Tokyo · Updated: 2026-08-05
Around Numabe Station there are 4 walking spots, ranging from a risograph studio where you can make your own zine to a temple and two children's parks. The setting is Denenchofu-Honcho in Ota Ward, a quiet residential neighborhood rather than a tourist district, so this is a walk through everyday streets. All 4 spots list Numabe as their nearest station, which makes them easy to string together into a single route.
This guide covers 4 walking spots; 4 of them are an average 4-minute walk from the nearest station (2–7 min).
Counted from zorozoro listings when this page was generated. Walking minutes are estimates: straight-line distance to the nearest station × 1.3, at 80 m per minute.
A good order is Hand Saw Press → Yukeizan Tokoin Temple → Higashihisa Children's Park → Sankyu Children's Park: start with making something, pause at the temple, then wind down at two neighborhood parks. Hand Saw Press requires an advance email reservation, so this order lets you build the day around your booked time slot.
Hand Saw Press is a studio in a residential neighborhood where you can make zines with a risograph. It has a printing press, a paper cutter, a binding machine and a collator, so you can take a booklet all the way from print to finished copy. Use requires an advance reservation by email, so get in touch as soon as your walk is on the calendar. The address is 17-3 Denenchofu-Honcho, Ota Ward.
Yukeizan Tokoin Temple is a temple whose nearest station is Numabe. It belongs in the middle of the walk, as the switch from the hum of a print studio to the stillness of temple grounds. Sitting inside a residential area, it reads less like a sightseeing destination and more like the kind of corner that quietly slows your pace.
Higashihisa Children's Park is one of two children's parks near Numabe Station. It is the right size for spreading out whatever you've bought or made and taking a break, giving the residential walk a natural punctuation mark. If you're with kids, plan the route assuming you'll stop here for a while.
Sankyu Children's Park is the children's park that closes out the route. Paired with Higashihisa Children's Park, it makes this a walk that takes in two parks in one loop. If you printed a zine at Hand Saw Press earlier in the day, this is a fine place to sit and page through the fresh copy.
Of the 4 spots, only Hand Saw Press needs planning ahead. Lock in that email reservation and the rest — one temple and two parks — can be connected however the mood takes you. This isn't a dense downtown crawl but a walk through a lived-in neighborhood, so give yourself extra time between stops.