3Q Showa

Arakawa, Tokyo · JapanHostel

75/100
Most things within a walk
Access 97Daily 65Eating 32Sights 72Nightlife 47

Somewhere you leave in the morning. Buses count as much as trains — most of what people come to Japan to see is not on a railway line.

  • Train stationMachiya · 1 min
  • Convenience store148 m
  • Places to eat194 found

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What is actually within a 10 minute walk

Straight-line distance from the building, measured against OpenStreetMap. Walking times use 80 m per minute, the convention used by Japanese property listings. Only about four in ten places in Japan have an English name in OpenStreetMap, so some names below appear in Japanese — still useful for showing to a taxi driver or matching a shopfront.

Getting around

Bus stop

16 found

Where there is no train, this is the way out. Stops on both sides of one road are counted once.

  • Machiya Station Mae 町屋駅前1 min · 113 m
  • Hana No Ki 花の木2 min · 160 m

Train station

7 found

Everything else you do in a day starts here.

  • Machiya 町屋1 min · 113 m
  • Machiya-ekimae 町屋駅前3 min · 205 m
  • Machiya-nichome 町屋二丁目3 min · 263 m
  • Arakawa-nanachome 荒川七丁目6 min · 479 m
  • Higashi-ogu-sanchome 東尾久三丁目7 min · 575 m
  • Arakawa-nichome 荒川二丁目8 min · 651 m
  • Shim-Mikawashima 新三河島9 min · 703 m

Daily needs

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Convenience store

20 found

Open late, sells water, food, and usually has an ATM that takes foreign cards.

  • 7-Eleven セブン-イレブン2 min · 148 m
  • Lawson Store 100 ローソンストア1002 min · 165 m

Pharmacy / drugstore

not in this reading15 found

Getting ill is the thing most likely to ruin a trip.

  • Ueru Shia Arakawa Machiya Branch ウエルシア荒川町屋店2 min · 144 m
  • Fuji Shiro Pharmacy フジシロ薬局2 min · 162 m

Supermarket

not in this reading12 found

Matters once you are staying more than a few nights.

  • Shinsen Shijou 新鮮市場2 min · 126 m
  • Daikokuya 大黒屋2 min · 139 m

ATMs that take foreign cards

not in this reading18 found

Seven Bank, Lawson Bank, E-net, Aeon and Japan Post accept cards issued outside Japan. Most other Japanese bank ATMs decline them, so they are not counted here. Post offices are counted, because that is where most Japan Post machines are.

  • Seven Bank セブン銀行2 min · 126 m
  • Aeon Bank イオン銀行2 min · 139 m

Eating

Places to eat

194 found

Restaurants and fast food. Cafes are not counted — most close before dinner.

  • Oouchi 大内1 min · 61 m
  • Wa No Ka Ke Ra 和 の か け ら1 min · 62 m
  • Takuan 沢庵1 min · 73 m

Cafe

not in this reading30 found

Somewhere to sit in the morning that is not your room.

  • Komeda Koohii Branch コメダ珈琲店2 min · 138 m
  • Houraiya 宝来屋2 min · 146 m

Things to see

Things to see

6 found

Attractions, museums, viewpoints, castles and monuments. Ordinary neighbourhood shrines are not counted — Japan has tens of thousands, and counting them would make every street look remarkable.

  • Sight 1 min · 108 m
  • Yoshimura Akira Memorial Museum of Literature 吉村昭記念文学館7 min · 546 m
  • Former Mikawashima Sewage Treatment Plant 旧三河島汚水処分場喞筒場施設9 min · 718 m

Public bath / onsen

3 found

Often the reason for the trip rather than a convenience.

  • Daimon Yu 大門湯8 min · 610 m
  • Ikiiki Raifu Spa いきいきらいふspa8 min · 640 m

Park or garden

39 found

Somewhere to walk that is not a shopping street.

  • Hana No Ki Jidou Yuuen 花の木児童遊園2 min · 140 m
  • Shinchi Jidou Yuuen 新地児童遊園2 min · 142 m

Souvenir shops

not scored0 found

Shown for information only. About 3,000 are mapped for the whole country against many times that in reality, so a hit here is worth something and a miss means nothing.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

None found within 800 m.

At night

material, not a verdict

Bars and nightlife

not in this reading46 found

Counted as a plus here. A property tool would count the same places as a minus.

  • Koushuuya Sakaba 甲州屋酒場1 min · 99 m
  • Nipponkai Shouya Machiya Branch 日本海庄や 町屋店2 min · 142 m

Police box (koban)

not in this reading5 found

Staffed neighbourhood police posts. The default place to go if something goes wrong.

  • Arakawa Keisatsusho Chouya Koban 荒川警察署町屋交番2 min · 195 m
  • Koban 町屋 安全・安心 ステーション4 min · 296 m

Currency exchange

not scored0 found

Shown for information only. 197 exchange counters are mapped for the whole country, far fewer than exist, so they are never scored. If you have a card, the ATM count above is the more reliable answer.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

None found within 800 m.

Post office

not in this reading4 found

Sends things home, and holds a Japan Post ATM that takes foreign cards — away from the cities this is often the only one within walking distance. Sub-post offices (簡易郵便局) frequently have no machine, so they are listed here but not counted as ATMs.

  • Arakawa Go Post Office 荒川五郵便局4 min · 357 m
  • Arakawa Machiya Post Office 荒川町屋郵便局5 min · 389 m

Coin lockers

not in this reading7 found

For the hours before check-in and after check-out.

  • Raifu Higashiogu Branch ライフ 東尾久店5 min · 431 m
  • Packcity Japan PUDOステーション9 min · 689 m

Laundromat

not scored5 found

Needed once a trip runs past a week.

Shown for information only. Our sources cover this category unevenly, so a low count here may mean the map is incomplete rather than the area is.

  • Ko Inn Randorii Kaneka コインランドリーカネカ1 min · 86 m
  • Laundromat 3 min · 214 m

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Scored 2026-10-23 05:18 UTC against our OpenStreetMap import · preset: sightseeing

Listed by OpenStreetMap, confirmed 2026-09-10.