Kugayama Station on the Keio Inokashira Line and the banks of the Kanda River, a green residential pocket at Suginami's western edge
Kugayama Station's building sits above the tracks, with exits on the north and south sides. Step out of the South Exit and the Kanda River is right in front of you; Kugayama Bridge doubles as the station plaza, and Hitomi-kaido runs past. The station's address is in Kugayama 4-chome, and this neighbourhood covers Kugayama 2- to 5-chome around the station.
Greenery ranks 22nd among Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods, the strongest of this neighbourhood's scores. Along the Tamagawa Aqueduct, unpaved earth paths still run on both banks, often described as a rare piece of the original Musashino landscape within Tokyo's 23 wards. Express trains on the Inokashira Line stop at Kugayama. At Kugayama Inari Shrine in 3-chome, the summer festival on July 24 each year offers "Yunohana Kagura": water is boiled in a large cauldron and sprinkled with small bamboo branches, a ritual Suginami Ward describes as very rare within the ward.
Everyday shopping ranks 150th of the 155 neighbourhoods, close to the bottom. This ranking is based on the walking distance from each block to the nearest shops; the shops are concentrated in the shopping streets at the station's north and south exits, so homes further from the station have a longer walk. Everyday convenience ranks 146th. In our street photos, buildings rank 137th.
Where the name Kugayama comes from is unclear: Suginami Ward's place-name records say only that it is an old village name, and that in the Edo period it was already a village in the Nogata domain of Tama District. Wikipedia's explanation is that "kuga" means unused land, and the name is thought to mean newly cleared land on the Musashino plain. The Kanda River and the Tamagawa Aqueduct flowed west to east along the village's southern and northern edges, with rolling hills in between and a road called the Edo-michi running through the middle of the village. Kugayama Inari Shrine in 3-chome has no known founding date, but has been the guardian shrine of Kugayama Village since ancient times. When the area joined the City of Tokyo as part of Suginami Ward in 1932, Kugayama was split into 1- to 3-chome, and it became today's 1- to 5-chome after the current address system was introduced. The station was opened in August 1933 by the Teito Electric Railway.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods 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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