An anime town where the platform departure melody is the Gundam theme and a Gundam statue stands outside the station
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On the platform at Kami-Igusa Station, the departure melody is the theme song of Mobile Suit Gundam. The song was changed to this one in 2008 because Sunrise, the animation studio that made Gundam, had its head office nearby at the time.
Coming out of the south exit, there's a Gundam memorial statue in front of the station. The shopping street flies Gundam flags, and some shops have Gundam painted on their shutters; further out beyond that are houses.
This neighborhood covers Kami-Igusa 2- to 4-chome, Igusa 5-chome, and Imagawa 2- to 4-chome, with the station right up against the border with Nerima City. In 2020 about 22,000 people lived here, about 135 per hectare.
Greenery ranks 101st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the upper range — the highest-ranked item for this neighborhood. The City-run Kami-Igusa Sports Center is also in this neighborhood, built on top of a water reservoir.
Kami-Igusa Stadium, where Waseda University's rugby club practices, moved here from Higashi-Fushimi in 2002.
Seibu Bus runs from the station to Shakujii and Oizumi, and also to Ogikubo and Asagaya.
Public transit ranks 305th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and daily shopping ranks 330th, both in the lower range. Imagawa has no station of its own; from 3- and 4-chome it's a 10- to 18-minute walk to Kami-Igusa Station, and some listings suggest taking a bus to Ogikubo instead.
We used point sampling on the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard maps to estimate that about 20% of locations in this neighborhood fall within the expected flood zone for the largest-scale rainfall scenario, mostly under 0.5 meters.
The place name "Imagawa" comes from the Imagawa family, hatamoto (bannermen) who governed this area in the Edo period. In 1645, Tokugawa Iemitsu granted this area to the Imagawa family as their fief. In 1662, Imagawa Naofusa moved the grave of his grandfather Ujizane into Kansen-ji temple in 2-chome.
The land where the Kami-Igusa Sports Center now stands opened as Kami-Igusa Stadium in 1936, and was the prewar home ground of the professional baseball team Tokyo Senators. In 1959, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government tore down the stadium to build a water reservoir, and it wasn't until 1967 that a baseball field and gymnasium were built above the reservoir.
A roughly 5.1-kilometer stretch of the Seibu Shinjuku Line between Iogi and Seibu-Yagisawa is being elevated; project approval was obtained in March 2024, and the rail construction is scheduled to run through March 2038.
Kami-Igusa Station falls within this stretch. Right now each direction's platform has its own ticket gate, with no footbridge connecting them inside the station; after elevation, it will become a single island platform, with trains in both directions stopping on either side of the same platform.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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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