Beside the station at the westernmost edge of Setagaya, kingfishers come to feed along the cherry-lined banks of the Nogawa
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Kitami Station is the westernmost station in Setagaya City. Walk 4 minutes from the station and you reach the Nogawa Greenway: the bank on the west side of the Nogawa River has been turned into a 718-meter path lined with cherry trees, with the Kokubunji woods on the opposite bank. Standing on Shinmei Bridge in the middle, you can see carp and small fish, and kingfishers come here to feed.
Back at the station, the north exit has a post office and a police box, and the south exit has a Summit supermarket and a bank. Under the elevated tracks on both sides is Odakyu Marche Kitami, and the roof of the train depot beside the greenway has been turned into a City-run plaza for community exchange.
Part of Kitami Station's platform extends into Iwado-kita in Komae City. This neighborhood also crosses the city line to take in Iwado-kita, Iwado-minami and Higashinogawa, where most listings also cite Kitami Station. At Keiganji Temple in Iwado-kita stands the Shio Jizo; people once rubbed salt on the statue to pray for the removal of warts.
On the Kitami side, most properties aren't far from the station — 9-chome is 2 to 10 minutes away, and 8-chome is 3 minutes. In 2020, about 34,000 people lived in this neighborhood, two-thirds of them in Komae, roughly 136 per hectare.
Kitami Station used to be served only by Local trains, but since March 15, 2025, Semi Express trains stop there too.
For areas too far to walk to the station, residents rely on buses or bicycles to reach Komae Station, Seijo-Gakuen-mae Station, or Futako-Tamagawa Station.
Distances to the station vary a lot within this neighborhood: properties in Kitami 7-chome are 10 to 11 minutes away, while 4-chome ranges from 6 to 23 minutes. For public transit, it ranks 345th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for convenience of daily life it ranks 352nd — both toward the bottom.
Some parts of Kitami have poor drainage, and there have been flooding incidents from internal water inundation during heavy localized downpours. According to Setagaya City's flood records since 1989, most of Kitami's flooding has been in 3-chome, which is outside this neighborhood; within the neighborhood, Kitami 4-chome and 8-chome have only 3 records, the most recent in 2013.
The name Kitami appears in documents from the early 1300s written as Kidami; other spellings, all read Kitami, start appearing from the second half of the 16th century, but the origin of the name remains unknown to this day. During the medieval period, the Edo clan's main base was located in this area, and in the Edo period, the domain office of the short-lived Kitami Domain stood here for a time.
Kitami Station opened on April 1, 1927. In 1936, Kitami went from being an oaza of Kinuta Village to being part of Tokyo City, becoming a town name within Setagaya City.
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