Between homes and small factories, 6,000 irises bloom in the garden every June
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Horikiri is a place where homes, small factories, and the shopping street around the station all mix together. About 10 minutes southwest of Horikirishobuen Station is Horikirishobuen, the garden the station is named after. The garden has 200 varieties and 6,000 plants of Japanese iris, blooming best in mid-June, and admission is free.
During the flowering season, from early June to around the 20th, there's an iris festival, with local residents, the shopping street, and Katsushika City Office together holding a parade. In 2020, about 28,000 people lived in this neighborhood. Along the Arakawa, Horikiri 1, 2, and 4-chome, which include the riverbed and the Shuto Expressway, are more sparsely populated; around the station, in 3 and 5-chome, density reaches over 160 people per hectare.
Healthcare (medical and pharmacies) ranks 185th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking category in this neighborhood, placing it in the middle tier. Katsushika City Office's Horikiri Resident Services Office is right around the station.
Public transit ranks 213th, also in the middle tier. Horikirishobuen Station is an elevated station on the Keisei Main Line, served only by Local trains, with a direct train with no transfer to Nippori and Keisei Ueno.
Buses in front of the station go to Ayase Station and Shin-Koiwa Station, with an additional route to Kameari Station on weekends and holidays.
From our street photos, buildings rank 386th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category in this neighborhood. Greenery ranks 376th, also in the lower tier.
Across the Arakawa is Tobu Horikiri Station, but to get there you have to go around via Horikiri Bridge upstream, adding about 1 kilometer to the walk.
Horikiri sits on low-lying land on the eastern bank of the Arakawa. Based on the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's largest-scale flood hazard map, we sampled points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood and calculated them ourselves; about 80% of the points fall within the flood-risk zone, and all of them are at 3 meters or more. The points that don't fall within it are all in Horikiri 1, 2, and 4-chome, which include the Arakawa riverbed.
Katsushika City asks residents to check the city's flood hazard map. In the event of a storm surge from a major typhoon, or simultaneous flooding of the Arakawa and Edogawa rivers, Katsushika City Office's policy is to evacuate in advance to higher ground outside the city that won't flood.
The cultivation of Japanese iris in Horikiri is said to have begun in either the Muromachi or Edo period. Before the 1930s, this area was still a farming village on the outskirts of Edo, where several iris gardens clustered together and became a famous outing destination.
Around 1932, when it was incorporated into Tokyo City, the area began to urbanize and the environment worsened; by the time of the Pacific War, only Horikiri Garden remained among the iris gardens. In 1959, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government purchased Horikiri Garden and opened it to the public, and in 1975 it was transferred to Katsushika City, becoming today's Horikirishobuen.
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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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