Farmland reclaimed in the Edo era, with Itsukaichi Kaido still running right through the middle
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One theory says the place name Miyamae simply means "in front of the gate of Kasuga Shrine". The shrine is said to have been brought here by Iguchi Hachiroemon, who reclaimed this shinden in the Edo period, and the neighboring Jikoji temple was founded by his third son; both stand along the Itsukaichi Kaido.
The shinden of that time spread out along both sides of the Itsukaichi Kaido, and today this street still runs east-west through the middle of the neighborhood, though no railway passes through it. In 2020 these five chome were home to about 19,000 people, about 156 per hectare. Many of the apartment buildings here are named directly "Suginami Miyamae".
From our street photos, buildings rank 161st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack, the highest ranking of any category for this neighborhood.
On real estate listing sites, the buildings in Miyamae are closest to Fujimigaoka, Kugayama, or Takaido on the Inokashira Line, or Nishi-Ogikubo or Ogikubo on JR lines, 8 to 18 minutes on foot.
There are two bus lines: the Kanto Bus Ogi 60 loops from the south exit of Ogikubo Station to Miyamae 3-chome, and the Naka 36 runs between Nakano Station and the north exit of Kichijoji Station.
There is no station in the neighborhood, and public transit ranks 328th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the lower part of the pack. The Shuku 44 bus, which ran directly to the west exit of Shinjuku Station, was discontinued in June 2025.
Daily shopping ranks 291st, also in the lower part of the pack. From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 357th, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
TidyMap calculated this from the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard maps, sampling one point roughly every 40 meters in the neighborhood: about 30% fall within a hazard zone, mostly under 0.5 meters; Miyamae 3-chome has the highest proportion, mostly 0.5 to 3 meters. For the flood depth at your own home, Suginami City Office asks residents to check the Tokyo Metropolitan Disaster Prevention App.
This land was reclaimed into shinden by Iguchi Hachiroemon during the Manji era (1658-61), and was called "Omiyamae Shinden". The shinden was divided into plots along both sides of today's Itsukaichi Kaido, each household's frontage being 20 ken (about 36 meters) wide and extending 250 ken back, with fields and woods behind the houses in that order.
A land survey was conducted in 1672, and the following year his third son founded Jikoji temple; the guardian Kasuga Shrine was also built around the same time.
In 1932, Suginami City was established, and this area was renamed Omiyamae 1 to 6-chome. In 1969, the residential address system was implemented, and the current Miyamae was defined centered on five of those chome.
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