A district name only since 1967, with century-old giant trees in what was once the Tokugawa family's woodland
Sengoku is not an old place name, but a new town name that only appeared in 1967, formed by merging old towns like Nishimarucho, Oharacho, and Hayashicho; the name was taken from Senkawa, Nakasendo, and Koishikawa. In the 1-chome area right outside Sengoku Station there's a stand of trees left behind by the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family, now called Sengoku Ryokuchi. It sits on a gentle slope where the Hakusan plateau meets the Sashigaya lowland, and the muku trees in the park are estimated to be over a hundred years old, among the largest trees in Bunkyo Ward. West of the station are the quiet residential areas of 2-chome and 3-chome; to the northwest, 4-chome is close to Sugamo, and Hakusan-dori there has many restaurants.
Within the precincts of the Inari Shrine in 4-chome is Sugamo Otori Shrine, about a 5-minute walk from Sengoku Station. It has held the Tori-no-ichi since 1864, a festival market held every November on Rooster days. Greenery ranks 57th out of Tokyo's 193 neighborhoods, a solid upper-range position, and Sengoku Ryokuchi is one of the spaces behind that. From our street photos, cleanliness ranks 40th, also in the upper range.
Sengoku Station is served only by the Mita Line, so public transit ranks 132nd, in the lower range. Daily shopping ranks 125th, in the lower-middle range. As of 2021, there was no large supermarket around Sengoku Station, and 3-chome was almost entirely residential, with few shopping facilities. For more options, it's about a 10-minute, 800-metre walk to the neighboring Sugamo Station area.
Kosodate Inari Shrine was founded in 1688, and from 1849 it drew large numbers of worshippers under the name "Kosodate Inari"; later, Sugamo Otori Shrine within its precincts became even more famous. The town name "Sengoku" only came into being in 1967 when the residential address system was put in place, and has nothing to do with the rice-yield unit of the same name, a "thousand koku". In June 1972, Sengoku Station opened on Toei Line 6; before opening, its provisional name was the old place name "Kagomachi," and the line was renamed the Mita Line in 1978. In 1989, the Hitotsubashi Tokugawa family donated the wooded land in Sengoku 1-chome to Bunkyo Ward, and in 1994 it was established as Sengoku Ryokuchi.
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