The terminus of the Toei Oedo Line: the Hikarigaoka housing estate, occupied from 1983, and the Hikarigaoka Park right next to it
Take the Oedo Line to the end and you arrive at Hikarigaoka Station. Exit the station and you walk straight into Hikarigaoka IMA. Go up to ground level and you're surrounded by rows of apartment buildings—about 12,000 units in total. When they planned this place, they separated pedestrian paths from the roads. The terrain is flat, and you see a lot of people cycling around. Right next to the apartment complex is Hikarigaoka Park, a 60-hectare green space that makes up Hikarigaoka 4-chome, which doesn't fall within this neighbourhood.
In our street view photos, greenery ranks number 1 among Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods. Cleanliness ranks 4th, and sidewalks rank 31st—the whole apartment complex looks very neat and tidy. Hikarigaoka IMA centres around an Aeon Nerima store, with three buildings and over 100 shops altogether. Nerima Hikarigaoka Hospital moved to the old middle school site within the apartment complex in 2022, with 457 beds. Outside the neighbourhood, Hikarigaoka Park has a library, gymnasium, baseball field and tennis courts—you can reach them on foot from the apartment complex.
Public transport ranks 133rd—there's only the Oedo Line, taking about 24 minutes to Shinjuku with no transfers needed. Daily shopping ranks 141st; this is an average of the distance from each location to the nearest shops, and most stores are concentrated at Hikarigaoka IMA in front of the station. If you live on the other side of the apartment complex, you have to walk quite a distance. Buildings rank 121st; the apartment complex started welcoming residents from 1983, so it's over 40 years old now.
This site was the old Imperial Japanese Army's Narimasu Airfield in 1942. After the war it became Grant Heights, a U.S. military family housing area named after Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th U.S. President, and was only fully returned in September 1973. The name "Hikarigaoka" echoes Nerima Ward's image as the "City of Green and Sun." Other candidates for the name included Midorigaoka, Midoridai, Aobadai and Wakabadai. The apartment complex started welcoming residents in spring 1983, but the station didn't open until December 1991.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
78 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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