Komae, Residential city in western Tokyo, Japan
Komae is a residential city in western Tokyo, Japan, stretching between two rivers. The built-up area consists mostly of low-rise houses with gardens, crossed by cycling paths and pedestrian zones along the riverbanks.
The area has been inhabited since the Kofun period, as ancient burial mounds from the 5th century show. Official city status came in 1970 after villages gradually turned into suburbs.
The name comes from an Edo-period village once shaped by rice paddies and riverside life. Today you see traces of this past in narrow lanes between houses and small shrines that neighbors maintain together.
Trains on the Odakyu Line stop at Komae Station and provide direct links to central Tokyo. Riverbanks and parks are easy to explore on foot or by bicycle, and many paths are flat and accessible.
Two dome-shaped Kofun burial mounds from the 5th century still stand among modern houses today. They are among the few well-kept witnesses of this early burial form in such a densely built area.
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