Cabbages still grow in Nerima — not as a curiosity, but as a fact of the ward's agricultural identity, visible in the produce sections of local supermarkets and in the wagashi shops selling Nerima daikon mochi and manju alongside everyday groceries. The daikon itself, long and pale, gave rise to one of Tokyo's most enduring pickled traditions: the takuan漬け that once defined the flavor of this corner of the Musashino plateau.
Stone Shrine Road, the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, the quiet residential blocks between Shakujii-koen and Oizumigakuen stations — Nerima moves at a pace that the 23-ku map rarely suggests. At Shakujii Park, the spring-fed Sanpoike pond sits still enough to reflect the surrounding woodland, a remnant of the Musashino water table that once fed the whole district. The park's natural monument status keeps the marsh flora undisturbed, and on a weekday morning the paths carry dog-walkers and elderly neighbors rather than tour groups.
The Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo — the world's first picture-book museum — occupies a quiet residential corner near Shimo-Shakujii, its galleries showing Iwasaki Chihiro's watercolor children alongside original illustrations from picture books across many countries. A few kilometers away, animation studios have operated in this ward since the earliest days of Japanese television anime, and that lineage continues in the cluster of production companies still based around Oizumigakuen. Nerima holds these two things without drama: cabbages and cels, a shrine with a seven-hundred-year-old zelkova, and a neighborhood museum where the art is made for children.
Where to stay
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What converges here
4 in this ward. 280 within 25 km of the ward office.
- Kōyama Garden
- Chihiro Art Museum Tokyo
- Nerima Shakujiikoen Furusato Museum
- Toei Animation Museum
- Nakano Historical Museum
See the nearest 25
- Tetsugaku-dō Park
- Toshima City Tokiwasō Manga Museum
- Kumagai Morikazu Museum of Art
- Itabashi Science and Education Hall
- いたばしボローニャ絵本館
- Ōtaguro Park
- Kadokawa Garden
- Suginami Animation Museum
- Museum of Toshima City
- Museum of Haiku Literature
- Philatelic Museum
- Itabashi Art Museum
- Suginami Historical Museum
- Kasumi Kaikan Memorial Gakushūin Museum
- Itabashi Historical Museum
- Umemura Adventure Museum
- Yakushi-no-izumi Garden
- Memorial Museum for Soldiers, Detainees in Siberia, and Postwar Repatriates
- Sompo Museum of Art
- Koryo Museum
- Ancient Orient Museum
- Kansen-en Park
- Zoshigaya Missionary Museum
- Samurai Museum
- Women's Active Museum on War and Peace
Distances are straight-line from the municipal office. Each website was checked in September 2026. Some locations © OpenStreetMap contributors.
- Sanpoji Pond Marsh Plant Community
- Giant Keyaki of Nerima Hakusan Shrine
- Kotake-Mukaihara
- Nerima
- Oizumi-Gakuen
- Shakujii-Koen
- Nerima
- Hikarigaoka
- Toshimaen
- Toshimaen
- Kotake-Mukaihara
- Kotake-Mukaihara
- Nerima
- Nerima
- Heiwadai
- Kami-Shakujii
- Chikatetsu-Akatsuka
- Nakamurashi
- Hikawadai
- Ekoda
- Musashi-Seki
- Shin-Egota
- Fujimidai
- Nerima-Takanodai
- Nerima-Kasugacho
- Sakuradai
- Shin-Sakuradai