Evacuation sites, shelters, hazard maps, free bousai items and emergency numbers for Arakawa City, Tokyo. Names and addresses are shown in Japanese, exactly as on official signs and maps.
What 荒川区 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.
Who: every household with an address in Arakawa (for the home you live in). Apply BEFORE buying or installing; one application per category.
Quake-breaker installation work: general 1/2 up to ¥60,000; special households 5/6 up to ¥100,000. Device purchase only: 1/2 up to ¥5,000 / 10/10 up to ¥10,000.
Furniture-anchor installation: 1/2 up to ¥10,000 / 10/10 up to ¥20,000. Purchase only: 1/2 up to ¥5,000 / 10/10 up to ¥10,000.
Special households: all 65+, all resident-tax-exempt, disability handbook or care level 4+, or a wooden house in the listed dense wooden areas. Period: 1 Apr 2026 – end of Feb 2027; online application since Aug 2026.
How Tokyo rates each neighbourhood (町丁目) of 荒川区 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 Arakawa総合危険度ランク · 52 areas
Rank 513
Rank 416
Rank 310
Rank 29
Rank 14
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
荒川６丁目
5
5
5
1
町屋４丁目
5
5
5
2
南千住１丁目
5
5
5
12
西尾久６丁目
5
4
5
22
南千住５丁目
5
5
5
23
荒川３丁目
5
5
5
26
町屋２丁目
5
5
5
27
西尾久５丁目
5
5
5
28
東尾久６丁目
5
5
5
41
西尾久２丁目
5
5
5
42
町屋３丁目
5
5
5
47
荒川２丁目
5
5
5
51
Showing the 12 areas with the highest overall risk in 荒川区 (rank 4–5 only, highest first). Full list: TMG list for 荒川区.
56 designated emergency evacuation sites (0 designated for earthquakes) and 85 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.”
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