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Itabashi, Tokyo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Itabashi is a special ward of Tokyo, called Itabashi City in English, holding an art museum, an old roadside milepost and excavated ground.
About Itabashi
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Shimura anchors one end. Rooms near the Milepost at Shimura sit on old road ground, while the Inaridai Site and the Moro Heritage Site keep archaeology inside the ward rather than a train ride away. The museums draw you inward instead.
A stay near the Itabashi Art Museum puts the Tokyo Kasei University Museum and 駄菓子屋ゲーム博物館 within the same errand, which is the argument for the middle of Itabashi City over its edges.
About Itabashi
What are the main landmarks in Itabashi?
Itabashi collects the unshowy kind. The Itabashi Art Museum carries the ward's name and its main collection, the Tokyo Kasei University Museum adds a campus holding, and 駄菓子屋ゲーム博物館 makes a museum of the penny-sweet-shop game trade. Two dug sites survive.
The Inaridai Site and the Moro Heritage Site hold excavated ground, and the Milepost at Shimura marks a stage of the old road through the ward.
What is the history of Itabashi?
Itabashi City took shape in 1943. The old road through Shimura left its milepost behind, and the Inaridai Site and the Moro Heritage Site show that people worked this ground long before any ward boundary was drawn across it. Its ties run far.
Sister-city agreements link Itabashi to Burlington in Ontario, Canada, to the Shijingshan District of Beijing and to Bologna in Italy, three partners on three continents.
Where is Itabashi?
The ward covers a broad spread of Tokyo, taking in Shimura and the ground of the Inaridai Site along with the blocks around the Itabashi Art Museum.
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Updated September 2026