Akebonobashi Station and its shopping street, with the quiet hilltop homes of Ichigaya-Daimachi and Yakuojimachi above
Akebonobashi started out as a bridge: Gaien-higashi-dori crosses over Yasukuni-dori here, and the underground station sits right beside it in Sumiyoshi-cho. Whichever way you leave the station, you walk uphill; a resident of ten years describes the station as sitting at the bottom of a valley. To the north is the Akebonobashi-dori shopping street, once known as Fuji TV Shita-dori, with supermarkets, drugstores and clinics along it, and it rarely gets crowded. Step off the shopping street and you are in quiet residential blocks full of narrow lanes, stairs and slopes.
Shinjuku is two stops and about 3 minutes away on the Toei Shinjuku Line, and Tokyo Station about 20 minutes. Daily shopping ranks 26th of Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods, and public transport 34th. Kawadacho has the Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital. Tomihisa Sakura Park in Tomihisacho has a sandpit, play equipment and a gently sloping lawn, a good spot if you have small children.
With the station at the bottom of a valley, the way home is usually uphill, so be ready for that if you cycle. In our street photos, the street environment ranks 97th of 155. Greenery ranks 100th, the weakest score here, and there are not many street trees.
The Akebonobashi bridge opened in 1957; its name was chosen by public competition and expresses the postwar hope for recovery and growth. The name Kawadacho comes from Kawadakubo, an old place name in Ushigome Village. In 1959 Fuji Television began broadcasting from its new building in Kawadacho and stayed for 38 years, moving to Odaiba only in 1997. Akebonobashi Station opened in 1980, and until 1997 its station announcements called it "Fuji TV-mae". The old TV site was redeveloped as housing, with residents moving in from 2003, and in 2017 the complex was renamed Kawadacho Garden.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
65 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-02
Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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