Takasago, renamed after pilgrims to Taishakuten disliked the old unlucky name, its station front packed with small shops
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Around Keisei-Takasago Station, houses and small shops are packed into small and mid-sized buildings. One minute's walk from the south exit is Ito-Yokado, with a food section on 1F open until 10pm. Further south is the Toei Takasago public housing complex, rebuilt starting in 2009, with the 3- and 4-story buildings replaced by 10- to 12-story ones.
Locally, "Keisei-Takasago" refers to this area around the station, sometimes including Hosoda too. This neighborhood covers Takasago 2- to 8-chome, plus Shinjuku 1- and 3-chome to the north and Hosoda 3- and 4-chome to the south, with a population of about 28,000 in 2020.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 63rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, placing it in the top tier — the strongest category for this neighborhood.
Keisei-Takasago is served by the Keisei Main Line, the Kanamachi Line, the Narita Sky Access Line, and the Hokuso Line, with the latter three lines all starting here. The Kanamachi Line, bound for Shibamata and Kanamachi, departs from the elevated Platform 5; you need to exit through the ticket gates to transfer.
Public transit ranks 326th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, placing it in the lower tier. The neighborhood stretches long from north to south, with its farthest boundary about 1.4 km from the station.
Two level crossings on the east side of the station carry both the Keisei Main Line and the Hokuso Line, and together with trains moving in and out of the depot, the barriers often stay down for long stretches during the day and at night as well. There are elevators on both sides of the crossings, so you can use the passage inside the station to get to the other side.
TidyMap calculated this using the Geospatial Information Authority's flood inundation hazard map, sampling points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood: almost every point falls within an area expected to flood, and about 70% of them are expected to see flooding of 3 meters or more. If the Arakawa and Edogawa rivers flood at the same time, the City's policy is to ask residents to evacuate in advance to higher ground outside the City (wide-area evacuation).
Katsushika City's flood hazard map was updated in March 2025.
Before Katsushika City was established in 1932, this area was known as Magarikane, a farming village. The station that opened in 1912 was also originally named Magarikane Station; the following year, visitors to Shibamata Taishakuten complained that the name was inauspicious, so it was changed to Takasago.
When Katsushika City was established, it took "Takasago," already in use as the station name, to replace Magarikane as the new town name.
There are 13 level crossings on the Keisei Main Line between Keisei-Takasago and Edogawa Station, and some stay down for more than 50 minutes during a peak hour. The City has been pushing to elevate this stretch of track, and in April 2022 it was designated by the national government as a new project ready to begin preparatory work. It is currently in the survey stage, and there is no set timeline for completion.
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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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