A long park beneath the pylons, leading to a riverside Kiki's Delivery Service literary museum
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A high-voltage transmission line runs east-west across Minami-Kasai, and since no buildings can be built directly beneath it, the strip of land has been turned into a long park. This multi-purpose leisure park stretches about 3 km east from in front of Nishi-Kasai Station, and the neighborhood covers the eastern stretch, as far as Nagisa Park by the Kyu-Edogawa. Fuji Park has fitness play equipment, and Nagisa Park has pony rides, an herb garden, and a magical literature museum exhibiting Kiki's Delivery Service, which opened in 2023.
Homes line both sides of the park: the north side is mostly detached houses and apartment buildings, while the south side has large housing complexes such as Nagisa New Town and the Horie housing complex.
Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 3rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood. Street cleanliness ranks 26th, also near the top.
There's no station within the neighborhood, so residents normally rely on Toei buses to reach Kasai Station. The Kasai 21 bus runs via Nagisa New Town to Kasai Rinkai Park Station, and the Kasai 24 bus runs from Nagisa New Town via Kasai Station to Funabori Station. Listings for Nagisa New Town state that the bus to Kasai Station takes about 15 minutes.
Except for a corner of Chome 5 and the stretch along Kan-nana at the northern edge, all of Minami-Kasai is more than 1 km from a station. Public transit and medical/pharmacy access rank 383rd and 355th respectively, both near the bottom.
For listings, the nearest station in the northern half tends to be Kasai Station, while the southern half tends to be Kasai Rinkai Park Station. Walking times range from 11 minutes from Chome 1 to Kasai Station, to as much as 20 minutes to either station from Chome 3.
This area is less than 1 km from Tokyo Bay, and without levees it would flood at high tide. Using the flood inundation hazard maps from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan, TidyMap sampled points about every 40 meters across the neighborhood: excluding water surfaces, about 85% fall within the projected flood zone, mostly at depths of 0.5 to 3 meters.
About three days before a major flood event, the five Koto-area cities jointly decide whether residents should evacuate, in principle all of them, to areas outside their own city (wide-area evacuation). Edogawa City's flood hazard map includes area-specific maps marking the expected flood depth at each location.
This area was originally a delta at the mouth of the Edogawa River, reclaimed during the Edo period as part of Horie Shinden. A public levee was built in 1957, but flooding, land subsidence, and salt damage still made the land difficult to farm.
In 1967, Tokyo Electric Power Company strung transmission lines across this wasteland, and the area directly beneath them is today's park. In 1979, a residential address reform was implemented, and Horie-cho was renamed Minami-Kasai 1-chome through 7-chome.
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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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