Senkawa, a residential street on the old Edo waterway, still lined with cherry trees, with the Kumagai Morikazu Museum
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Senkawa Josui, a waterway dug in 1696, is now mostly buried underground. Along part of its old course in this area, a row of cherry trees still lines the former waterway. The place names Senkawa 1-chome and 2-chome come from this waterway.
Chihaya 2-chome is home to the Kumagai Morikazu Art Museum; the painter Kumagai Morikazu lived here from 1932 until his death in 1977 at the age of 97, and the museum, which opened in 1985, is now City-run.
The neighborhood's grid was laid out in a land readjustment in the early Showa era, and neat blocks of greenery-rich residential streets stretch on and on. Senkawa 1-chome and 2-chome, Kanamecho 3-chome, and Takamatsu 3-chome are low-rise residential areas that Toshima City's landscape plan aims to preserve. Senkawa Shinsui Park in Kanamecho 3-chome is also known as "the Water and Cherry Blossoms Park".
Public transit ranks 222nd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, which is the relatively best score among this neighborhood's categories, but still on the low side. The station called Senkawa is actually in Kanamecho 3-chome, on a plateau. Senkawa Station is served by the Yurakucho Line and the Fukutoshin Line; the Fukutoshin Line's Express and Commuter Express trains do not stop at this station.
Taking the Fukutoshin Line from Senkawa Station toward Shibuya gets you to Shibuya with no transfer. On weekday mornings during rush hour, two trains bound for Shibuya originate from Senkawa Station. Around the station are the City's western citizens' office and the Chihaya Library.
Healthcare ranks 179th, in the middle of the pack. Judging from our street photos, sidewalks rank 259th, toward the lower-middle.
This area was largely built up within a decade starting in 1955, and most of what's been added since has been apartments and small-scale developments. There's no station within Chihaya itself; for residents of Chihaya 2-chome and 4-chome, the nearest stations are Senkawa Station or Kanamecho Station in Kanamecho.
From the Edo period through the Meiji era, this was a farming village on the outskirts of Edo, growing rice, grains, and vegetables. After the Great Kanto Earthquake, the farmland began turning into streets, and a large-scale land readjustment was carried out in the early Showa era.
Toshima City was established in 1932, and the area through which the waterway flowed was named Senkawa-cho; that same year, the painter Kumagai Morikazu moved to Chihaya, where he would live for 45 years. Senkawa Station opened in 1983, though the waterway itself had already stopped carrying water back in the early 1970s.
Between Chihaya 4-chome and Kanamecho 3-chome, a roughly 460-meter stretch of Hojo No. 26 is planned to be widened into a 20-meter-wide road. About 95% of the land needed has already been acquired, and work on the road itself is scheduled next; the project runs through March 2031.
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