Komae, Residential city in western Tokyo, Japan
Description
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.
History
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.
Culture
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.
Practical
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.
Did you know?
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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Komae Kofun Cluster
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Kitami Fureai Hiroba
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332 m
Iwado Hachiman-jinja shrine
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Nikaryo Seseragikan
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Komae City Open-Air Museum
713 m
Toshio Kashio Memorial Museum of Invention
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563 m
Syukugawara Inari
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2.3 km万葉をしのぶ乙女像
278 m
Hie-jinja Shirine
1.2 kmWork of art, sculpture
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107 m東塚古墳
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945 mWayside shrine
1 kmWayside shrine
728 mWayside shrine
1.3 km
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