A three-hundred-metre ginkgo avenue turns gold in late autumn, with corporate headquarters lining Aoyama-dori
Turning off Aoyama-dori into Jingu Gaien, a roughly 300-metre ginkgo avenue runs straight to the Meiji Memorial Picture Gallery, turning the whole row golden from late November to early December each year. Most of the avenue lies within the neighborhood, in Kita-Aoyama, but the Picture Gallery at its far end is already outside the neighborhood. The name of Gaienmae Station comes from this very Gaien. Walking east from the station along Aoyama-dori to Aoyama-itchome, the streets on both sides turn into an office district packed with corporate headquarters.
Aoyama-itchome Station has the Ginza Line, the Hanzomon Line, and the Toei Oedo Line, and Gaienmae Station also has the Ginza Line, putting public transit 13th among Tokyo's 193 neighborhoods. Greenery also ranks near the top, at 16th, with the ginkgo avenue of Gaien available for a stroll. Next to the Minami-Aoyama side exit of Gaienmae Station is Baisoin, the bodaiji (the family temple where ancestors are enshrined) of a branch of the Aoyama family. This branch of the Aoyama family held the Gujo domain in Gifu Prefecture during the Edo period, so the temple holds the Gujo Odori in Aoyama once a year.
Not many people live on this Kita-Aoyama side: Kita-Aoyama 2-chome, where Gaienmae Station sits, had only 532 residents in 2025, and 1-chome had only 1,483. Daily shopping ranks 123rd among the 193 neighborhoods and medical care ranks 139th, so grocery shopping and seeing a doctor aren't as convenient as getting around by train.
In the Edo period, this area was a large shimo-yashiki (secondary residence) belonging to Aoyama Tadanari, a senior retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the place name Aoyama comes from this. In 1926, Meiji Jingu Gaien was completed on the former site of the Aoyama military parade ground. The subway reached here in 1938, when Gaienmae Station opened under the name Aoyama-yonchome Station and was renamed the following year; Aoyama-itchome Station opened the same year. In 1947, the predecessor of today's Prince Chichibu Memorial Rugby Ground (Chichibunomiya) was completed on the former site of the Joshi Gakushuin (Women's Peers School). The Hanzomon Line reached Aoyama-itchome in 1978, followed by the Toei Oedo Line in 2000, giving rise to today's meeting point of three lines.
The redevelopment of Jingu Gaien is being carried out by Mitsui Fudosan, Meiji Jingu, the Urban Renaissance Agency, and Itochu, covering Kita-Aoyama 1-chome and 2-chome, about 17.5 hectares in total. The urban plan was decided in 2022, approval to proceed was obtained in 2023, and the buildings are scheduled to be completed in fiscal 2037. The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has set preserving the view "looking from the ginkgo avenue toward the Picture Gallery" as a goal, and in September 2024 the developers also released a revised tree preservation plan.
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