Ge. Shinjuku Chuushin! Kaiteki Na Koukyuu Kan Ichikenka/minpaku

Everything else you do in a day starts here.

• Okubo 大久保4 min · 349 m
• Shin-Ōkubo 新大久保6 min · 505 m

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

• Okubo Station 大久保駅2 min · 141 m
• Hyakuninchou Koumuin Shukusha 百人町公務員宿舎2 min · 164 m

Matters once you are staying more than a few nights.

• My Basket まいばすけっと1 min · 61 m
• Olympic オリンピック4 min · 308 m

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

• FamilyMart ファミリーマート2 min · 179 m
• Lawson ローソン2 min · 197 m

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

• Koko Karafu Inn Ookubo Station Mae Branch ココカラファイン 大久保駅前店1 min · 36 m
• Hijikata Pharmacy ヒジカタ薬局2 min · 194 m

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.

• Aeon Bank イオン銀行1 min · 71 m
• Seven Bank セブン銀行3 min · 201 m

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

• Koi Nobori 鯉登り1 min · 49 m
• Ryou Menkan 料麺館1 min · 116 m
• Domino/piza ドミノ・ピザ1 min · 119 m

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

• Caffe.No.Name 1 min · 49 m
• Kissashitsu Runoaaru Ookubo Branch 喫茶室ルノアール 大久保店2 min · 195 m

Somewhere to walk that is not a shopping street.

• Kita San Momiji Park 北三もみじ公園1 min · 57 m
• Park 3 min · 268 m

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.

• Kodaki Hashi Ni Matsuwaru Mukashibanashi 小滝橋にまつわる昔話9 min · 681 m
• Shokkou Saka 蜀江坂9 min · 681 m
• Tenjin Yu (ten Jin'yu) 天神湯 ( てんじんゆ )9 min · 705 m

Often the reason for the trip rather than a convenience.

• Kashiwa Yu 柏湯5 min · 398 m

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.

• 신오쿠보플떡랜드 8 min · 631 m

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

• Kabushiki Kaisha Touka 株式会社 桐花1 min · 84 m
• Colorful! 2 min · 143 m

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

• Police box 4 min · 336 m
• Koban 新宿警察署淀橋市場前交番4 min · 338 m