Hatsudai Station on the Keio New Line, beside Tokyo Opera City and the New National Theatre, with quiet lanes on both sides of Koshu-kaido
Hatsudai Station's platforms are stacked on two levels, directly beneath Shuto Expressway Route 4 and Koshu-kaido. The East Exit leads straight into Tokyo Opera City, and the Central Exit comes out at the New National Theatre. Koshu-kaido is lined with tall buildings, but turn into Hatsudai 1- and 2-chome and it is mostly quiet residential lanes. The gentle slope from the station towards Yoyogi Hachimangu Shrine is called Hatsudai-zaka; the shrine itself is outside this neighbourhood.
Everyday shopping ranks 25th among Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods, and everyday convenience 50th. From Hatsudai Station towards Hatagaya runs the Hatsudai Ryokudo, a footpath built over the old course of the Tamagawa Aqueduct and lined with cherry trees. Every year on September 22 and 23, the Hatsudai shopping street holds an Awa Odori dance festival.
Trains on the Keio main line all pass through without stopping; only Keio New Line trains stop here. Clinics and pharmacies rank 82nd, the weakest of the three everyday-convenience scores here. In our street photos, cleanliness ranks 79th, mid-table among the 155 neighbourhoods.
According to Shibuya Ward, the name Hatsudai is linked to Hatsudai no Tsubone, wet nurse to the shogun Tokugawa Hidetada: in 1591 she was granted 200 koku of land in what was then Yoyogi Village, and she spent her last years here. Another account says that in the late Muromachi period Ota Dokan built several forts in Yoyogi Village, and the site of the first one, a signal-fire tower, later came to be called "Hatsudai". The station opened in 1914 as Kaiseibashi Station and was renamed Hatsudai in 1919. It went underground in 1964, and in 1978 moved to the Keio New Line platforms. The Opera City site once held a telephone office, a bus depot and a department store distribution centre, and the New National Theatre plot was the Tokyo Industrial Research Institute; Tokyo Opera City opened in August 1996. The New National Theatre next door opened the following October. Hatsudai's Awa Odori began in 1970 and held its 50th festival in 2019.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
68 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-02
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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