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Kichijoji keeps topping the lists of places Tokyo residents want to live, but rankings are not what this quiz measures. It looks instead at the town's underlying structure: Inokashira Park and the separate nature-and-culture park beside it, the contrast between Sun Road's straight arcade and the tangled lanes of Harmonica Yokocho, and a place name carried here by townspeople who moved out to Musashino after a great fire in Edo, rather than borrowed from any local temple. Seikei Gakuen and the Kichijoji Art Museum add a quieter layer of learning and art, and the Inokashira Line gives the station a set of questions of its own. Today's challenge question is a fair preview before you commit to a rank.
Roughly how many tennis courts does Inokashira Park have, in familiar terms?
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Take on this quizCorrect answerMusashino City
Kichijoji is not an independent municipality; it is a district within Musashino City, Tokyo, and Kichijoji Station's official address likewise falls under Musashino's Kichijoji Minamicho. Administratively it is distinct from neighboring Mitaka and Suginami, even though the name Kichijoji is widely used, on its own, as if it were a town in its own right.
Correct answerFalse
The SUUMO Most Desirable Towns ranking surveys 10,000 people aged 20 to 49 living in the Greater Tokyo area about which town or station they would most like to live in, and Kichijoji is a perennial fixture near the top. In the 2025 edition, it placed third, behind Yokohama, which took first place for an eighth consecutive year. Because many people assume Kichijoji always tops the list, it is worth remembering the actual ranking rather than the reputation.
Source:SUUMO Most Desirable Towns Ranking 2025, Greater Tokyo Edition
Correct answera boating area
Inokashira Pond has a boating area where visitors can rent swan boats or rowboats and spend time out on the water. Being able to get onto the pond itself, rather than simply walking around it, is often highlighted as one of the distinctive pleasures of a park located this close to central Tokyo.
Source:Facilities | Inokashira Park
Correct answerOne Hundred Famous Views of Edo
Inokashira Pond appears in one print of Utagawa Hiroshige's late-career series, One Hundred Famous Views of Edo. That an artist chose to depict a pond on the outskirts of the city suggests it was already recognized as a scenic spot worth painting, even in Hiroshige's own time.
Source:About Inokashira Park
Correct answerEdogawa
According to Tokyo's river management records, before the River Act was revised, the stretch of the Kanda River from Otaki Bridge to Funakawara Bridge was called the Edogawa. Because "Edogawa" today usually refers to an entirely different river flowing through eastern Tokyo, this earlier name is a historical detail that is easy to confuse without knowing how the naming changed.
Source:River Management by Tokyo's Third Construction Office
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