A residential area beside the National Nishigaoka Football Stadium, with a spring and paddy field in the valley park
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Akabane Nature Observation Park in Akabanenishi 5-chome sits in a valley, with a spring inside and a small patch of rice paddy. It's about a 13-minute walk from Motohasunuma Station. The former US military land in Nishigaoka 3-chome is now home to the National Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium and the National Training Center.
Nishigaoka 1-chome was planned before the war as a navy housing district, with blocks laid out in a cross shape and cherry trees lining the streets.
This neighborhood spans two cities: Hasunuma-cho, Ohara-cho, and Izumi-cho in Itabashi City, plus Nishigaoka 1- and 3-chome, Akabanenishi 5- and 6-chome, and Kirigaoka 1-chome in Kita City. Listings on the Kita City side—Nishigaoka 1- and 3-chome, Akabanenishi 6-chome—are also often marked as near Motohasunuma Station. In 2020, about 30,000 people lived here, roughly 174 people per hectare.
Heading south on the Mita Line, you can transfer to the JR Yamanote Line at the 5th stop, Sugamo, and Otemachi is a direct ride with no transfer.
There's a supermarket in front of the station, and for everyday shopping this neighborhood ranks 238th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, landing in the middle.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 132nd, the strongest category in this neighborhood.
This neighborhood's official score is based on only 30 street photo squares, just barely meeting the threshold for being counted as a neighborhood, so the rankings are for reference only. From our street photos, buildings rank 376th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the lower range, the weakest category in this neighborhood.
Public transit ranks 266th, also in the lower range. From Kirigaoka 1-chome, it's about a 20-minute walk to any station, but there are frequent buses to Akabane Station's west exit.
Based on our own calculations using points taken every 40 meters within the neighborhood on the Geospatial Information Authority's flood maps, under 20% of the points fall within the flood-risk zone, and almost all of those are under 0.5 meters. Both Kita City and Itabashi City have hazard maps for water-related disaster risk.
Starting in 1905, the army built a shooting range and weapons supply depot in the Nishigaoka area over time. After the war it was taken over by the US military, and wasn't returned until 1958.
After the return, Kita City pushed to use it as a subway train yard, but in 1969 the national government decided to allocate it as National Stadium land, which is today's Nishigaoka Soccer Stadium. In 1973, the neighboring Self-Defense Forces land was also planned to become a Namboku Line train yard, but this was dropped after resident opposition, and in 1999 it became Akabane Nature Observation Park.
The station's name also went through a twist: it was originally tentatively called Hasunuma, but since the Tokyu Ikegami Line already had a Hasunuma Station, it was changed instead to use the pre-1961 place name Shimura-Motohasunuma-cho.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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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