A row of old shops by the Komaba campus of the University of Tokyo, with a Meiji-era rice paddy still remaining in the park
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Komaba-Todaimae Station is right next to the University of Tokyo's Komaba Campus. South of the station there's an old shopping street running east-west, lower in elevation than the Todai campus, that locals call "Komashita". The street is mostly small individually-owned shops, along with set-meal restaurants and bento shops catering to students.
South of the station is Komabano Park, which opened in 1986. The park still has a rice paddy left over from the days when Oscar Kellner, hired as a teacher at the Komaba Agricultural School in the Meiji era, used it for practical training; today it's tended by students from the University of Tsukuba Komaba Junior and Senior High School nearby. In summer, children often come here to catch crayfish.
The campus, the rice paddy, and the park all connect because this area went from being the shogunate's falconry grounds in the Edo period all the way to becoming a district of education and research.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 58th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest category for this neighborhood; cleanliness ranks 114th, also near the top.
About 7 minutes on foot from the west exit is the Japan Folk Crafts Museum, founded in 1936 by Yanagi Soetsu. Next door, Komaba Park was originally the residence of Marquis Maeda Toshinari; part of the Western-style building is open to the public for free.
This neighborhood houses only about 81 people per hectare, because a lot of the land is taken up by the Todai campus and parks. Chome 3, where Todai is located, has only 853 residents; most people live in Chome 1, which has 4,254.
Healthcare ranks 338th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood. Public transit ranks 139th, in the middle of the pack.
The station is also crowded: during the morning rush, it can sometimes take more than 5 minutes just to get from getting off the train to exiting the ticket gates. Chome 4 is farther from the station; of 15 properties, 10 list Higashi-Kitazawa Station outside this neighborhood, a 5-to-11-minute walk away.
In the Edo period, Komaba was the shogunate's falconry grounds, known as Komabano. In 1867, the shogunate planned to expand the falconry grounds into a drill ground reaching into neighboring villages; farmers rose up in opposition (the Komabano Uprising), and the plan never went through.
After the Meiji era began, the government cleared this open land and established the Komaba Agricultural School there; research and educational institutions moved in one after another from then on. The rice paddy in today's Komabano Park is what's left over from the agricultural school era.
The station is actually a merger of two stations: Higashi-Komaba and Nishi-Komaba, both opened in 1933, each of which had its name changed, before they were finally merged in 1965 into what is now Komaba-Todaimae Station.
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