Winding lanes, beneath your feet a village from 1,500 years ago
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Most of Iko's streets are narrow and winding, and one of them is even called Nanamagari (seven bends). On the natural levee of the Kenaga River, where the Iko archaeological site stands, people were already living in settlements around 1,500 years ago, during the Kofun period.
The area around Higashi-Iko 4-chome has many temples, earning it the nickname Iko Teramachi (Iko temple town). Iko Hikawa Shrine was the guardian shrine of the former Iko village, generally believed to have been built on a burial mound of the Iko Kofun Cluster, and its grounds are thickly wooded.
As of 2020, the neighborhood had about 25,000 people, averaging 2.2 per household, or about 127 people per hectare. The Adachi City resident services office, library, and community center are all in the Iko area.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 98th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the best ranking of any category in this neighborhood.
This neighborhood has no station of its own. Apartment listings on real estate websites for Iko 1-chome through 5-chome all list Takenotsuka Station, a 5- to 16-minute walk. Higashi-Iko 1-chome and 3-chome are a 9- to 17-minute walk, while some buildings in 2-chome instead list Toneri Station, a 17- to 18-minute walk.
Nishi-Iko 2-chome and 3-chome walk to Toneri Koen Station on the Nippori-Toneri Liner, about 8 to 15 minutes. Takenotsuka Station is served only by Local trains, and since 2020 almost all trains starting or ending at this station through-run directly onto the Hibiya Line.
With no station inside the neighborhood, convenience ranks 343rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and public transit ranks 367th.
Iko 1-chome and 2-chome are both more than an 11-minute walk to Takenotsuka Station, along streets that are mostly narrow and winding.
Excavations at the Iko archaeological site have turned up Kofun-period settlement remains and ritual objects in such quantity that they could not all be dug up, so Adachi City simply bought the land to preserve it. The Iko Archaeological Site Park in Higashi-Iko 4-chome has reconstructed pit dwellings and square moat-surrounded burial mounds, with an exhibition hall next door displaying the excavated artifacts.
Iko became independent as Iko Village in 1891, was absorbed into Tokyo City as part of Adachi City in 1932, split off Higashi-Iko-cho and Nishi-Iko-cho in 1968, and only took its present form as Iko 1-chome through 5-chome in 1987.
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