A shopping street beside the danchi housing, with a morning market one Sunday a month
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On the ground level around Aoi Station, the area is surrounded by Toei housing complexes (public housing run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government). There aren't many shops right by the station; walk about 200 meters north and you'll reach the east-west running Aoi Heiwa-dori shopping street.
This shopping street holds the Aoi Asa-ichi morning market at 7am on the fourth Sunday of every month. Starting in 2006, the neighborhood association, the shopping street, and Aoi Elementary School have worked together to promote the area as a "Town of Roses," and Seiwa Rose Park, west of the station, has hosted a rose festival.
Aoi-cho is almost entirely residential, including Toei housing. The population has declined slightly since 2010, but the number of households has kept rising, from 6,154 in 1995 to 8,788 in 2020.
From our street photos, sidewalks rank 217th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest score among the categories for this neighborhood. Seiyu Aoi, the park, and the elementary school are all around the station, so you can string them together on an everyday walk.
Aoi Station is an underground station on the Tsukuba Express, 3.1 km to Kita-Senju and 10.6 km to Akihabara.
Greenery ranks 366th, the weakest category for this neighborhood; public transit ranks 274th, also near the bottom.
The only line you can ride in this neighborhood is the Tsukuba Express at Aoi Station, with about 7,000 people boarding there per day in fiscal year 2025. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 175 people per hectare.
During the Edo period, this area was a patchwork of cultivated fields belonging to several villages. When the residential address system was introduced in 1966, because this had been called the "diligently cultivated fields" of each village, the character for "diligent" (sei) was swapped for the character for "blue" (sei), and the character for "cultivate" (kou) was swapped for the character for "well" (i), giving the name Aoi.
In 1962, the Heiwa-dori merchants' association was founded; in 1973, Aoi Elementary School and Aoi Junior High School opened; and in 1976, Tokyo Metropolitan Aoi High School opened. Before the Tsukuba Express opened in 2005, it took a 25-minute walk to reach the nearest stations, Ayase and Gotanno.
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Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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