The center of southwest Nerima City, with small shops lining the street in front of the station and vegetable fields scattered among the houses
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Kami-Shakujii Station is the center of a shopping street that spreads out from it, with small shops and restaurants one after another. The three supermarkets Seiyu, Inageya, and Life are all around the station, and locals often say you can finish your shopping, post office errands, and banking all in front of the station.
Step out of the shopping street and you're in a residential area. Locals say that among the houses further from the station, fields are still scattered here and there, giving you a chance to buy locally grown vegetables. In the City's 2000 statistics, Kami-Shakujii still had 14 farming households selling produce, but urbanization has kept shrinking the farmland.
The old public housing complex in 3-chome, completed in 1967 with 490 units, has been rebuilt into new apartment buildings starting in 2020. In 2020, about 24,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 137 per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 214th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood.
Kami-Shakujii Station is an Express stop on the Seibu Shinjuku Line, and locals often say that taking the Express for 3 stations gets you to Shinjuku in as little as about 15 minutes. The south exit has Kanto bus lines to Nishi-Ogikubo and Kichijoji, both connecting to JR Chuo Line stations.
Daily shopping ranks 269th, toward the lower end; the supermarkets are concentrated around the station, so residential streets farther from the station require a longer walk.
Sidewalks rank 328th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood. The City office also notes that the streets in the shopping district around the station are narrow, with buses, cars, bicycles, and pedestrians all crowded together.
Public transit ranks 252nd, slightly below the middle. The farthest boundary of the neighborhood from Kami-Shakujii Station is about 1.2 kilometers away.
The name Kami-Shakujii comes from the oaza (district) name "Kami-Shakujii" that remained when it merged into Shakujii Village in 1889. Seibu opened a station here in 1927, the area was incorporated into Itabashi City in 1932, and it was split off into Nerima City in 1947.
In 1984, part of the old 1-chome was split off to form Kami-Shakujii-Minamicho, and in 1985 the current 1-chome through 4-chome were established.
On March 6, 2024, the continuous grade separation project for the Seibu Shinjuku Line began, and Kami-Shakujii Station will change from 2 platforms/3 tracks to 2 platforms/4 tracks, with a new transportation plaza to be built.
A new 22-meter-wide surface ring road is also planned on the west side of the station. Both this road and the station plaza had their projects begun on December 25, 2018, and the City office's page does not list a completion schedule.
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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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