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Katsushika, Tokyo — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Katsushika is an eastern ward of Tokyo holding the Katsushika City Museum and the Kochikame Museum.
About Katsushika
Where to stay in Katsushika
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Katsushika suits travellers who want a settled residential base in Japan rather than the towers of central Tokyo. The ward stays low. The museum quarter around the Katsushika City Museum puts local history and a small planetarium within an easy walk, while the streets near the Kochikame Museum draw manga readers to a neighbourhood the comic made famous across Tokyo.
If you would rather sleep in a plain, lived-in corner of the city and reach the centre by train, Katsushika trades the crowds for room and calm.
About Katsushika
What are the main landmarks in Katsushika?
Two museums anchor what Katsushika keeps. The Katsushika City Museum sets out the ward's growth from riverside farmland into a working part of Tokyo, and pairs its local-history rooms with a small planetarium. Displays stay grounded.
The Kochikame Museum, by contrast, celebrates the comic that carried the district's name to readers across Japan, filling its rooms with figures and scenes drawn from the long-running series.
What is the history of Katsushika?
Katsushika took its present form as a ward of Tokyo in 1943, when older riverside towns and villages on the low eastern edge of the city were drawn together. The ground here had long been farmland and scattered settlements before Tokyo spread out to meet it. Change came slowly.
The Katsushika City Museum keeps that record of fields turning into streets, while the Kochikame Museum marks the later decades in which a comic set in these lanes made the district known well beyond Japan.
Where is Katsushika?
Katsushika is a low, river-crossed ward on the eastern edge of Tokyo, its flat ground once given over to farmland and now filled with quiet residential streets that reach out from the museum quarter around the Katsushika City Museum.
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Updated July 2026