Evacuation sites, shelters, hazard maps, free bousai items and emergency numbers for Taito City, Tokyo. Names and addresses are shown in Japanese, exactly as on official signs and maps.
What 台東区 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.
15 free portable toilets for every household携帯トイレの全世帯への配布（令和8年度）
Taito delivers 15 portable toilets free to every household, with a leaflet and instructions; the bag includes instructions in foreign languages.
Who: heads of households registered in Taito as of 13 Aug 2026. No application needed; delivery starts in order from October 2026 to your registered address.
If you miss the delivery, a notice is left; call the number on it. Questions about delivery: call centre 0120-260-722 (9:00–20:00).
The ward suggests stocking at least 3 days (15 uses) per person, ideally 1 week (35 uses).
How Tokyo rates each neighbourhood (町丁目) of 台東区 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 Taito総合危険度ランク · 108 areas
Rank 51
Rank 46
Rank 337
Rank 253
Rank 111
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
根岸４丁目
5
4
5
84
谷中３丁目
4
4
4
119
日本堤１丁目
4
5
5
161
橋場２丁目
4
5
4
257
日本堤２丁目
4
5
5
260
鳥越１丁目
4
5
4
285
台東３丁目
4
5
4
359
Showing the 7 areas with the highest overall risk in 台東区 (rank 4–5 only, highest first). Full list: TMG list for 台東区.
17 designated emergency evacuation sites (0 designated for earthquakes) and 55 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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