Office streets below Zojoji's Daimon gate, where the shrine festival runs for eleven days
Shiba Daijingu's festival runs from the 11th to the 21st of September. Because it drags on so long, it's had a nickname since old times meaning "the dragging-on festival"; during the festival the shrine hands out ginger, so it's also called the "Ginger Festival". Near the shrine is Daimon, the old main gate of Zojoji, and both the town name and the subway station name come from it. On weekdays, this area has far more people during the day than at night: in 2020, daytime population was 84,497 people, while nighttime was only 14,273, about 5.9 times as many by day. Hamamatsucho 1-chome and 2-chome are mostly commercial and office areas surrounding Hamamatsucho Station and Daimon Station, with housing squeezed between the buildings.
For getting around there's Daimon Station, where the Toei Asakusa Line and the Oedo Line meet; the station's secondary name is Hamamatsucho. So public transit ranks 11th among Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods. Convenience of daily life ranks 10th, and healthcare ranks 21st, both in the top tier of the 219 neighborhoods.
About half the residents live in Shiba 2-chome and Shiba 3-chome, with each chome having about 3,600 people at night. Very few people live in the chome around the stations: Hamamatsucho 2-chome has 11,355 people during the day, but only 238 at night; Shiba-Daimon 1-chome has 9,143 during the day and 600 at night. Shibakoen 3-chome and 4-chome, where Zojoji and Tokyo Tower are located, are not in the neighborhood, and JR Hamamatsucho Station is also outside the neighborhood, in Kaigan 1-chome. Greenery ranks 101st, landing in the middle tier of the 219 neighborhoods.
In 1598, Tokugawa Ieyasu moved Zojoji to Shiba, and Shiba Daijingu, which originally stood there, moved to its current location the same year. In 1868, Fukuzawa Yukichi named the school he had set up in Shiba-Shinzenza (now the north side of Hamamatsucho 1-chome) Keio Gijuku. In 1937, the city of Tokyo raised funds to rebuild Daimon in concrete, 5.25 metres tall. The air raid on Tokyo in May 1945 destroyed Shiba Daijingu, and its main hall was rebuilt in 1964.
The World Trade Center Building in Hamamatsucho 2-chome is being rebuilt; the South Tower opened first in 2021, and the Main Building and air terminal are scheduled to open in stages starting in 2027. The Main Building's upper floors, from the 36th to the 46th, will be Raffles Tokyo, with 130 guest rooms, scheduled to open in 2028. The free shuttle bus for this area will begin its third trial run starting October 31, 2026, with official operation scheduled for spring 2027.
Compared with the 219 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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.
67 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-12
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