An island ringed by the Arakawa and Sumida rivers, where kids go through elementary and junior high school without leaving it
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Shinden is at the westernmost edge of Adachi City, surrounded by the Arakawa and Sumida rivers like an island, and there's no station in the neighborhood itself. Chome 1 through 3 are all in the school district of Shinden Gakuen, an integrated elementary-and-junior-high school, so kids go from elementary school through junior high right there on the island.
Chome 1 has factories and warehouses along the Kan-nana, with only about 49 people living per hectare. Chome 2 is the old town center, where detached houses, small shops, and apartments stand side by side, and it's also where you'll find banks and medical facilities.
Chome 3 still had large factories into the 1990s; once they moved out, the site became Heart Island SHINDEN - about 20 hectares with roughly 3,000 households, completed in 2012. The development includes an integrated elementary-and-junior-high school, a nursery, parks, and commercial facilities; chome 3 has about 229 people per hectare, and nearly 60% of everyone in the neighborhood lives here.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 12th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest point for this neighborhood. Sidewalks rank 67th, also near the top.
Shinden Gakuen opened in 2010, the first integrated elementary-and-junior-high school in Adachi City. As enrollment grew, a second school building opened in 2013, 240 meters away - a 3-minute walk from the first.
There's no station in Shinden itself. Listings on real estate sites mostly cite Oji-kamiya Station, across the Sumida River and outside the neighborhood, a 10- to 21-minute walk away.
You can also take a bus: Toei buses all depart from Oji Station, while Kokusai Kogyo buses mainly depart from the east exit of Akabane Station. Public transit ranks 385th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest point for this neighborhood. Daily shopping ranks 362nd, also near the bottom.
Adachi City's flood hazard map assumes the Arakawa overflows under the largest-scale rainfall scenario; chome 1 and 2 would see maximum flooding of 5 meters or more, with water standing for two weeks or more. The residential area in chome 3, built on the super levee, shows no flooding on the map.
One theory holds that Shinden traces back to Shikahama-shinden, reclaimed land developed in the mid-Edo period. In 1889 it became an oaza of Kohoku Village, and when Adachi City was established as part of Tokyo City in 1932, it was divided into Shinden-kamimachi and Shinden-shimomachi.
The present chome 1 through 3 only took shape after land readjustment in 1960, with the residential address system implemented in 1966. After the factories in chome 3 moved out, the same site was redeveloped through a super levee project into today's residential area.
Compared with the 395 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.
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