Tsukishima, a street of seventy-odd monjayaki shops, with old Tsukuda lanes still tucked beside the tower blocks
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Tsukishima's Nishinaka-dori shopping street alone has over 70 monjayaki and okonomiyaki restaurants on a single street. Right next to the high-rises, the old Tsukuda area still retains its old neighborhood blocks and narrow alleys.
More than half of the households in this neighborhood live in buildings 11 storys or taller. An early example is Okawabata River City 21 on the banks of the Sumida River, which started taking in residents in the late 1980s. It's regarded as the prototype for tower apartments built around valuing the view, with the building's base connecting to a gently sloping riverbank levee that lets you walk right down to the water's edge.
Going by our street photos, sidewalks here rank 11th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. Convenience of daily life ranks 45th.
Tsukishima Station is served by two subway lines; the Yurakucho Line connects to Shintomicho and Toyosu. There's no transfer ticket gate between the two lines, so switching between them means exiting the station first. River City 21 is farther from the station, about a 15-minute walk from Exit 6.
Every year from July 13 to 15, the Tsukuda-jima Bon Odori is danced near Tsukuda-kobashi — it's the only Bon Odori in central Tokyo that has continued unbroken since the Edo period.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 435 people per hectare. The back alleys of Tsukishima still have areas with dense wooden housing and very narrow lanes.
Tsukishima 3-chome has two redevelopment projects underway: the north district with about 1,341 units, and the south district with 744 units, still under construction — expect construction in the area until they're finished.
The northern half of Tsukuda was originally a separate island; in 1626 the hatamoto Ishikawa Hachizaemon was granted this small island, and from then on it was called Ishikawa-jima.
The shipyard on the island later became an IHI shipyard, which closed and was demolished in 1979. The site was redeveloped into River City 21 starting in 1986.
Tsukuda-jima to the south is said to have been built by fishermen from Tsukuda village in Settsu Province, completed in 1644. In 1967, Chuo City wanted to change the town's name on the grounds that the character for Tsukuda was not one of the toyo kanji (the officially designated kanji), but residents and writers opposed it, so the name was kept.
The south district plan is to demolish the old wooden nagaya row houses and build a 48-story residential tower, with a separate 2-story building for shops and childcare facilities alongside it. Completion is scheduled for June 2028.
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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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