A printing and publishing district on both banks of the Kanda River, two minutes from Jizo-dori shopping street
Edogawabashi is a neighborhood split in two by the Kanda River: the north bank is Bunkyo Ward, and the south bank is Shinjuku Ward. On the north bank, the high ground toward Otowa and Sekiguchi is a steady uphill climb; the south bank is flat, with printing plants, bookbinders, and old houses mixed together in the alleys. After the war, publishing, distribution, and printing companies clustered on both banks of the river. The Printing Museum on the north bank in Suido was established by Toppan Printing, and visitors can try letterpress printing there. The "Edogawa" in the station name actually comes from an old name for about a 2.1-kilometre stretch of the middle Kanda River, and the riverbank used to be known for its cherry blossoms and fireflies. From Edogawabashi Station, it's about a 2-minute walk to Jizo-dori shopping street.
Jizo-dori shopping street has about 80 shops, lined up along a cross-shaped street roughly 250 metres east-west and 150 metres north-south. The street's name comes from Kosodate Jizo, the Jizo who watches over children as they grow up, said to have washed up here when the Kanda River flooded. For everyday shopping, it ranks 3rd among Tokyo's 193 neighborhoods, the best of its seven categories; daily errands can be done right on the shopping street. The station is served by only the Yurakucho Line, so public transit ranks 80th, right in the middle.
Going by our street photos, cleanliness ranks 144th, toward the lower end; architecture ranks 128th, somewhat toward the lower-middle. On the east side of Suido 1-chome, you'll find mid-to-high-rise buildings like apartments, official housing, and data centres, while the west side and 2-chome have low- to mid-rise housing packed in alongside printing and publishing businesses. The small living lanes and little shopping streets too narrow for cars are still there.
During the Edo period, residents were ordered by the shogunate to regularly clean out the Kanda Josui, and the town name Suido comes from that waterway. The water upstream on the Edogawa was clean, so paper-making workshops were set up here. Cherry trees planted starting around 1884 numbered as many as 241 at their peak, but most disappeared after the riverbank construction was completed in 1919. In 1969, part of the Shuto Expressway Route 5 Ikebukuro Line opened on an elevated section, and the following year this stretch of the river was renamed from Edogawa to Kanda River. The Yurakucho Line opened in 1974, and Edogawabashi Station opened along with it, with the station name carried over from the old Toden tram stop. From the Heisei era onward, printing plant and logistics sites were gradually redeveloped into apartments, offices, and data centres.
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Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods 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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