Aoto: a residential area that grew up around postwar danchi, with a shopping centre right beneath the elevated station
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Aoto Station is elevated on a viaduct, and right beneath it on the ground floor is the shopping center Your Elm Aoto. The supermarket Libre Keisei inside stays open until 11pm.
Head north out of the station and you're in a residential area that only grew up after the war. In 1956 the public housing corporation began recruiting residents for the Aoto danchi housing complex, and the population grew along with it.
This neighborhood covers Aoto 1-chome through 7-chome on the west bank of the Nakagawa river, plus Takasago 1-chome and Okudo 7-chome on the opposite bank; as of 2020 about 29,000 people lived here. The station name and the town name are written with different characters and have different origins, but happen to share the same reading, so they're often mixed up with each other.
From our street photos, sidewalks rank 67th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, near the top - the strongest showing of any category in this neighborhood.
Aoto is the station where the Keisei Main Line and the Oshiage Line branch apart; trains coming from the Keisei-Takasago direction and trains on the Oshiage Line stop on the same level, so you don't need to go up or down stairs to transfer. The Oshiage Line runs through directly onto the Toei Asakusa Line and the Keikyu Line, all the way to Haneda Airport.
Medical care and pharmacies rank 278th, near the bottom. That said, Jikei University Katsushika Medical Center is in Aoto 6-chome, about a 10-minute walk from the station, and it sees patients on holidays and at night too.
Public transit ranks 326th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, near the bottom. The neighborhood stretches north as far as Aoto 7-chome, where the farthest edge is about 1.6 km from the station.
Based on the Geospatial Information Authority's flood inundation hazard maps, TidyMap sampled points roughly every 40 meters across the neighborhood: about 90% of those points fall within areas expected to flood, mostly to a depth of 3 meters or more. If the Arakawa and Edogawa rivers were to flood at the same time, the City's policy is to ask residents to evacuate in advance to higher ground outside the City (wide-area evacuation).
Katsushika City's flood hazard map was last updated in March 2025.
Kasai Castle is generally thought to have been built in the mid-15th century beside a bend in the Nakagawa river, and during the Sengoku period it served as a stronghold first for the Uesugi clan and later for the Later Hojo clan. After the castle was abandoned in 1590, three generations of the Tokugawa shoguns, from Ieyasu to Iemitsu, built the Aoto Goten on the castle site for falconry outings, and it was torn down around 1657.
The castle ruins remained buried after that, and weren't confirmed until they were excavated during work on the Kan-nana road in 1972. The Kan-nana road cuts right through the center of what was the main castle grounds, and the land split on either side became Gotenyama Park and the Kasai Castle Ruins Park.
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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