Sugamo
{{nihongo|Sugamo|巣鴨}} is a neighborhood in Toshima, Tokyo, Japan. It is home to {{nihongo|Jizō-dōri|地蔵通り}}, a shopping street popular among the older generation, earning it the nickname "Granny's Harajuku."{{cite web |last1=Nagamura |first1=Kit |title=Warming to Sugamo's venerable shopping street |url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2017/12/08/travel/warming-sugamos-venerable-shopping-street/ |accessdate=22 April 2020 |website=The Japan Times |date=8 December 2017}}{{cite web |last1=Saarinen |first1=Ili |title=Why is Sugamo known as 'Harajuku for grannies'? |url=https://www.timeout.com/tokyo/things-to-do/why-is-sugamo-known-as-harajuku-for-grannies |website=Time Out |accessdate=22 April 2020 |date=31 March 2017}} It lies at the crossing point of the JR Yamanote Line and National Route 17.
Available public transportation to Sugamo are JR Yamanote Line and Toei Mita Line.{{Cite web |title=keywords |url=https://www.kotsu.metro.tokyo.jp/subway/stations/sugamo.html |access-date=2022-06-07 |website=東京都交通局 |language=ja}} There is also Koshinzuka station of Toden Arakawa Line in the middle of {{nihongo|Jizō-dōri|地蔵通り}} shopping street.
Tokugawa Yoshinobu, who is the last shogun of the Tokugawa Shogunate set his residence here in 1897.{{Cite web |title=徳川慶喜巣鴨屋敷跡 |url=https://www.yoritomo-japan.com/etc/seien/yosinobu-yasiki.html |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=www.yoritomo-japan.com}}{{Cite web |title=＜豊島区＞最後の将軍「徳川慶喜」が住んだ街：巣鴨｜街紹介｜オークラヤコラム｜マンション売却・購入・住みかえ・賃貸ならオークラヤ住宅 |url=https://www.ohkuraya.co.jp/blog/article/3071 |access-date=2022-06-10 |website=マンション売却・購入・住みかえ・賃貸ならオークラヤ住宅 |language=ja}} He has lived for 4 years there and moved away to avoid the noise coming from Yamanote Line.
Education
Public elementary and junior high schools are operated by the Toshima Ward Board of Education.
Sugamo is served by the attendance zones of multiple elementary schools:{{cite web|url=https://www.city.toshima.lg.jp/353/kosodate/gakko/sho-chu/tennyugaku/documents/tuugakukuiki.pdf|title=豊島区立小・中学校通学区域|publisher=Toshima Ward|accessdate=2022-10-08}}
- Gyoko Elementary School (仰高小学校) - 2-chome, most of 1-chome and 3-chome
- Sugamo Elementary School (巣鴨小学校) - 1-chome 34-49-ban
- Seiwa Elementary School (清和小学校) - 3-chome 5-18 ban, 4-chome 1-26 and 33-ban and most of 28, 29, and 32-ban
- Asahi Elementary School (朝日小学校) - 5-chome, and 4-chome 27, 30-31, and 34-44-ban, and parts of 28, 29, and 32-ban
See also
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