Mukojima-Hyakkaen Garden, opened over 200 years ago, is still here, and the Tobu Museum sits under the elevated station
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Mukojima-Hyakkaen Garden is in Higashi-mukojima 3-chome, about 350 meters west of Higashi-mukojima Station. It was laid out around 1804 by the antique dealer Sahara Kikuu, and was designated a National Historic Site and Place of Scenic Beauty in 1978. Every year in late September, the garden's roughly 30-meter-long bush clover (hagi) tunnel blooms.
The station became elevated in 1967, and the Tobu Museum, which opened in 1989, sits right underneath it. The museum displays steam locomotives and electric trains that actually ran on the Tobu network, and you can also watch trains pass by through a window directly below the platform. The station name sign also notes that this is the station for the Tobu Museum.
This neighborhood covers Higashi-mukojima 3- to 6-chome, Sumida 1-chome, and Tsutsumidori 1-chome; as of 2020 about 21,000 people lived there, roughly 206 per hectare.
For medical and pharmacy access, this neighborhood ranks 61st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for public transit it ranks 104th; both near the top.
However, Hanzomon Line through trains don't stop at this station except during service disruptions. Tsutsumidori 1-chome has no station of its own, so residents there walk to Higashi-mukojima Station or Kanegafuchi Station to catch a train.
Greenery ranks 350th and buildings rank 330th, both toward the bottom. The street photo grid used for scoring is mostly made up of Higashi-mukojima 3- to 6-chome, with Sumida 1-chome and Tsutsumidori 1-chome each contributing only 6 squares.
Using the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard map, TidyMap sampled points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood and calculated the figures itself: every point in the neighborhood fell within a hazard zone, with about 80% at 3 meters or more, and most of the rest between 0.5 and 3 meters. The shallower points are mostly in Tsutsumidori 1-chome.
For your own address, check Sumida City's hazard map; the five cities of Sumida, Koto, Adachi, Katsushika, and Edogawa have also drawn up a joint wide-area evacuation plan.
Higashi-mukojima Station's name has changed several times: when it opened in 1902 it was called Shirahige Station, it was suspended in 1905 when the Kameido Line opened, and it was abolished in 1908.
It reopened in 1924 under the name Tamanoi Station, and only took on its current name in December 1987; the station name sign still notes "formerly Tamanoi".
In September 2022, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government designated the area around Kanegafuchi Station as a "candidate project section" for elevating the line, with the plan calling for the tracks to be elevated continuously from Higashi-mukojima Station past Kanegafuchi Station to the south side of Horikiri Station. According to a February 2023 report, construction can only begin after the project goes through urban planning decisions and environmental assessment.
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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