximately 2.2-kilometer stretch of the Keisei Oshiage Line between Yotsugi and Aoto is being elevated, with the project running until March 2031; once complete, it will eliminate 11 railway crossings.
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