The birthplace of Kanegafuchi Spinning, where a 1.2-kilometer firewall danchi stands on the old factory site
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Kanegafuchi Boseki (Kanebo for short) was founded here in 1887, and the company took its name from the place name Kanegafuchi. Head west from the station to Tsutsumidori, and along Bokutei-dori stands a housing complex called Shirahige Higashi, about 40 meters tall and roughly 1.2 kilometers long, built on the former site of Kanebo's Tokyo factory.
This row of housing also serves as a firewall, blocking fires from spreading through the densely packed blocks nearby. To the north, the former factory site in Sumida 5-chome is now a logistics center, and in the corner of Kanebo Park stands a stone monument marking the company's birthplace.
This neighborhood covers Sumida 2- to 5-chome and Tsutsumidori 2-chome; about 19,000 people lived here in 2020, roughly 113 per hectare.
For public transit, this neighborhood ranks 182nd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, putting it in the middle. Kanegafuchi Station has separate ticket gates for the up and down platforms, and once inside you can't cross to the other side.
For everyday shopping it ranks 332nd, and for greenery 329th, both toward the bottom. The street-photo grid points used for scoring are mostly in Sumida 4- and 5-chome and Tsutsumidori 2-chome, with many of the latter falling inside Higashi-Shirahige Park.
Buildings rank 390th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood. The Kanegafuchi area is densely packed with wooden houses, so the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has designated it a Special Fire-Resistance Promotion Zone, with plans to widen Kanegafuchi-dori and other roads.
Using the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard map, TidyMap sampled points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood and calculated the figures itself: about 80% of the points fall within a projected flood zone, and about half are projected to see flooding of 3 meters or more. Sumida 2- and 3-chome are almost entirely in the 3-meters-or-more zone, while Tsutsumidori 2-chome is mostly in the 0.5-to-3-meter range.
Check your own address on Sumida City's hazard map; the five cities of Sumida, Koto, Adachi, Katsushika, and Edogawa have also drawn up a joint wide-area evacuation plan.
Kanebo's spinning factory was completed in 1889. The site of Shirahige Higashi was the former Tokyo factory, which shut down in 1962; the Tokyo Metropolitan Government purchased the land, and the housing complex was completed in March 1982. The factory in Sumida 5-chome switched to cosmetics production in 1963 and closed in 1969.
Mokubo-ji Temple was also relocated to its current site because of the construction of the Shirahige disaster-prevention housing.
In September 2022, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government designated the area around Kanegafuchi Station as a "candidate project section" for elevating the tracks, with a concept running the elevated line all the way from Higashi-mukojima Station to the south side of Horikiri Station. According to a February 2023 report, construction can only begin after further steps including an urban planning decision and environmental assessment.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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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