A quiet residential area mixed with company works, its station first opened to carry workers to a wartime munitions factory
Kita-Fuchu is a quiet residential area with company works mixed in; there aren't many shops in front of the station, it's not bustling, and the pace is calm. The station was originally built for a factory: during the war, in order to shuttle employees of the Toshiba Fuchu Plant (at the time a munitions factory), it began carrying passengers. Today, coming out of the ticket gates, the right side still connects to a passage leading into the Toshiba plant grounds, and the left side connects to a pedestrian bridge over Fuchu-kaido. The side track on the west side of the station runs into the plant grounds, and when riding the Musashino Line you can often see electric locomotives parked there.
The Musashino Line works like a loop line, so you can head to Saitama or Chiba without detouring through central Tokyo; to get to Shinjuku, transfer to the Chuo Line at Nishi-Kokubunji, about 40 minutes. Right in front of the station is Kita-Fuchu Park, which has shade trees and quite a few play structures. In the north of the neighborhood, Sakaecho 3-chome has Tokyo Metropolitan Fuchu High School, whose grounds were originally a practical training farm for a girls' school in 1946. From our street photos, greenery ranks 51st out of 199 neighborhoods, the best score in this neighborhood.
For daily shopping you'll need to walk a bit further: the nearest convenience store is about 40 meters in front of the station, and the supermarkets are all more than 700 meters away, so this neighborhood ranks last among Tokyo's 199 neighborhoods for daily shopping. The Toshiba connecting passage is for authorized personnel only; the general public can use the pedestrian path on the west side of the railway toward Nikkocho (outside the neighborhood), open from the first train to the last. According to the 2020 census, this neighborhood had 12,063 people, but Harumicho 4-chome is where Fuchu Prison is located, and most of the 2,575 people there are inmates, with only 317 households. So the population figure given on this page excludes this chome: the number of residents actually living in this neighborhood is about 9,500.
In 1910, the Tokyo Gravel Railway, built to carry gravel from the Tama River, opened, becoming Fuchu City's first railway. In 1934 it was converted into a passenger line running to Tokyo Racecourse, and the signal station that was the predecessor of Kita-Fuchu Station was also established that same year. This signal station began carrying passengers during the war, and was upgraded to a formal station in 1956. In 1973, the Musashino Line opened, and Kita-Fuchu Station came under the Musashino Line.
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Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods 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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