Temple after temple in Karasuyama Teramachi, with migratory birds visiting the duck pond in winter
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Karasuyama Teramachi has 26 temples lined up along Jiin-dori, spread across Kita-Karasuyama 2-chome and 4- through 6-chome; this neighborhood covers the 4- and 5-chome part of it. At the northern end of the temple town, Kogen-in has a duck pond, and since the autumn of 1960, teal ducks and spot-billed ducks have been flying in to spend the winter there.
The pond is fed by what's called "chusui" (perched groundwater): in the temple town area, this kind of groundwater sits unusually high, so even a shallow well will hit water. The trees and springs of the temple town, plus the yashiki-bayashi (windbreak forests around farmhouses) and the green paths, make up the walking routes used by people living around Karasuyama.
In 2020, about 20,000 people lived in this neighborhood, or about 139 per hectare.
Going by our street photos, greenery ranks 109th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, putting it in the upper tier. The Setagaya City Office also describes the Karasuyama area as a quiet residential area that still has scattered farmland.
There's no station inside the neighborhood, so commuting means first walking to Chitose-Karasuyama Station. On CHINTAI, listings in Kita-Karasuyama 5-, 7-, 8-, and 9-chome all list Chitose-Karasuyama Station first, with walks of 9 to 20 minutes.
Convenience ranks 367th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and transit ranks 372nd, with both in the lower tier.
For the walk to Chitose-Karasuyama Station, listings in 8-chome list 18 to 20 minutes, while 9-chome ranges anywhere from 9 to 20 minutes.
Before the temple town existed, this area was the sparsely populated edge of Chitose Village, covered in mixed woods, farmland, and wasteland. After the 1923 Great Kanto Earthquake, temples that had been damaged in shitamachi areas like Asakusa, Tsukiji, and Honjo relocated here as a group, with most of the moves happening in 1927 and 1928.
In the 1970s, one of the temples planned to rebuild as a building with a basement, and digging a basement would require pumping large amounts of groundwater. Residents and the temples formed an association in 1975 to protect the temple town's environment, signing the "Karasuyama Teramachi Environmental Agreement". In March 1985, Kogen-in's pond was designated the "Karasuyama Benten Pond Special Protection Area".
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