Where Edo's five highways began and Japan's securities district stands, with a pickled radish market that stays busy until late every October
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In the Edo period, Nihombashi was the starting point of the five great roads (the Gokaido). Kabutocho was once synonymous with Japan's securities industry, and by day it belongs to the people who work there. Every year on October 19 and 20, the pickled daikon market has stalls stretching all the way from Takarada Ebisu Shrine to Odemmacho, and people keep browsing until late at night.
A former bank branch was converted at the end of 2022 into a bakery, a bistro, and a coffee bar, and it still keeps its heavy vault. Also in Kabutocho, K5 is a 1923 bank annex; the steel plates on its exterior walls were removed, and after renovation it was restored to look as it did when completed, with a coffee shop inside the building.
The people who live here skew young: in this neighborhood, those aged 25 to 44 make up about 43%, higher than Chuo City overall. In 2020, 2,019 people lived in Kabutocho and Kayabacho. About two-thirds of households across the whole neighborhood are single-person households, and about 54% are renters, both higher than Chuo City overall.
At the north end, Kodemmacho and Odemmacho had 2,809 residents. During the two days of the pickled daikon market, there are about 400 to 500 stalls around Odemmacho.
Public transit ranks 1st among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, and the overall score ranks 1st. Convenience of daily life ranks 3rd. Each end of the neighborhood has a station: Kayabacho Station has the Hibiya Line and the Tozai Line, and Kodemmacho Station has the Hibiya Line.
This area is mainly offices, wholesale, and finance; in 2020, only about 45 people lived per hectare, compared to about 167 for Chuo City overall. Yaesu 1-chome and 2-chome had only 38 people, while Nihombashi 1-chome to 3-chome had 308.
There's also large-scale construction underway in the neighborhood: Tokyo Midtown Nihombashi was completed only at the end of September 2026. YAESU CORE in Yaesu 2-chome is scheduled for completion in 2029.
Odemmacho, north of Nihombashi, was Edo's largest textile wholesale street, with as many as 74 cotton wholesalers. The pickled daikon market is also something left behind by merchants: Edo merchants celebrated the Ebisu-ko festival on October 20, and the day before, street vendors gathered in front of the shrine to set up stalls.
In the Meiji era, Shibusawa Eiichi took the lead in Kabutocho; the First National Bank was set up here, and in 1878 the Tokyo Stock Exchange was also established here. Kabutocho became synonymous with the securities industry, and the K5 building is the annex of the third-generation building of the First National Bank.
Tokyo Midtown Nihombashi is scheduled to fully open in 2027, including 71 rental housing units. The Shuto Expressway elevated section above Edobashi is scheduled to be demolished around 2040.
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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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