A residential area between two Tojo Line stations, with a shopping street and a park where you can see the trains
Kita-Ikebukuro Station handles about 10,700 entries and exits a day, the fewest of any station east of Higashi-Matsuyama on the Tojo Line. The residential area runs along both sides of the tracks, and walking about 800 metres northwest along the tracks brings you to the next station, Shimo-Itabashi. There's a shopping street on the way to Shimo-Itabashi, and next to Shimo-Itabashi Station there's a park whose name says it all: Ikebukuro-Honcho Train-Viewing Park, "the park where you can see the trains".
For shopping, people rely on that shopping street near Shimo-Itabashi and the area along Meiji-dori; for everyday shopping it ranks 75th out of Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods, in the upper-middle range. East of the tracks, Kami-Ikebukuro is mostly a postwar residential area full of narrow lanes, aside from the commercial strip along Meiji-dori. Koyasu Inari Shrine in Kami-Ikebukuro 2-chome is said to have been rebuilt around 1573, and locals pray there for safe childbirth.
The level crossings on either side of Kita-Ikebukuro Station span four passenger tracks of the Tojo Line and Saikyo Line, and at rush hour they become crossings that never open. There's a pedestrian-only underpass on the north side of the station with very steep stairs, and at rush hour even cyclists use it. Based on our street photos, the neighborhood environment ranks 206th out of Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods, and the buildings rank 211th, both in the lower range.
Shimo-Itabashi Station opened in 1914 with the Tojo Railway, and only moved to its current location in 1935. The Tojo Line originally wanted to start from Otsuka-Tsujimachi (near today's Shin-Otsuka Station), but Tokyo City blocked this at the time, so it had to start from Shimo-Itabashi instead. In 1920, Sakuma Seika, makers of Sakuma Drops, built a factory in Kami-Ikebukuro 2-chome, which ran until the company dissolved during the war. Kita-Ikebukuro Station opened in 1934 under the name Horinouchi Station. The air raids of April 1945 damaged more than half the area of both Ikebukuro-Honcho and Kami-Ikebukuro, and the station building collapsed. In 1951, the station reopened on the same site under the name Kita-Ikebukuro.
Compared with the 219 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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Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods 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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