Hikawadai, a plateau named after Hikawa Shrine, next to Johoku Chuo Park with over nine thousand trees
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Hikawadai 1-chome, within the neighborhood, connects to the Tokyo Metropolitan Johoku Chuo Park; the other side of the park crosses into Itabashi City. The park has 9,200 trees, plus a baseball field, tennis courts, and a track and field ground.
The name Hikawadai refers to the plateau (dai) where Hikawa Shrine stands. They originally wanted to call it "Hikawa-cho," but since Itabashi City already had a town with the same name, they added "dai" instead.
Back around the station, there are drugstores, supermarkets, and a few fast-food and family restaurants. About 30,000 people lived in this neighborhood in 2020, roughly 155 per hectare.
Hikawadai Station serves two lines, the Yurakucho Line and the Fukutoshin Line, which share tracks between Wakoshi and Kotake-mukaihara. In fiscal 2025, about 39,000 people board and alight each day.
On real estate listing pages, a property in Hikawadai 4-chome is marked as a 3-minute walk to the station, and all 9 listings in Hazawa 3-chome are also marked as Hikawadai Station. Walking from the station to Johoku Chuo Park takes about 15 minutes. The neighboring Hazawa 1- and 2-chome are not within this neighborhood, and listings there are mostly marked as Shin-Sakuradai Station.
Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 124th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood, landing in the middle range.
Based on our street photos, buildings rank 325th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood; public transit ranks 346th, also in the lower range.
A major road project is coming to the area around the station: Radial Route 36 will run straight from Hikawadai to Kan-nana, with a basic width of 40 meters. As of summer 2025, the land between Kan-nana and Hikawadai Station has largely been acquired, but construction of the road itself has not yet begun.
The name Hikawadai only came into use after the residential address system was implemented on July 1, 1965; before that, this area was called Nakamachi 1- to 3-chome. The old name survives today in the name of Nerima City's Nakamachi Elementary School.
On June 24, 1983, the Yurakucho Line opened between Narimasu and Ikebukuro, and Hikawadai Station opened at the same time.
Radial Route 36 is targeted for completion before the project approval deadline of March 2031; the new bridge over the Shakujii River has already been built out to the central median. The crosswalk in front of Hikawadai Station, which was originally slated for removal, will be kept after a traffic study.
Once the stretch between Hikawadai and Heiwadai is widened to four lanes, the Heiwadai Tunnel will also open with four lanes. Nerima City is drafting a district plan for the area around the station to go along with this road; the public review of the initial draft is set to conclude in September 2026.
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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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