Kochikame: the real places
Forty years of weekly serialisation about a police box in Kameari, written by Osamu Akimoto, who is from Kameari. The ward answered with fifteen bronzes around the station — Ryo-san saluting, Ryo-san in festival dress, Ryo-san dancing samba, and the others — so the walk is a few hundred metres and the statues are the street furniture. Kameari is twenty minutes from Ueno on the Joban line and is not a tourist district in any other sense, which is exactly why it reads as the manga did: an ordinary neighbourhood that happens to have been drawn every week for four decades.
3 places
Statue
Ryo-san, Kameari station north exit
The first of the fifteen, in the square outside the north exit, and the one every photograph of Kameari has in it. The ward's map is handed out just inside the station, so the statue and the route both start here.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区亀有5-33（亀有駅北口）
- Getting there
- JR Joban line, Kameari, at the station
Kameari is on the JR Joban local line, about twenty minutes from Ueno. Everything on this page is within a few hundred metres of the station.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Statue
Ryo-san, Nakagawa and Reiko, Kameari south exit
The three of them together on the south side — the only group in the set, and the one that makes the joke land: a police box comedy greeting you at the exit of the station it was named after.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区亀有3-26（亀有駅南口）
- Getting there
- JR Joban line, Kameari, at the south exit
South exit, so a different side from the north-exit Ryo-san; the two are a two-minute walk apart through the station.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
Shrine · Rules of its own
“Aiming for that star” Ryo-san, Kameari Katori shrine
A statue of Ryo-san inside the grounds of the neighbourhood shrine, which the ward lists among the fifteen. The shrine is a sports shrine — people come here to pray before matches and exams — so the two things standing in the same courtyard are less of a collision than they look.
- Address
- 東京都葛飾区亀有3-42-24
- Getting there
- JR Joban line, Kameari, about 5 min on foot
About five minutes on foot from Kameari station, and the grounds are open and free.
Rules of its own. An active shrine before it is anything else. Bow at the gate, keep off the centre of the path, do not photograph anyone at prayer, and treat the statue as something standing in someone's place of worship — because it is.
On the map · Official page · read on September 26, 2026
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