The Nakajuku shopping street of the old Itabashi post town on the Nakasendo, around the ward office, and east to Kaga, cut through by the Shakujii River, with the park on the Kaga clan's old estate, university campuses and apartment blocks
Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station is an underground station on the Toei Mita Line, linked to the Itabashi Ward Office by an underground passage. A one-minute walk north brings you to Nakajuku shopping street, which has around 150 shops. In the Edo period, this street was the centre of Itabashi-shuku, a post station on the old highway. Heading east through Itabashi 3-chome takes you to Kaga, an area with more universities and apartment buildings, with the Shakujii River running right through the middle of it.
Going by our street photos, pavements here rank 26th out of 174 Tokyo neighbourhoods, the best of the seven sub-categories. Greenery ranks 30th, and the cherry blossoms along both banks of the Shakujii River are one of the "Ten Views of Itabashi". Higashi-Itabashi Park in Itabashi 3-chome has a sports ground, a lawn, and the Itabashi Children's Zoo. You can reach Otemachi on the Mita Line with no transfers, in under 20 minutes.
Public transport ranks 154th, the weakest category for this neighbourhood, with the whole area served by just this one Mita Line station. Kaga itself has no station of its own — it's a 7- to 11-minute walk to either Jujo Station or Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station. Medical and pharmacy access ranks 147th; this category only counts clinics and pharmacies near your home and doesn't include hospitals, so by this measure there are fewer options nearby for everyday minor ailments or picking up medicine. There is a large hospital right in the neighbourhood, though: Teikyo University Hospital is in Kaga 2-chome.
In the Edo period, the Nakasendo (the inland road linking Edo to Kyoto) left Nihonbashi and its first post station was Itabashi-shuku. Nakajuku was its centre, and the area's only honjin (inn where daimyo stayed) was located here. In 1861, Princess Kazu, who was to marry the shogun Tokugawa Iemochi, spent a night at the Iida family's home in Nakajuku; the Itabashi Ward Public Archives record it as the Iida family's waki-honjin (secondary inn), though some accounts say it was actually the honjin. The area now known as Kaga 1-chome was at the time the lower residence (shimo-yashiki) of the Maeda family, lords of the Kaga domain, and Kaga Park preserves the remains of the garden's artificial hill. In 1876, the Meiji government built its first modern gunpowder factory here, which operated until 1945. After the war, research institutes and schools gradually moved in, and it wasn't until 1965 that the area was given the town name "Kaga".
The remains of the gunpowder factory were designated a National Historic Site in 2017. Itabashi Ward is now turning it into a historic park, opening up both the remains and the buildings, with full opening targeted for fiscal year 2029.
Compared with the 174 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
64 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-04
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