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13104 ／しんじゅくく

Shinjuku Ward

Alumni drive returned a cast-iron gate.

Former Gakushuin Gate, cast iron

Photo by wiiii (CC BY-SA 3.0)

01 ／ Historic site

In the Hayashi clan's graveyard, four tombskeep the Confucian burial style.

The Hayashi Family Graveyard holds Hayashi Razan, who served the shogunate as a Neo-Confucian scholar, and his descendants. It was built in 1698 on part of land granted to Hoko, the third head. It has 81 grave markers, and the ward writes that four tombs, from the 8th head to the 11th, keep the Confucian burial style.

Oct 20, 1926: designated a National Historic Site
81 grave markers (ward)
Four tombs keep the Confucian burial style (ward)

02 ／ Edo Six Jizo

A statue raised in 1712 stands asthe third of the Edo Six Jizo.

The bronze seated Jizo at Taiso-ji was raised in 1712 (Shotoku 2) as the third of the Edo Six Jizo. Tokyo writes that at 267 cm it is the smallest of the six. It was cast by an Ota, a metal founder of Kanda, and donors' names are carved on the statue and its base.

Raised in 1712 (Shotoku 2) (Tokyo)
Statue height 267 cm (Tokyo)
Tokyo Designated Tangible Cultural Property

03 ／ Stone monument

Refused a place in Nihonbashi,the monument stands at Yotsuya Okido.

The Suido-no-Ishibumi-no-ki is a monument recording the origins of the Kanda and Tamagawa waterworks, 460 cm high and 230 cm wide. It was planned near Nihonbashi and Ichikokubashi but the police refused, so it was set at Yotsuya Okido, where a Tamagawa Aqueduct watch house stood. Tokyo writes that it was completed in 1895.

460 cm high, 230 cm wide (Tokyo)
Due for completion in 1885; finished in 1895 (Tokyo)
Tokyo Designated Tangible Cultural Property (old documents)

Shinjuku 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

13 minutes from Tokyo, 4 from Shibuya.

about 350,000 people
30 min to a city centre

To Shinjuku Station, the JR Chuo Line Rapid takes 13 minutes from Tokyo Station, and the Shonan-Shinjuku Line takes 5 from Ikebukuro Station and 4 from Shibuya Station (JR East timetable, October 2026). The ward says Shinjuku Ward Office is about a 5-minute walk from Shinjuku Station.

People living here: 349,385people
Area: 18.22km²
Households: 222,800households
Rent (average for rentals): 112,012yen
Healthcare: 13 hospitals ／ 766 clinics

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

Children waiting for childcare: —51 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.

Shinjuku Ward in Japan35.694°N 139.703°E

to TokyoJR Chuo Line (Rapid)13min

Travel times follow JR東日本駅の時刻表（timetables.jreast.co.jp の2610版・2026年10月ダイヤ）。東京駅の中央線快速下り（tt1039/103909）と新宿駅の湘南新宿ライン（tt0866/086608・086609）の各列車ページ (checked 2026-10-23). They vary by time of day.

Shape

Borders 4 municipalities.

Territory of Shinjuku Ward

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

North to south

6.2km

Nakano Ward, Shibuya Ward, Toshima Ward, Bunkyo Ward

Shinjuku Ward isthis kind of town.

01The Former Gakushuin Main Gate is a cast-iron gate built in 1877 and a National Important Cultural Property. The Agency for Cultural Affairs writes that it is said to have been made in Kawaguchi City, Saitama. The ward writes that after a fire destroyed the school building in 1886 the gate passed to another company, and that alumni campaigns brought it back to Gakushuin in 1927.
02The ward writes that the Edo Six Jizo were placed along six roads leading into Edo. Tokyo writes that the sixth statue, at Eitai-ji in Fukagawa, was torn down and five remain. The Hayashi Family Graveyard is in Ichigaya Yamabushicho.
03Yotsuya Okido was the site of a watch house on the Tamagawa Aqueduct, and the ward writes that water was carried underground in stone and wooden pipes into Edo and that the watch house adjusted water volume and quality. Shinjuku Station is 13 minutes from Tokyo on the JR Chuo Line Rapid.

See the town as it is now.

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

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Shinjuku Ward official site ↗Wikipedia ↗

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