Nerima


Nerima is one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, Japan. It is mainly a residential ward, located in the northwest of the Wards Area of Tokyo. In English, the ward translates "ward" as "city" and refers to itself as Nerima City, as do some of the other special wards of Tokyo. In Japanese, it still refers to itself as Nerima Ward. It is the 23rd and the newest ward in Tokyo.
Nerima Ward is nicknamed "the town of animation", because the earliest anime studios started up in the ward, like Toei Animation and Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production, making it the birthplace of anime, of the first color anime feature film The [White Snake Enchantress |The White Snake Enchantress], and of the first anime TV series Astro Boy., Nerima has the largest concentration of anime studios in Japan, followed by the neighboring Suginami Ward. Nerima has also served as the setting for several popular anime and manga series, including Doraemon, Ranma ½, Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura, Tokyo Ghoul, and Digimon Adventure.
, the ward has an estimated total population of 749,451 people. It has 399,800 households, and 21.6% of the ward's population is elderly. The total area of the ward is 48.08 km2, which gives a population density of 15,591 persons per km2.

Geography

Nerima is located within the Wards Area of Tokyo, in the north part of the West of the Palace area. Neighboring wards are Itabashi Ward, Toshima Ward, Suginami Ward, and Nakano Ward. To the west it neighbors two cities in the Tama Area of Tokyo: Musashino, and Nishitōkyō. To the north lie three cities in Saitama Prefecture: Wakō, Asaka and Niiza.
The ward is roughly rectangular, measuring 10km east to west and 4km to 7km north to south, with an area of 48.08km. It accounts for about 7.7% of the total area of the 23 wards, making it the 5th largest of the 23 wards.
To the northwest, there is a small exclave called Nishi-Ōizumimachi, enclaved within the city of Niiza in Saitama Prefecture. The ward is working to incorporate the exclave into Saitama Prefecture, but residents are opposed to the plan.

Terrain

The entire ward lies within the Musashino Plateau and features soil composed of loam formed from volcanic ash. The highest point in the 23 wards is in Nerima Ward, around Musashi-Seki Park. There are two peaks in the plateau at an altitude of about 58m in Sekimachi-Minami 4th Street and Sekimachi-Kita 4th Street.

Water Bodies

The main rivers are the Shakujii River and the Shirako River, and the difference in elevation is small. In the past, the Naka-Arai River, the Senkawa Aqueduct, and the Tagara Irrigation Canal flowed through the ward, but have dried out since. Groundwater from the Musashino Plateau surfaces as springs, creating the Sambōji Pond, Shakujii Pond, and Fujimi Pond.

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Nerima Ward has implemented an addressing system based on the Act on Residential Addresses in most areas. Based on this system, the ward comprises 46 neighborhoods, each further divided into numbered neighborhood blocks called chōme or Streets, which have local neighborhood associations called chōnaikai.
The neighborhoods are as follows, arranged by postal code and postal area:

Nerima Area

Shakujii Area

Ōizumi Area

Hikarigaoka Area

Postal Code

In Nerima Ward, the first three digits of the postal code are either 176, 177, 178, or 179, depending on the area.
  • 〒176-00XX: Nerima Post Office
  • 〒177-00XX: Shakujii Post Office
  • 〒178-00XX: Ōizumi Post Office
  • 〒179-00XX: Hikarigaoka Post Office

    Climate

During summer months, the Nerima Ward experiences intense heat, with many days exceeding 35°C and peak temperatures sometimes reaching 38°C. During winter months, it recorded a low of -7.0°C in 2018, and between January and March each year, low-pressure systems approaching from the south often bring snowfall, when the costal wards in downtown Tokyo receives only rain or sleet.
These temperature variations, combined with drainage from local rivers and irrigation canals, create ideal conditions for agriculture. Nerima has become renowned for its specialty crops, including Nerima daikon, cabbage, blueberries, and grapes.
Annual precipitation typically ranges from 1,000 to 2,000 millimeters, showing no clear long-term trends.

Parks

Museums

  • Ward art museum
  • Iwasaki Chihiro illustrated book museum
  • Tōei Animation Museum

    Amusement Parks

Toshimaen
was an amusement park in Nerima Ward. The majority of the former Toshimaen site was purchased by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government after its closure, and is planned to be developed as a large park that serves as a base for use in event of a disaster. Another part of it was used to reopen as The Making of Harry Potter - Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo.
The Making of ''Harry Potter'' - Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo
Toshimaen reopened as Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter, announced in August 2020 and opened on June 16, 2023, Warner Bros. Studio Tour Tokyo – The Making of Harry Potter is the second such park in the world, after the one in London, which opened in 2012. It is located in Nerima Ward, on part of the now-defunct Toshimaen amusement park site. Similar to its counterpart in London, the 30,000 square-meter attraction in Tokyo offers visitors a walking tour through some of the recreated famous film sets including the Great Hall, the Forbidden Forest, and the Diagon Alley. It also displays film sets, costumes, and props that were used in the Harry Potter films. In addition to Harry Potter, it also covers the Fantastic Beasts spin-offs. Steam locomotive 4920 Dumbleton Hall, which is identical to the locomotive used in the Harry Potter movies, will be an exhibit.

History

People first began living in Nerima during the Paleolithic period. Archaeological evidence that bears witness to this has been discovered throughout the ward, such as the Paleolithic spear-point stone tools excavated from the Musashi-Seki site, which are registered as cultural property of the ward.
File:Shakujii Castle.jpg|thumb|Ruins of Shakujii Castle, Kamakura/Muromachi-era seat of the Toshima clan's territory
During the Heian period, most of Nerima was part of Toshima District, which included the city of Edo, in Musashi Province. By the end of the Heian period, the Toshima clan had control of the district.
During the beginning of the Muromachi period, the Toshima clan, who had power at the mouth of the Arakawa River, expanded their territory along the Shakujii River, and eventually built Nerima Castle and Shakujii Castle. The Toshima clan continued to rule until Toshima Yasutsune, the lord of Shakujii Castle, was defeated on April 28, 1477, by Ōta Dōkan, a vassal of the Uesugi clan who built Edo Castle.
The leyend has it that when Dōkan launched his final assault on Shakujii Castle, the castle's lord Toshima Yasutsune faced inevitable defeat. Yasutsune placed a golden saddle, a treasured heirloom of the Toshima clan, on his snow-white horse and rode to the cliff behind the castle. With Dōkan's soldiers watching from below, he spurred his horse over the edge, plunging into the waters of Sanbōji Pond, where both horse and rider drowned. Yasutsune had a beautiful second daughter called Princess Teruhime, who was so saddened by her father's death that she threw herself into the same pond and drowned with him. Moved by compassion for the princess, Dōkan ordered a memorial mound built in her honor. Local folklore says that those who climb the old pine tree near Teruhime's mound can glimpse the golden saddle still gleaming at the bottom of the pond. This tree is called Teruhi-no-Matsu. Today, Nerima Ward commemorates the princess with an annual festival called the Teruhime Matsuri.
After the defeat of the Toshima clan, the area came under the influence of the Ōta clan, and then the Hōjō clan, before transitioning into the Tokugawa era.
During the Edo period, Nerima developed as a major suburban farming village in Toshima District, that supplied the city of Edo with daikon, burdock, and potatoes, among other products. During this period, the area's specialty, Nerima daikon developed. The earliest reference of Nerima daikon is from the 1683 geography book Murasak-no-Ippon One of the legends about its origin is related to Tokugawa Tsunayoshi, the 5th shogun of the Edo shogunate, who built a villa in the village of Shimo-Nerima before becoming shogun, and brought seeds of Miyashige daikon from Owari to a vacant lot within the villa and cultivated them. The Senkawa Aqueduct, which is now almost a culvert, was developed by the Tokugawa Shogunate in 1696 and became a valuable water resource for agriculture in Nerima at the time.
After the Boshin War, the city of Edo was removed from Toshima District, and was renamed Tokyo City. In 1878, during the abolition of the han system in the Meiji era, the rest of Toshima District was divided into Kita-Toshima District and Minami-Toshima District. Nerima was incorporated into Kita-Toshima District under the District, Town and Village Organization Act of 1878.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, population began to flow from the city center into the Nerima area.
On October 1, 1932, Kita-Toshima District merged into Tokyo City as part of Itabashi Ward, including the town of Nerima and the villages of Kami-Nerima, Naka-Arai, Shakujii, and Ōizumi.
During the Second World War, the Imperial Japanese Army operated Narimasu Airfield in the Nerima area in Itabashi Ward. At its peak, the earthworks were rushed, with 3,000 people working in day and night shifts each day. The Imperial Japanese Army's 47th Air Squadron, 43rd Airfield Battalion, and the Narimasu Detachment Maintenance Unit of the Tachikawa Branch of the Air Arsenal were based there.
Towards the end of the war, it became a place for the Southern Operation Squadron to regain its fighting strength, and the 48th and 231st Shinbu Special Attack Units were stationed here and used it as a training ground. In addition, the 101st, 102nd, and 103rd Air Squadrons were also relocated there.
Remnants of its wartime infrastructure can still be seen today. Concrete bunkers that once housed aircraft remain visible in Hikarigaoka Park, and the runway is now the main street in front of the IMA department store in Hikarigaoka.
During the occupation of Japan, the occupying Allied forces renamed the former Narimasu Airfield to Grant Heights on March 3, 1947. On April 5, the construction of family quarters for the United States Army Air Forces began, and was finished in June, 1948.
In 1946, shortly after the end of the war, the local government system was reviewed by a memorandum of the Allied Forces. One of the measures was to merge the then 35 wards of Tokyo into 22 wards. The people of the Nerima area in Itabashi Ward had long been troubled by the distance of the Itabashi Ward Office. Since the establishment of Itabashi Ward in 1932, there have been several talks about separating the Nerima region, but they had not been successful. During the review of the ward system, the town council presidents, ward assembly members, and various organization leaders of Nerima, Shakujii, and Ōizumi got together to try to make Nerima independent from Itabashi Ward, but the purpose of the occupying forces was to merge wards, not create new ones. In March, 1947, the wards of Tokyo were merged into 22 wards, with Nerima still being part of Itabashi Ward. After much campaigning, five months after the establishment of the 22 special wards, on August 1st, Nerima Ward was established and declared independent from Itabashi Ward, becoming the 23rd special ward of Tokyo. Nerima Ward's independence day is commemorated annually.
When the Allied occupation of Japan ended in 1952, the Japan Self-Defense Forces established a base in Nerima Ward. The first division of the eastern group of the Ground Self-Defense Force has its headquarters there.
In 1973, the United States Forces Japan returned Grant Heights to Japanese control.

Culture

Festivals

  • Teruhime Matsuri : A festival held annually in Shakujii Park in honor of Teruhime, daughter of Toshima Yasutsune, lord of Shakujii Castle during the Muromachi period. People dressed in period costumes as Princess Teruhime, Lord Yasutsune, the wife, members of the Toshima clan, and retainers perform the stage play The Legend of Teruhime and parade around the park. The roles of the princes, the mother, and the lord are open to the public, and can be played by people living in Nerima Ward.
  • Yosakoi Matsuri in Hikarigaoka Park
  • Nerima Festival
  • Tori-no-Ichi : A festival held at Nerima Ōtori Shrine in the Toyotama-Kita neighborhood every November on the day of the rooster, attracting tens of thousands of people.
  • Seki-no-Boroichi Market : A traditional flea market which has been held every December since 1751 during the Edo period in Honryūji Temple, in the Sekimachi-Kita neighborhood, next to Musashi-Seki Station.

    Traditional Products

  • Cabbage
  • Nerima daikon
  • Pickled vegetables, centered around pickled daikon
  • Sweets such as monaka and manjū featuring Nerima daikon motifs
  • Tokyo hand-painted yuzen

    Food

  • Nerima Spaghetti (pasta dish that uses grated Nerima daikon and canned tuna for the sauce, which is then topped with seaweed flakes. This dish is usually served in elementary schools and is a staple in many Nerima citizens' childhood.

    Animation

Nerima Ward is the birthplace of Japanese anime, where Japan's first full-length color theatrical anime film The Tale of the White Serpent was produced. It is also the birthplace of television anime, where the world's first weekly broadcast full-scale TV anime series Astro Boy was created in 1963, and Japan's first full-color TV anime series Jungle Emperor Leo began in 1965.
From Toei Animation's Ōizumi Studio, many anime industry figures including Hayao Miyazaki, Isao Takahata, Rintaro, Yasuo Otsuka, and Mamoru Hosoda have emerged.
Nerima Ward, home to Toei Animation and Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production, has 94 anime-related companies, making it Japan's largest concentration of anime-related businesses. Numerous works have been produced here and set in this location.
Beyond anime, this area has also been frequently used for filming tokusatsu productions, particularly the long-running Super Sentai series that has continued for 30 years, and Kamen Rider.
Since 2002, the annual Nerima Anime Festival has been held in Ōizumi-Gakuen, working with shopping districts and NPOs to promote anime.
In 2004, the Nerima Animation Council was established by about 50 businesses including Mushi Production and Toei Animation to promote anime in Nerima Ward. The council has been aiming to build an anime museum in the ward since its predecessor NPO Anime Museum Association was established in 1994. However, progress has stalled due to concerns about duplication after Toei Animation independently created the Toei Animation Gallery in 2003.

Manga

Nerima Ward attracted many manga artists including Osamu Tezuka and Shotaro Ishinomori to establish their residences and workplaces due to its convenient transportation access to publishing companies in Chiyoda Ward's Hitotsubashi and Kanda-Jinbōchō areas, and Bunkyō Ward's Otowa area. Other advantages included proximity to art supply stores and being somewhat removed from distracting entertainment districts, allowing for concentrated work.
Many manga artists, both famous and unknown, have permanently resided or temporarily lived here, including Reiji Matsumoto, Keizo Shimada, Noboru Baba, Jiro Ota, Fujio Akatsuka, Sanpei Furuya, Tetsuya Chiba, Akio Chiba, Asao Takamori, Fujiko Fujio, Moto Hagio, Keiko Takemiya, Yasumi Yoshizawa, Kenshi Hirokane, Fumi Saimon, Hideo Azuma, Rumiko Takahashi, and Yoshinori Kobayashi. Many manga works feature settings and backgrounds based on Nerima Ward.
In Nerima Ward's Ōizumi area, there existed the Ōizumi Salon, the female manga artist version of Tokiwa-so, where many renowned female manga artists including Moto Hagio and Keiko Takemiya developed their careers.

In Manga and Anime

Ranma ½

Nerima is the setting of Rumiko Takahashi's long running and popular manga and anime series Ranma ½. Soun Tendo's dojo, where the main story takes place, is in Nerima Ward. As one of the first series in either media to achieve widespread popularity in the English speaking world, Ranma introduced Nerima to western audiences, with several locations recognizable as backgrounds, such as Shakujii River and Shakujii Park.

Doraemon

In Fujiko Fujio's manga and anime series Doraemon, Nobita Nobi and his friends live in Nerima Ward, close to the Seibu Line, in a fictional neighborhood called Tsukimidai-Susukigahara. Suneo Honekawa's address is Tokyo, Nerima Ward, Tsukimidai-Susukigahara 3-10-5.

Digimon Adventure

In the 1999 animated short film Digimon Adventure, Tai, as well as the rest of the DigiDestined were residents of Hikarigaoka, often renamed Highton View Terrace in the English dub. Following the Parrotmon incident, many of the DigiDestined parents moved to Odaiba.
In episode 29 of Digimon Adventure, the location served to give a recollection of the incident to the DigiDestined, who had arrived in search of the eight child. They later go to Hikarigaoka Park and Nerima Station.

Nerima Daikon Brothers

In Takamitsu Kondō's Nerima Daikon Brothers, the trio lives on a stage constructed in Hideki's daikon patch in Nerima Ward.

Urusei Yatsura

In Rumiko Takahashi's Urusei Yatsura, which was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday and became a huge hit, is set in Nerima Ward. The address of the main character, Ataru Moroboshi, is in a fictional neighborhood in Nerima Ward called Tomobiki-chō, translated as Tomobiki Town.

I Am a Hero

's zombie-manga I Am a Hero is set in Miharadai in Nerima Ward.

Nodame Cantabile

Nodame Cantabile is a popular manga based on classical music that has been made into an anime and a live-action film. The Momogaoka College of Music that appears in the work is modeled after the Ekoda campus of Musashino Academia Musicae in Nerima Ward. The nearest station, Ekoda Station, was once decorated with an illustration of the main character.

Prison School

Hachimitsu Academy, the main setting of the anime and manga series Prison School, is a fictional high school located in Nerima Ward.

Tokyo Ghoul

In Sui Ishida's manga and anime series Tokyo Ghoul, the coffee shop Antaiku where the main character Ken Kaneki works is in the 20th ward, which is Nerima Ward.

Haikyu!!

, one of the main teams of popular manga and anime Haikyu!!, is in Nerima Ward.

Your Lie in April

The manga and anime Your Lie in April is set in Nerima Ward, and the scenery of the ward and the Seibu Ikebukuro Line that runs through Nerima are often depicted in the work.

Maison Ikkoku

In the anime version of Rumiko Takahashi's Maison Ikkoku, the address of the house is 〒177 Tokyo, Nerima Ward, Tokeizaka 3-3-9.

Touch

's high school baseball manga and anime series Touch, serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday, is set in Nerima Ward, and the scenery of the ward frequently appears in the work. Also, the Neapolitan served at the coffee shop Minamikaze that appears in the work is modeled after the Neapolitan served at the coffee shop Andes near Nerima Station.
Many of Adachi's works, such as Miyuki, H2 and Cross Game, are set in Nerima Ward.

Train to the End of the World

In the anime series and manga Train to the End of the World, the main characters travel through Nerima Ward aboard a Seibu 2000 series commuter train on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line. Their journey takes them past numerous stations throughout Nerima Ward, all of which have been altered by the catastrophic 7G Incident. The series features a mise en abyme element through Alice in Nerima, a popular fictional anime and manga that exists within the show's universe, whose characters are manifested in reality as a consequence of the same incident.

Kyūkyoku Chōjin R

Kyūkyoku Chōjin R is a school comedy manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday by Masami Yuki, who is known for Mobile Police Patlabor and other works. The story is set in the fictional neighborhood of Isasaka-chō in Nerima Ward, Tokyo.

Birdy the Mighty

's Birdy the Mighty is also set in Nerima Ward, and many characters are named after places around Ekoda Station.

Sket Dance

's school comedy manga Sket Dance, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump, features station names that parody the Fujimidai and Nakamurabashi stations on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line, and is set in Nerima Ward.

Near Death!! Ekoda-chan

The four-panel comic serialized in Monthly Afternoon is set in Ekoda, Nerima Ward.

Shōjo Fight

The sports manga about volleyball Shojo Fight, serialized in Evening, depicts the scenery around Ekoda Station in Nerima Ward and around Toshimaen Station. In particular, the area around Ekoda Station is depicted a lot, and the ramen shop that the main characters go to in the manga is actually a real shop.
In the story, a station called Isasaka is created between the real stations of Ekoda and Sakuradai.

Hayate the Combat Butler

In Kenjiro Hata's manga and anime series Hayate the Combat Butler, the villa where the heroine, Nagi Sanzenin, lives and the story takes place is set to take up 65% of Nerima Ward.

Others

Nerima is also the setting for the popular anime and manga series Rent-A-Girlfriend, Majokko Tickle, Katteni Kaizō, SSSS.Gridman, Robot Girls Z, and One Room.

In Films

The Grudge

The popular Japanese horror franchise, Ju On, also known as The Grudge, takes place predominantly in a house in Nerima Ward.

Economy

has its headquarters in the Ōizumi Studio in Nerima. Anime International Company has its headquarters in the AIC Digital Building. In addition, Studio Comet, and Mushi Production have their headquarters in Nerima.

Anime Studios

Government

Nerima Ward is governed by a directly elected ward mayor and a ward assembly, with the current ward mayor serving four-year terms. Like other Tokyo wards, Nerima has significant autonomy in local affairs such as education, welfare services, and urban planning, while the Tokyo Metropolitan Government handles broader regional issues like water supply and major infrastructure. The ward assembly, composed of members elected from local districts, deliberates on budgets, ordinances, and policies. The ward government operates various public services including libraries, community centers, and local administrative offices.
The ward office and city hall is in Toyotama-Kita, close to Nerima Station.

Designation

Nerima is designated as a special ward of Tokyo. Even though it is not designated as a "city", in English, Nerima translates its designation as a "ward" to "city" and refers to itself as Nerima City, following the practice of several other Tokyo special wards. However, in Japanese, it maintains its official designation as Nerima Ward, with its government office referred to as the Ward Office and its leader as the Ward Mayor.

Ward Mayor

  • Ward Mayor ：Akio Maekawa

    Ward Residents' Offices

Administrative services are provided through a network of six local ward residents' offices strategically positioned throughout the ward.

Transportation

Rail

[Tokyo Metro]

[Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation]

[Seibu Railway]

[Tobu Railway]

Bus

Colleges and universities

Prefectural high schools:
Nerima City Board of Education operates the following:
Combined elementary and junior high schools:
  • Ōizumi Sakura Gakuen
Junior high schools:
  • Asahigaoka Junior High School
  • Hikarigaoka No. 1 Junior High School
  • Hikarigaoka No. 2 Junior High School
  • Hikarigaoka No. 3 Junior High School
  • Hokei Junior High School
  • Kaishin No. 1 Junior High School
  • Kaishin No. 2 Junior High School
  • Kaishin No. 3 Junior High School
  • Kaishin No. 4 Junior High School
  • Kami Shakujii Junior High School
  • Kitamachi Junior High School
  • Miharadai Junior High School
  • Minamigaoka Junior High School
  • Nakamura Junior High School
  • Nerima Junior High School
  • Nerima Higashi Junior High School
  • Nukui Junior High School
  • Ōizumi Junior High School
  • Ōizumi No. 2 Junior High School
  • Ōizumi Gakuen Junior High School
  • Ōizumi Kita Junior High School
  • Ōizumi Nishi Junior High School
  • Seki Junior High School
  • Shakujii Junior High School
  • Shakujii Higashi Junior High School
  • Shakujii Minami Junior High School
  • Shakujii Nishi Junior High School
  • Tagara Junior High School
  • Toyotama Junior High School
  • Toyotama No. 2 Junior High School
  • Yahara Junior High School
  • Yasaka Junior High School
Elementary schools:
  • Asahicho Elementary School
  • Asahigaoka Elementary School
  • Fujimidai Elementary School
  • Hashido Elementary School
  • Hayamiya Elementary School
  • Hikarigaoka No. 8 Elementary School
  • Hikarigaoka Akinohi Elementary School
  • Hikarigaoka Harunokaze Elementary School
  • Hikarigaoka Natsunokumo Elementary School
  • Hikarigaoka Shikinokaori Elementary School
  • Hokei Elementary School
  • Kaishin No. 1 Elementary School
  • Kaishin No. 2 Elementary School
  • Kaishin No. 3 Elementary School
  • Kaishin No. 4 Elementary School
  • Kamishakujii Elementary School
  • Kamishakujii Kita Elementary School
  • Kasuga Elementary School
  • Kitahara Elementary School
  • Kitamachi Elementary School
  • Kitamachi Nishi Elementary School
  • Kotake Elementary School
  • Kowa Elementary School
  • Koyama Elementary School
  • Minamicho Elementary School
  • Minamigaoka Elementary School
  • Minami Tanaka Elementary School
  • Nakamachi Elementary School
  • Nakamura Elementary School
  • Nakamura Nishi Elementary School
  • Nerima Elementary School
  • Nerima No. 2 Elementary School
  • Nerima No. 3 Elementary School
  • Nerima Higashi Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Elementary School
  • Ōizumi No. 1 Elementary School
  • Ōizumi No. 2 Elementary School
  • Ōizumi No. 3 Elementary School
  • Ōizumi No. 4 Elementary School
  • Ōizumi No. 6 Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Gakuen Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Gakuen Midori Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Higashi Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Kita Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Minami Elementary School
  • Ōizumi Nishi Elementary School
  • Sekimachi Elementary School
  • Sekimachi Kita Elementary School
  • Senshin Elementary School
  • Shakujii Elementary School
  • Shakujiidai Elementary School
  • Shakujii Higashi Elementary School
  • Shakujii Nishi Elementary School
  • Shimo Shakujii Elementary School
  • Tagara Elementary School
  • Tagara No. 2 Elementary School
  • Takamatsu Elementary School
  • Tateno Elementary School
  • Toyotama Elementary School
  • Toyotama No. 2 Elementary School
  • Toyotama Higashi Elementary School
  • Toyotama Minami Elementary School
  • Yasaka Elementary School
  • Yawara Elementary School

    Private schools

  • One elementary school
  • Four junior and senior high schools
  • One high school
  • One international school
They are:
Nerima prepares the Nerima News Azalea, a city newsletter, in English.

Other

Nerima has a sister-city relationship with Ipswich, Queensland, Australia. Nerima Gardens in Ipswich commemorates the tie. Nerima also has a similar link to Haidian District, Beijing, China.