A station 33.8 metres underground opens onto a streetcar stop, and a shopping street leads to Kishimojin
Zoshigaya Station's platform is 33.8 metres underground, making it the fifth-deepest station on Tokyo Metro. But when you come back up to ground level from Exit 1, right in front of you is the Kishibojimmae stop on the Toden Arakawa Line streetcar. To get to Kishimojin Hall (Kishimojin-do), the fastest way is to go through the shopping street on Kishimojin-dori from this exit.
The main hall of Kishimojin Hall was donated in 1664 by the principal wife of Asano Mitsuakira, the lord of Hiroshima Domain, and was designated an Important Cultural Property of Japan in 2016. Walking east to Zoshigaya 1-chome, there's a house built in 1907 as the residence of an American missionary, now called the Zoshigaya Former Missionary House. It's the oldest surviving modern Western-style wooden building in Toshima City, and admission is free. Near Kishimojin Hall, in Zoshigaya 3-chome, there's also the apartment where Tezuka Osamu lived for about three years after leaving Tokiwa-so. From our street photos, greenery ranks 48th out of Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods, in the upper range. With the Fukutoshin Line and the Toden streetcar, public transit ranks 86th, in the upper-middle range.
Zoshigaya Cemetery and Toden-Zoshigaya Station are actually both located in neighboring Minami-Ikebukuro, not in this neighborhood. Medical care ranks 168th out of Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods, in the lower range. To the south, Takada is sandwiched between the lowland along the Kanda River and the Mejiro-dai plateau, with many slopes, one of which is a steep slope famous across Tokyo. From our street photos, buildings rank 160th, also in the lower range.
According to legend, in 1561, Yamamura Tan'emon dug up a statue of Kishimojin from a well in what is now the Mejiro-dai area; it wasn't until 1578 that a thatched hall was built on the current site. During the Edo period, Mejiro-dai, at the southern end of this neighborhood, was mostly occupied by the residences of daimyo (feudal lords). The ground there is firm, so the area escaped damage in the Great Kanto Earthquake and the war, and the narrow alleys have survived to this day. In 1966, with the implementation of the new address system, Zoshigaya's town area was divided among Mejiro-dai, Minami-Ikebukuro, and other towns, which is why the cemetery is no longer in Zoshigaya.
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.
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Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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