Unique Things in Ota City

Komainu is placed as a guardian at the entrance to a temple or shrine or in front of the main building of a shrine.
A pair of stone-carved dogs, one with an open mouth (Agyo) and another with a closed mouth (Ungyo), face each other at the right and left of the entrance.
Komainu at Rokugo Shrine is the oldest in the city, and it is known that people in Rokugo, as shrine petitioners, offered them in 1685.
“Sanemon,” the name of a person who carved these dogs, is inscribed on them.

Familiar as a “Tire Park.”
In addition to monsters and robots made of old tires, there is a lot of tire-made playground equipment.
A huge dinosaur is 8 meter tall from foot to head and 20 meter long from head to the very end of the tail.

Very rare intersection with seven roads crossing each other at one point.
With no traffic signal, drivers give way to others for safety.
A signboard says “Japan’s model intersection of a spirit of mutual concessions”
Minami-Kamata 2 Chome, Haginaka 1 Chome, Higashi-Rokugo 1 Chome, Minami-Rokugo 1 Chome

One and only rooftop Ferris wheel in Tokyo.
“Oshiro Kanransha (nickname)” installed at the time of store opening in 1968 (in service till 1989) changed to “Gureta no Kanransha – Flower Wheel” in 1989 (in service till 2014). In March 2014, when the whole building was temporarily closed for renovation, the Ferris wheel was also on the verge of discontinuation.
But, many people in the community hoped for continuation, and in October 2014, the Ferris wheel returned with a new nickname “Shiawase no Kanransha” (Ferris Wheel of Fortune) and new color.
It still plays a role of “Kamata’s landmark” and is well known throughout the country.