The heart of Komae: the bamboo grove, fountain and city hall by Komae Station's north exit, and shops and homes toward Setagaya-dori to the south
Through the ticket gates at Komae Station's north exit, you step out at street level straight onto the station roundabout, with a fountain in one corner. Beside the roundabout, the Ecorma building houses the city's Ecorma Hall, a 728-seat theatre. Behind the roundabout is a large stand of woods, green space preserved together with Senryu-ji Temple and Benzaiten-ike Pond, and you can see its bamboo grove from the north exit plaza. Out of the south exit there is a post office, and beyond it the road meets Setagaya-dori.
Cleanliness ranks 27th of Tokyo's 167 neighbourhoods, and in our street photos the streets are well kept. Greenery ranks 36th, helped by 2.1 hectares of preserved green space right beside the station. This is the centre of Komae City: the city hall and the central library are both on the north exit side, so paperwork and borrowing books are close at hand.
Everyday shopping ranks only 129th; the area around the station is so densely built up with homes that a large shopping centre has never been possible, and people rely on the Odakyu OX supermarket and the Odakyu Marche under the elevated tracks. Medical and pharmacy access ranks 118th, also in the bottom third of the 167 neighbourhoods. Odakyu Line Rapid Express and Express trains do not stop at Komae; only Semi Express and Local trains do. Looking at Komae City as a whole, the roads south of the Odakyu Line are more winding and less orderly than those to the north.
"Komae" comes from Komae-go, an ancient place name, and there are several theories about its origin. Large numbers of burial mounds were built here in the 5th and 6th centuries; one account says there were once about 70, known as the Komae Hyakuzuka, and 13 survive today. The place name "Izumi" (spring) comes from Benzaiten-ike Pond. Legend has it that in the Nara period Roben, the monk who founded Todai-ji, prayed for rain here and a spring burst out of the ground. The spring ran dry in 1972, and the pond is now kept full from a bored well. Senryu-ji is also said to have been founded by Roben. From 1872 the village's public primary school used the temple's buildings as its schoolhouse, and it later became Komae No. 1 Elementary School. In 1927 Odakyu at first planned only one station here, Tamagawa, close to the river, which the villagers felt was too far from the village centre. In the end the villagers raised money, bought land and donated it to the railway company, and that is how Komae Station came about. In 1970 the town of Komae became Komae City.
Compared with the 167 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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