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13119 ／いたばしく

Itabashi Ward

The road widened, but the mound stayed.

Shimura Ichirizuka, Nakasendo

Photo by Missmikage (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Folk performance

A drum stands for a paddy,and a year of rice-growing is acted out.

Folk performance in Itabashi Ward — Photo by 柏木村民 (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Tokumaru Kitano Shrine holds its Taasobi on 11 February and Akatsuka Suwa Shrine on 13 February, in the evening. According to the Agency for Cultural Affairs, a drum in the shrine's front court stands for a rice paddy, and the farm work from seedbed to harvest is mimed with chanted words and gestures to pray in advance for a good crop. The two are designated together as Itabashi no Taasobi, a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property.

Tokumaru Kitano Shrine, 11 Feb
Akatsuka Suwa Shrine, 13 Feb
National Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property, 1976

02 ／ Paleolithic

Obsidian tools turned upin the red earth of a road cutting.

In March 1951 a junior-high-school student found obsidian tools and a cluster of stones in the Kanto loam layer exposed in the cutting of a road in Komone. A dig that July confirmed traces of the Paleolithic period. The knife-shaped tool found there was named the Moro-type knife-shaped tool. The Moro Site is a Tokyo Metropolitan historic site.

Found March 1951
Dug in July 1951
Tokyo Metropolitan historic site

03 ／ Townhouse

A ridge tablet found in a surveydated a rice shop on the old highway.

Itago Kometen, in Nakajuku, is a ward-registered tangible cultural property (building). A survey found its ridge-beam tablet, which showed that the owner built it in 1914 (Taisho 3), and gave the master carpenter's name. An earthen-walled townhouse in the line of those facing the Nakasendo, it has brick sleeve walls (sode-udatsu) that add Western touches to a Japanese-style building.

Built 1914 (Taisho 3)
Earthen-walled, with brick sleeve walls
Ward-registered, 2020

Itabashi Ward from the sky

Now and 1974–78. Tap a photo to zoom in.

Now1974–78

Wide (about 6 km across)

Close (about 1.5 km across)

Now (shot June–November 2019)Shot 1974–78

Source: Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) GSI Tiles（全国最新写真（シームレス）／国土画像情報（第一期：1974〜1978年撮影））

Open in GSI Maps (now)Open in GSI Maps (1974–78)

Living here

The ward office is a one-minute walk from the Mita Line.

about 580,000 people

The ward says Itabashi City Hall is a one-minute walk from Exit A3 of Itabashi-kuyakushomae Station on the Toei Mita Line, and a 10-minute walk from Oyama Station on the Tobu Tojo Line. From Ikebukuro Station, buses on the Ike 21 and Ike 20 routes run to the Itabashi Kuyakusho stop with no change.

People living here: 584,483people
Area: 32.22km²
Households: 314,446households
Rent (average for rentals): 74,657yen
Healthcare: 41 hospitals ／ 399 clinics

Area and habitable land at the same scalee-Stat B1101 / B1103

Children waiting for childcare: —109 nurseries and similar
Home purchase subsidy: —
Average annual temperature: —

These 3 items are waiting on a nationwide data source. We do not fill them with estimates.

Shape

Surrounded by 5 municipalities, and almost entirely flat.

Itabashi Ward in Japan35.751°N 139.709°E

Territory of Itabashi Ward

Boundaries: National Land Numerical Information (Administrative Area Data), MLIT. Processed by Machigatari.

North to south

7.2km

Tokyo: Nerima Ward, Kita Ward, Toshima Ward
Saitama Prefecture: Toda City, Wako City

Travel times per leg are not published by the municipality, so they are not shown.

Itabashi Ward isthis kind of town.

01Shimura Ichirizuka is the third milepost mound on the Nakasendo counted from Nihonbashi in Edo. A national historic site, it was not moved or cut into when the Nakasendo was widened in 1933, the ward writes
02Itabashi no Taasobi is a national Important Intangible Folk Cultural Property and the Moro Site a Tokyo Metropolitan historic site. The ward also holds the Inaridai Site finds from the early Jomon period (Tokyo-designated) and Fudo no Taki, a former purification spot (a ward-registered historic site)
03The bridge named Itabashi, where the old Nakasendo crosses the Shakujii River, is said to be the origin of the ward's name. The ward calls itself one of Tokyo's leading industrial clusters

See the town as it is now.

Source: Wikidata (P2002, P2003, P2013, P2397)

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Itabashi Ward official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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