Trie Keio Chofu, PARCO and the Tenjin-dori shopping street by Chofu Station, the Fuda and Kojima-cho homes along the old Koshu Kaido, up to Fuda Tenjin Shrine
Chofu Station moved entirely underground in 2012. Where the tracks used to run there is now a station plaza joining the north and south sides, along with Trie Keio Chofu, the station building. PARCO is right outside the north exit; walk north up the Tenjin-dori shopping street, cross the Koshu Kaido, and you reach Fuda Tenjin Shrine. The street's nickname is "Kitaro-dori", and it is lined with statues of the yokai from the manga Kitaro.
This is one of the big stations on the Keio Line: every train stops here except the Keio Liner and the Mt. Takao service to Takaosan. The station building, PARCO and five neighbouring merchants' associations have joined into one shopping-street association, and for everyday shopping the area ranks 51st of Tokyo's 167 neighbourhoods. Seeing a doctor and picking up prescriptions is even easier: medical and pharmacy access ranks 32nd, this neighbourhood's strongest category.
In our street photos, the station area is mostly buildings and shopfronts, and greenery ranks 139th of 167, the weakest category here. Note too that "Chofu" here means only the area around the station, not the whole of Chofu City; if you want to live near Jindaiji Temple, it is about 1.8 km north of the station and outside this neighbourhood.
The place name "Fuda" is said to come from the old practice of rinsing cloth paid as tax in the Tama River, and the city's name, Chofu, comes from the same story. Fuda Tenjin Shrine already appears in the shrine register of the Engishiki, compiled in 927. It originally stood in what is now Fuda 5-chome and moved to its present site only after a great Tama River flood in 1477. In the Edo period, five post towns along the Koshu Kaido here took turns running the relay station, and together they were called the Fuda Goshuku, stretching more than three kilometres end to end. The manga artist Mizuki Shigeru, who lived in Chofu, took the woods behind the shrine as his inspiration and made them Kitaro's home. Chofu Station opened in 1913 with the Keio Electric Tramway. After the line went underground, Trie Keio Chofu was built over the old tracks and opened in 2017. Work on the station plaza was completed in March 2026.
Compared with the 167 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
101 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-03
Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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