A neighborhood with plenty of detached houses, where Sunamachi Ginza alone has about 180 shops along one street
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In Kitasuna, the Sunamachi Ginza shopping street has big sales on the 10th of every month. The street runs east-west for about 670 meters, with around 180 shops today, selling everything from food to everyday household goods. About 15,000 people walk through on weekdays and about 20,000 on weekends.
There are more detached houses on Kitasuna's streets than in Koto City as a whole: in 2020, about a quarter of households lived in detached houses, twice the ratio for Koto City overall. People living in this area also skew older, with those 65 and up making up about 27%, higher than Koto City overall.
Going by our street photos, sidewalks rank 53rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. Healthcare ranks 76th, landing a bit above the middle.
Onagigawa, Dai-Roku Sunamachi, Kametaka, Sunamachi, and Kitasuna Elementary Schools, along with Sunamachi and Dai-Yon Sunamachi Junior High Schools, are all within the neighborhood. Kitasuna is also home to the Koto City Sunamachi Library, and the long, narrow Sendaibori River Park runs through here too. Kitasuna 2-chome also has the Ario Kitasuna shopping mall, which opened in 2010.
This area is some distance from the train station, so buses are a common way to connect, running mainly along Kiyosubashi-dori and Meiji-dori to stations like Kameido and Kinshicho. Public transit ranks 374th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, last place; everyday convenience also ranks only 316th.
Even though there's a shopping street for everyday errands, the score still ranks only 264th. Buildings rank 330th, landing in the lower section; but only 58% of the sampled grid squares in this neighborhood have usable street photos, so the score should be taken with a grain of salt.
In the Meiji era, the area along the Onagigawa River developed industry thanks to water transport, and Kitasuna had a refined sugar factory run by Dai Nippon Seito. The Toshiba Sunamachi Plant was demolished between 1965 and 1974, and the site became the UR Kitasuna 5-chome housing complex, which began accepting residents in 1976.
Before the war, the shopping street had only about 30 shops, and it was burned to scorched earth in the 1945 air raids. After the war the number of shops grew, reaching about 180 by around 1963.
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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