Residential streets next door to Shimokitazawa, the covered Kitazawa River now a cherry-tree greenway
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The entire Kitazawa River was turned into a covered channel, with a cherry-blossom-lined greenway running on top. In this stretch through Daizawa 3-chome, the greenway passes between houses, and alongside it runs a small stream made from diverted water.
Daizawa straddles the plateau and the low-lying land along the Kitazawa River, so it has quite a lot of ups and downs. 1-chome and 4-chome are mainly residential; 3-chome has Kitazawa Hachiman Shrine and Shingan-ji, which was originally the center of Shimokitazawa.
Ikenoue Station is in 2-chome; coming out of the station you're on a Tokyo metropolitan road 5 to 6 meters wide, with no station plaza. There are a few small shops along the road, but their numbers keep dwindling, and the area is gradually turning residential.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 94th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest-ranking item in this neighborhood. There's a cherry-blossom greenway you can walk right between the residential lanes.
Shimokitazawa is only 600 meters away, and it's about 8 minutes on foot to either Shimokitazawa Station or the Odakyu Line's Higashi-Kitazawa Station, both of which are outside this neighborhood. Most properties within the neighborhood list Ikenoue Station as their nearest station: 24 buildings in Daizawa 2-chome, 22 in 3-chome, and 23 in Kitazawa 1-chome.
Sidewalks rank 307th, the weakest-ranking item in this neighborhood. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 179 people per hectare.
Ikenoue Station is served only by Local trains; Keio Inokashira Line Express trains run straight through without stopping. Daizawa 1-chome is close to Komaba-Todaimae Station, and 13 of the 30 properties there list that station as their nearest.
The name "Daizawa" comes from a private school in front of Shingan-ji during the Ansei era of the Edo period: it stood at the border between Daita village and Shimokitazawa village, so it was called "Daizawa Juku". The name was first officially used in 1898 when the Daizawa branch school opened—today's Daizawa Elementary School.
Ikenoue Station opened in 1933 as a station on the Teito Electric Railway, and has been part of the Keio Inokashira Line since 1948. In 1964, when the residential address system was implemented, most of the southern part of old Kitazawa and most of Shimo-Daita-cho were merged into Daizawa.
The Kitazawa River was gradually covered over between the 1970s and 80s, and only afterward was the area on top landscaped into today's greenway.
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