Higashi-Naganuma between Keio's Inagi Station and JR's Inagi-Naganuma Station: city hall, station-side shops and flat homes by the Tama River
JR Nambu Line's Inagi-Naganuma Station and Keio Sagamihara Line's Inagi Station are both in the town of Higashi-Naganuma. The two stations are about 900 metres apart, an easy walk between them, with Inagi City Hall sitting right in the middle. To the north is flatland along the Tama River, and right behind Inagi Station rise the Tama Hills.
In front of the south exit of Inagi-Naganuma Station, Pear Park has a life-size statue of the robot "Scopedog" from the anime Armored Trooper VOTOMS — part of the production cost was donated by Inagi-born mechanical designer Okawara Kunio. The tourist information centre under the elevated tracks also has a Gundam statue. The shopping street in front of the station, called Pearly Road, runs along the old Kawasaki Kaido. Going by our street photos, the greenery here ranks 44th out of the 180 neighbourhoods in Tokyo — the best of the seven categories we measure for this neighbourhood.
Both stations have supermarkets and shopping complexes right out front. That said, what we actually measure is how many supermarkets and convenience stores each home can walk to — since the shops cluster right by the stations, homes further away have far fewer nearby, so this neighbourhood ranks last out of the 180 for everyday shopping. Keio's Special Express and Express trains don't stop at Inagi Station — you'll need to take a Semi Express or a Rapid, and the neighbourhood ranks 153rd, in the lower tier, for public transport. The platform at Inagi Station is built on a curve, so there are spots with a wide gap between the train and the platform — mind the gap when getting on and off.
In the Edo period this area was called Naganuma Village. In 1878, because there was another Naganuma Village in the same county (in what is now Hachioji City), it was renamed Higashi-Naganuma Village. In 1889 it merged with five nearby villages to form Inagi Village — "Inagi" was a brand-new name coined at that time. No historical records confirm where it came from; local tradition says the first village head consulted Kubo Zenryo, a scholar of Chinese classics who ran a private school, and chose between "Inaho" (rice ear) and "Inagi" (rice castle), reflecting how the area had long grown fine rice and had once had several forts. In 1927 the Nambu Railway opened, and Inagi-Naganuma Station began service. In 1971 Inagi became a city. In 1974 Keio's Inagi Station opened — at naming time, some even proposed calling it "Inagi-Chuo". Between 2011 and 2013, this stretch of the Nambu Line was elevated.
A roughly 10.6-hectare land readjustment project (redrawing blocks and widening roads) centred on Inagi-Naganuma Station is still underway; the city government's published implementation period runs through fiscal year 2044. With the Nambu Line elevation now complete, work has moved on to the station plaza area south of the station and the blocks to its north.
Compared with the 180 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
131 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-04
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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