Togoshi Ginza shotengai still sells fish and vegetables, weekend crowds strolling and eating croquettes
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Coming out of the ticket gates at Togoshi Ginza Station on the Ikegami Line, the Togoshi Ginza shopping street is right in front of you.
This street is mainly for everyday shopping—plenty of shops selling fish, meat, and produce are still around, so you can pick up groceries on your way home from work. On weekends, lots of visitors come to eat as they walk, with about 20 shops each making their own style of korokke.
The whole street runs about 1.3 kilometers along the valley floor from east to west, with slopes like Shimizuzaka and Hachimanzaka rising on either side. To the south, Togoshi 2-, 4-, 5-, and 6-chome form square blocks bounded by lanes 4 to 6 meters wide.
These lanes make it easy to pop out for groceries—for everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 60th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. For healthcare, it ranks 86th.
At Togoshi Station on the Toei Asakusa Line, it's the same story—step out of the ticket gates and the shopping street is right there. There's also Togoshikoen Station on the Oimachi Line.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 277 people per hectare.
The chome south of the shopping street are designated as a fire-prevention special zone; of 2,364 buildings, 1,379 are aging structures. There are few roads 6 meters or wider, and there are also dead-end lanes. The City office subsidizes rebuilding, aiming to raise the non-flammable area ratio from 58% at the end of fiscal 2024 to 70% by fiscal 2030.
For greenery, it ranks 348th; there's little large-scale green space within the neighborhood, and Togoshi Park lies outside the neighborhood boundary.
One theory holds that the place name Togoshi comes from a village described as "crossing over Edo". The shopping street on the valley floor used to have poor drainage, and the road was often muddy.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, shop owners pulled handcarts to Ginza 6-chome and brought back bricks damaged in the quake to pave the road. When the shopping association was formed, it took the name Togoshi Ginza.
In 1927, the Ikegami Electric Railway opened and set up Togoshi Ginza Station, drawing together the shops that had been scattered around into a cluster near the station. The flooding problem wasn't solved until the culverting drainage works around 1960.
On the Oimachi Line, a roughly 895-meter stretch from Toyomachi 2-chome, outside the neighborhood, to Togoshi 6-chome is being elevated; approval from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism was obtained in February 2026. Six level crossings in this section that are almost never open will disappear, with the project running through fiscal 2035.
Within the special zone, a roughly 0.2-hectare block in Togoshi 6-chome is to be jointly redeveloped, and this was designated as an urban plan in January 2025.
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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