An office-workers' district where the Kanda River stopped the air-raid fires and prewar shops still stand
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Kanda-Sudacho 1-chome has a few pre-WWII shop buildings surviving at the foot of its high-rises. During the 1945 Tokyo air raids, the Kanda River blocked the spread of fire, so part of Sudacho's prewar buildings survived into the 21st century.
Many people work here but few live here: in 2021, over 13,000 people worked in Sudacho 1-chome, while in 2025 only 1,245 people lived here. Those who do live here mostly have their homes in high-rises: in 2020, two-thirds of households in this neighborhood were in buildings 11 stories or taller, compared to 60% for Chiyoda City as a whole.
The people who live here tend to be young and single. In 2020, about 66% of households were single-person households, and those aged 25 to 39 made up about a third, both higher than Chiyoda City overall. Over half of households live in privately rented housing.
Healthcare ranks 1st out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, and daily shopping ranks 3rd, the two highest-ranking categories for this neighborhood. Transit ranks 9th; Kanda Station has three JR lines plus the Ginza Line.
Exiting Awajicho Station through the ticket gate facing Ikebukuro leads directly to Ogawamachi Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line. To transfer to the Chiyoda Line, you need to walk about 7 minutes to Shin-ochanomizu Station, outside the neighborhood.
The Otemachi Gate Building is in Uchikanda 1-chome, due for completion in July 2026. The building includes a plaza of about 1,000 m², and a new pedestrian bridge crosses the Nihombashi River, connecting Otemachi Nakadori to Kanda.
WATERRAS in Awajicho 2-chome was completed in 2013, with 333 housing units in the high-rise. Another building has 36 student studio units, on the condition that residents take part in editing the community newsletter and organizing events.
Few people live in this neighborhood: in 2020, there were 95 residents per hectare, compared to about 155 per hectare for Tokyo's 23 wards overall. Households with children under 18 make up about 12% here, compared to about 18% for Chiyoda City overall. Judging from our street photos, greenery ranks 344th out of 395 neighborhoods, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
During the Keicho era, the local headman Kawazu Gorodayu opened a vegetable market in Tacho, which became an official market for the shogunate after the Great Fire of Meireki. After the Great Kanto Earthquake destroyed the market, it relocated to Akihabara in 1928, ending over 300 years of history. Today, condominium towers continue to increase in Tacho.
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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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