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13122 ／かつしかく

Katsushika Ward

A thatched storehouse on school grounds.

Gogura, Horikiri School grounds

Photo by Higa4 (CC0)

01 ／ Handcar railway

Usually 4 pushers; on Koshin days,about 120 extra were hired.

People pushed the cars along about 1.5 km between Kanamachi Station and Shibamata Taishakuten. It opened on December 17, 1899, as the fifth handcar railway in Japan. The line was double-tracked, with 4 pushers on ordinary days and about 120 extra hired every 60 days on Koshin days. The photo shows a replica.

Opened December 17, 1899
About 1.5 km, Kanamachi to Shibamata Taishakuten
About 120 extra pushers on Koshin days

02 ／ Lock gate bridge

On the 5 western arches are groovesfor raising and lowering boards that stop water.

Komonbashi in Nishi-Mizumoto was completed in 1909. Built with the latest technology of its day to prevent floods of the Furu-Tone and Oba rivers, it regulated water volume with a sluice. Its brick was made in Kanamachi. The west side has 5 arches and the east side 3. The top is a footpath. It is a Ward Registered Tangible Cultural Property.

Completed in 1909
5 arches on the west side, 3 on the east
Katsushika Ward Registered Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Tateishi-sama

The stone that gave Tateishi its namewas carried from the Boso Peninsula.

This stone stands in a children's park in Tateishi 8-chome and is the source of the place name. It is Bosho stone from around Mt. Nokogiri in Chiba, and may have been used in the stone chamber of a tumulus. Once about 60 cm tall in the Ansei era, it is described in the Tokyo Metropolitan description as about 4 cm after being chipped away. It is a Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site.

Bosho stone from around Mt. Nokogiri, Chiba
About 60 cm in the Ansei era; about 4 cm per the Metropolitan description
Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site

Katsushika 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

Tokyo in 12 minutes at best on the JR Sobu Line (Rapid).

about 450,000 people
30 min to a city centre

Rapid trains of the JR Sobu Line stop at Shin-Koiwa Station. The fastest daily train takes 12 minutes from Tokyo, and daytime rapids take about 13 minutes (October 2026 timetable). Ward Office is about a 7-minute walk from Keisei Tateishi Station.

People living here: 453,093people
Area: 34.8km²
Households: 215,948households
Rent (average for rentals): 69,004yen
Healthcare: 22 hospitals ／ 368 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —94 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.

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Where you can go from here.

Katsushika Ward in Japan35.743°N 139.847°E

to TokyoJR Sobu Line (Rapid)12min

Travel times follow JR東日本駅の時刻表（2610版・2026年10月ダイヤ）の東京駅（駅コード1039）の下り『市川・千葉方面』の平日（1039080）と土曜・休日（1039081）。千葉の取り込みで本体が作った $SP/check88/jr/trains-1039.json（東京駅の下りの列車ページを全部引いたもの）から、東京の発→新小岩の発（総武快速は新小岩に停まる）を列車ごとに数えた (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 6 municipalities across 2 prefectures.

Territory of Katsushika Ward

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

North to south

9.6km

Tokyo: Adachi Ward, Edogawa Ward, Sumida Ward
Saitama Prefecture: Misato City, Yashio City
Chiba Prefecture: Matsudo City

Katsushika Ward isthis kind of town.

01The gogura in the grounds of Horikiri Elementary School was built to store each village's tribute rice temporarily in the Edo period, and is presumed to date from the late Edo period. It is a Katsushika Ward designated tangible cultural property. A viewing event for its first thatch replacement in 14 years was held on January 13, 2025
02The Taishaku Handcar Railway, a railway pushed by people, linked Kanamachi Station and Shibamata Taishakuten over about 1.5 km and opened in 1899. Komonbashi was built in 1909 with Kanamachi brick, and its 5 western arches have grooves for raising and lowering boards that stop water
03Tateishi is the stone behind a place name. It is Bosho stone from around Mt. Nokogiri in Chiba, a Tokyo Metropolitan Historic Site said by one theory to have served as a marker on the ancient Tokaido in the Heian period

See the town as it is now.

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

If something caught your eye, ask the town itself.

Katsushika Ward official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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