A narrow old shitamachi of crisscrossing lanes, with one disaster-prevention alley the residents planted and tend themselves
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Sekibara is an old shitamachi neighborhood north of the Arakawa Drainage Channel levee, with narrow lanes crisscrossing and houses and small shops lined up side by side. In 2-chome there's a 110-meter private lane that residents lent the land for free to turn into a disaster-prevention green lane planted with trees and fitted with water tanks and firefighting equipment, which the residents look after themselves day to day.
Residents also hold fire drills in this lane. It won the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism's Handmade Hometown Award in 1990, and the Grand Prize in 2005.
The neighborhood name Sekibara comes from Sekibara Fudoin Daishoji temple in 2-chome, and was only fixed when the residential address system was put in place in 1970. In 2020 the whole neighborhood had about ten thousand people, about 144 per hectare, a bit denser than Adachi City's overall average of about 131; the average household size was 2.09 people.
There's no station within the neighborhood; people usually walk to Umejima Station or Nishiarai Station on the Tobu Isesaki Line, or take a local bus. Listings for buildings in Sekibara 2-chome on real estate websites show walking times of 10 to 18 minutes to Umejima Station and 10 to 17 minutes to Nishiarai Station. 1-chome is farther away: 16 to 25 minutes to Umejima Station, 18 to 22 minutes to Nishiarai Station.
Sekibara no Mori in 1-chome was created when Adachi City Office bought a kindergarten that had closed down and converted it; it houses the Motoki-Sekibara Community Center for children and seniors.
Based on our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 298th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood, though it's still in the lower range.
There's no station in the neighborhood; it takes 10 to 25 minutes to walk to one. Public transit ranks 379th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
Daily shopping ranks 344th, also in the lower range.
In 1929, what is now Sekibara 2-chome saw the opening of the Sekibara Branch School of Motoki Jinjo Koto Elementary School, the earliest example of a public facility name using "Sekibara".
The branch school later became a branch of Sekibara Elementary School, and when it closed it was the last branch school in the 23 wards; the site is now Sekibara Bunko Ato Park. So the name "Sekibara" was in use more than forty years before the 1970 neighborhood name.
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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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