Rolling slopes of an old writers' village, where three cyclamen gardens still grow flowers
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Magome is a hilly area of ups and downs, and the two main roads—Dai-ni Keihin and Kan-nana—cut through the slopes, dividing the neighborhood into several sections. The area is known for growing cyclamen, and three cyclamen gardens are still in business today.
From the late Taisho era into the early Showa era, writers and artists moved into Magome one after another, and the area later came to be called Magome Bunshi-mura, the writers' village of Magome. Before that it was farmland, and it was only after Omori Station opened that it was developed into a villa district.
This neighborhood covers Kita-magome 2-chome, Higashi-magome 1- and 2-chome, Naka-magome 1- and 2-chome, and Minami-magome 1- and 2-chome. In 2020 about 28,000 people lived there, roughly 222 people per hectare.
Based on our street photos, public transit ranks 189th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and daily shopping ranks 192nd; both fall in the middle of the pack.
Magome Station has an underground island platform, where trains bound for Nishi-magome and Nakanobu board from the same platform. Exit A1 is right under the Matsubarabashi intersection, where Kan-nana and Dai-ni Keihin meet.
Heading toward Shinagawa, Haneda Airport, or Yokohama, you can transfer at Sengakuji to trains running through to the Keikyu line. Magome Library, in Naka-magome 2-chome within the neighborhood, has the Magome Bunshi-mura archive room, which collects materials on the writers of Magome.
Based on our street photos, sidewalks rank 324th and greenery ranks 334th, both toward the bottom.
TidyMap ran its own estimate, taking points roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood on the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard map (maximum assumed scale). Fewer than one in ten points fall within the flood-prone area, and almost all of those are under 0.5 meters. To check your own address, please use Ota City's hazard map.
Kawabata Yasunari, Uno Chiyo, Muro Saisei, Hagiwara Sakutaro, and Muraoka Hanako all lived in this area at one time. The bustle of the writers' village continued until around 1930, coming to an end when its central figure, Ozaki Shiro, temporarily left Magome.
Nearly forty years later, in November 1968, Magome Station on Toei Line 1 (now the Toei Asakusa Line) finally opened.
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Hospitals with inpatient beds (2020 data), public elementary and junior high schools whose catchment covers this area, high schools and universities within 1 km, stations, parks of 1 ha or more, and large shopping malls and department stores. Many Tokyo junior high students attend private schools, so junior high catchments are only a guide.
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