Stalls under the viaduct grew into an electronics street, and Kanda Festival's mikoshi pass through here too
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In 1949, street vendors were relocated under the elevated Sobu Line tracks, which is regarded as the starting point of the electronics district. Kanda Myojin is located in Sotokanda 2-chome; every odd-numbered year in mid-May, the Kanda Festival is held, with a total of 108 ujiko (shrine parishioner) town associations. During the festival, each town's mikoshi first parades through its own town before entering the shrine, and mikoshi from the various towns also pass through the electronics district.
Akihabara Station is located in Sotokanda 1-chome, and together with Kanda-Sakumacho 1-chome and 2-chome, almost no one lived there in 2020. The people who do live there are in the surrounding towns; Sotokanda 2-chome, 4-chome, and 6-chome combined have about 3,000 residents. Iwamotocho grew from 1,068 people in 1995 to 3,763 people in 2020.
For daily convenience, this neighborhood ranks 1st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, with daily shopping ranking 1st and healthcare ranking 6th. Public transit also ranks 5th.
Akihabara Station is served by the JR Yamanote Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Chuo-Sobu Line, and Hibiya Line, with the Tsukuba Express added in 2005; about 220,000 people board JR trains there each day. Iwamotocho 3-chome also has Iwamotocho Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line.
Chiyoda City, where Akihabara is located, has a daytime population about 17.5 times its resident population, the highest in Tokyo. From our street photos, greenery ranks 284th out of 395 neighborhoods, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood.
In 1870, a fire-suppression shrine was built on vacant land left after a great fire; people mistakenly took it for Akiba Gongen, the god of fire prevention, so the vacant land came to be called "Akiba no Hara". In 1890 the railway was extended to Akihabara, but it handled only freight at the time.
In 1928, the Kanda Produce Market moved here.
In 1990, the produce market relocated to Ota City, and redevelopment of the former site began in 2003. In 2013, mAAch ecute Kanda Manseibashi opened on the site of the old Manseibashi Station, in the Kanda-Awajicho neighborhood outside this one.
A redevelopment of about 1.7 hectares in the southern part of Sotokanda 1-chome received final urban planning approval in March 2024. The uses for the two blocks are listed as offices, shops, lodging facilities, and the like; housing is not listed, and the completion year is not stated.
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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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