A big park on the Sumida River and the Meijiza theatre, in the most populous town in Nihombashi
Hamacho Park is the largest park in Chuo Ward, facing the Sumida River, with Toei Shinjuku Line's Hamacho Station right below it. Next to the park is Meijiza, where performances have one or two intermissions of about 30 minutes each, during which audiences eat at the theatre's dining hall. More and more people have been living in this area. The population of Nihombashi-Hamacho grew from 3,675 in 1995 to 11,778 in 2020, making it the most populous town in the Nihombashi area. As the population grew, shops followed: there used to be only small independent shops here, and more shops opened one by one after the Nihombashi Hamacho F Tower redevelopment in the 2000s.
For daily shopping, this ranks 24th among Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods, with supermarkets and convenience stores never far from home. Public transit ranks 7th, because there's more than one line nearby. About 500 metres northwest as the crow flies is Higashi-Nihombashi Station on the Asakusa Line; about 580 metres west is Ningyocho Station, where both the Hibiya Line and Asakusa Line stop.
Hamacho Station itself only has the Shinjuku Line, and it has the fewest passengers of any station on the Shinjuku Line. To use other lines, you'll need to walk to Ningyocho Station or Higashi-Nihombashi Station outside the neighborhood, or to Suitengumae Station on the Hanzomon Line, about 700 metres away. Healthcare ranks 109th out of the 219 neighborhoods, in the middle; but based on our street photos, street cleanliness ranks near the top, at 26th. The western boundary of Hamacho is the Hamacho Ryokudo greenway, built over the filled-in Hamacho River; Ningyocho, on the other side, is not part of this neighborhood.
During the Edo period, the land now occupied by Hamacho Park was the shimo-yashiki (secondary residences outside the castle) of daimyo such as the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa and the Hosokawa family of Kumamoto domain. Nakasu, to the south, was originally a sandbar in the Sumida River, filled in and connected to Hamacho in 1771. In 1789 it was removed again because of flooding and the Kansei Reforms, and was not refilled until 1886. In 1873, Kishoza, the predecessor of Meijiza, opened in Hisamatsucho, and was renamed Meijiza in 1893. The theater moved to Hamacho in 1928; the following year, Hamacho Park, planned after the Great Kanto Earthquake, opened. In 1971 the waterway between Nakasu and Hamacho was filled in, finally connecting the two areas completely; that same year, Higashi-Nihombashi 1-chome was formed by merging five towns including the former Muramatsucho and Yagenboricho. Hamacho Station opened in 1978; during construction, a Naumann elephant fossil was unearthed near the station and named the "Hamacho Specimen".
Compared with the 219 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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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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