Kichijōji facts for kids
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Kichijōji is a neighborhood in the city of Musashino in Tokyo, Japan. It is centered on a compact but very popular commercial area to the north of its train station and to the south a little.
It has artistic and fashionable shops and restaurants, bars and coffee houses, from discount to high end. Kichijōji Station is served by the Chūō Line which runs to Tokyo central station in just in 30 minutes, Sobu Line, Tozai Line and is also a terminus of the Keiō Inokashira Line, which takes passengers as far as Shibuya, another fashionable shopping center in Tokyo.
The neighborhood is dominated by a shopping district centered on a covered street, Sun Road, which extends north from Kichijōji Station. This well organized and clean area includes amenities, shops, entertainment and restaurants.
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Halfway up this shopping street is the Buddhist temple Gessō-ji with a graveyard, and at the northern end of it are Shinto shrines, the latter holding the occasional festival, with amusements such as fishing for gold fish, sweet food stalls, and typical dishes.
The anime and manga companies Coamix and Bee Train have their headquarters in Kichijōji. Studio Ghibli was previously located in Kichijōji.
The area is one of the most popular areas for younger people to spend their weekends, because it features one of Tokyo's most varied and complete shopping areas, as well as the almost constantly crowded Inokashira Park and its zoo. Evidence of its popularity is that it's been voted the number 1 place that people in Japan wish they would live, every year since the 1990s according to polls by the magazine CNN GO.
Images for kids
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Sun Road
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Kichijōji Station (in back). A pink Moo-bus, a Musashino city bus, waits for passengers.
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The Temple in Inokashira park
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Entrance to Inokashira Park
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Cherry blossoms in Inokashira park
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White Temple Gates in a busy shopping town at the opposite side of Kichijoji station to Inokashira Park
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Kichijoji's gold and platinum plated Mikoshi
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Cherry blossoms during Hanami
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Big band giving a concert just outside a department store in the middle of the shopping district Kichijoji
