The old-town blocks around JR Kameido Station: Jusangen-dori and other old shopping streets, Kameido Clock by the station, and north to Katori Shrine and the wisteria of Kameido Tenjin
At JR Kameido Station, the north exit gates open straight into the Atre Kameido station building, and Kameido Clock is a two-minute walk from the east exit. Heading north, Meiji-dori becomes a pedestrian zone on Sunday and holiday afternoons, all the way to the Kameido 4-chome intersection. Further north, old shopping streets such as Jusangen-dori and Katori Shoun lead you to Kameido Tenjin and Katori Shrine.
Right by the station are the Atre Kameido and Kameido Clock shopping centres, and to the north there are several old shopping streets; daily shopping ranks 64th among Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods, in the middle of the pack. In our street photos, sidewalks rank 44th, the strongest of this neighbourhood's scores. The Kameido Tenjin grounds have more than 300 plum trees, and during the wisteria festival from late April to early May you can look down on the whole wisteria trellis from the arched bridge.
JR trains here are Chuo-Sobu Line local services only. The JR east exit gate is tucked in a back lane behind the Keiyo-doro road, and first-timers often can't find it. Building condition ranks 100th of 155, the weakest of this neighbourhood's seven sub-scores. The area is ringed by rivers on every side, and in the great flood of 1910 the Tenjin area was under 8 shaku of water, about 2.4 metres.
There are several stories behind the name Kameido: one says there was an old well called Kame-no-i with a turtle-shaped well curb, another that the place looked like a turtle back when it was an island. Kameido's Katori Shrine is said to have been founded in 665, when Nakatomi no Kamatari enshrined the deity here on a journey east. In 1662 Kameido Tenjin was laid out after Dazaifu Tenmangu, with a heart-shaped pond and arched bridges, and Utagawa Hiroshige later painted that bridge for "One Hundred Famous Views of Edo". In 1904 the Sobu Railway and then the Tobu Railway opened stations here. The Kameido Clock site was the Tokyo factory of Daini Seikosha from 1939, later became Sunstreet Kameido, and only took its present form in 2022.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
110 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-02
Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods 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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