Evacuation sites, shelters, hazard maps, free bousai items and emergency numbers for Bunkyo City, Tokyo. Names and addresses are shown in Japanese, exactly as on official signs and maps.
What 文京区 offers residents to make homes safer in a quake. Official pages are in Japanese; we summarise and translate. Rules change: check the page before applying.
Covers buying and installing furniture-anchor devices, up to ¥25,000 (raised from 2024).
Who: people living in Bunkyo. Once per dwelling in the ward; not available if you received a furniture-anchor subsidy before.
A ward partner company (Bunkyo Silver Human Resources Center or テントセント株式会社) surveys your home, supplies and installs the devices. You cannot claim for devices you bought or installed yourself.
Apply by sending the form to your chosen partner by mail or fax, or online. If the cost goes over ¥25,000 you pay the difference.
How Tokyo rates each neighbourhood (町丁目) of 文京区 for building collapse and fire spread in a big earthquake. Ranks are relative across Tokyo’s 5,192 surveyed areas: rank 5 is the highest risk, rank 1 the lowest.
Overall risk ranks in Bunkyo総合危険度ランク · 68 areas
Rank 50
Rank 44
Rank 320
Rank 223
Rank 121
TMG: “building collapse risk” measures how likely buildings are to collapse or tilt from shaking, based on ground and building type; “fire risk” measures the danger of fire spreading over a wide area; the overall rank combines both with how hard rescue and evacuation would be (災害時活動困難係数).
Highest-risk areasランク4・5の町丁目
Area (町丁目)
Overall
Collapse
Fire
Position /5,192
千駄木５丁目
4
3
4
213
大塚６丁目
4
3
4
232
根津２丁目
4
4
4
287
千駄木２丁目
4
3
3
298
Showing the 4 areas with the highest overall risk in 文京区 (rank 4–5 only, highest first). Full list: TMG list for 文京区.
7 designated emergency evacuation sites (7 designated for earthquakes) and 58 designated shelters in the national open data. Saved on your device after your first visit, so it works offline.
Read before using this list (GSI’s own notes, translated):
This data is what each municipality registered about the evacuation sites and shelters designated by the mayor under the Disaster Countermeasures Basic Act (Art. 49-4 and 49-7). It may not be the latest, or some facilities may not be listed, so always confirm the latest details with the ward.
Understand the difference between a “designated emergency evacuation site” and a “designated evacuation shelter”, and that evacuation sites are designated per type of disaster.
The data is updated from time to time.
Designated emergency evacuation site (指定緊急避難場所): “a place to evacuate to urgently to protect your life from the danger of a disaster. Designated for each type of disaster, such as landslides, floods, tsunami and earthquakes.” Designated evacuation shelter (指定避難所): “a facility where disaster victims who have evacuated stay for a certain period after a disaster.”
Spotted an error or something out of date? Email [email protected] with the page and the official source. Corrections help keep the ward pages accurate.