Across the Koshu Kaido, a Tokyo "Okinawa Town" of about 70 shops
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Cross Koshu Kaido from Daitabashi Station and walk 5 minutes, and you'll reach Izumi Meitengai, which people call Tokyo's "Little Okinawa". About 70 shops line up along 380 meters, on the Izumi, Suginami City side of this neighborhood.
Suginami has long been home to many people from Okinawa, and this shopping street was born in 2005 as part of a Suginami City neighborhood development project. This neighborhood combines Ohara 1-chome and 2-chome in Setagaya City, where the station sits, with Izumi 1-chome in Suginami City across Koshu Kaido.
On the Ohara side, Tamagawa Josui has been covered over into an underground channel, with the area above turned into parks and a greenway. Only on the Sasazuka side of the station, beneath the platform, can you still see a stretch of the waterway left open.
From our street photos, sidewalks rank 96th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest score for this neighborhood; public transit ranks 103rd, also in the upper half.
There's a Keio Store Daitabashi location in front of the station. Of the 30 properties in Ohara 2-chome, 28 list Daitabashi Station as their nearest station, and so do 22 in Izumi 1-chome. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 211 people per hectare.
Greenery ranks 301st, the weakest score for this neighborhood. Daitabashi Station only stops Local trains; Special Express and Express trains pass through without stopping.
Ohara Intersection, where Koshu Kaido meets Kan-nana, has one of the highest traffic volumes in Tokyo. Ohara 1-chome is designated as a disaster prevention neighborhood improvement district, with goals to improve roads, make buildings fire-resistant, and avoid overcrowding.
In that same 1-chome, of 30 properties only 13 list Daitabashi Station, while 9 list Sasazuka Station and 7 list Shimokitazawa Station.
"Daitabashi" was originally a bridge. Before Tamagawa Josui was covered over, Koshu Kaido crossed the waterway about 100 meters northeast of the station, and that bridge was called Daitabashi, named after the nearby Daita Village.
In 1913, Keio opened a station here and kept the bridge's name; the bridge itself no longer exists today. Ohara was also originally part of Daita Village, and only became the present Ohara 1-chome and 2-chome after a residential address reorganization in 1964.
About 7.2 kilometers of the Keio Line between Sasazuka and Sengawa is set to be elevated, with Tokyo's project period running through fiscal year 2030. Once Daitabashi Station is elevated, it will change from two side platforms to a single island platform.
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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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