A station named after Nitta Shrine; past the shopping street, homes and small workshops sit side by side
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Around Musashi-nitta Station are the Musashi-nitta Shopping Association, several supermarkets, and the Ota City Yaguchi Branch Office (a branch of the city office). The area in front of the station and the shopping street is zoned as a neighborhood commercial district, while most of the area further out is zoned as a quasi-industrial district, with houses and small-to-medium factories mixed together.
Nitta Shrine near the station is the origin of the station's name. There are stations elsewhere also called "Nitta," so Musashi, the old province name, was added in front to tell them apart.
From the station front, there's Ota City's community bus, the Tama-chan Bus, and buses to Haneda Airport. The regular Tokyu Bus route stops at the "Ikegami 8-chome" stop about 300 meters to the east.
This neighborhood covers Yaguchi 1-chome and 2-chome and Shimomaruko 1-chome and 2-chome in Ota City, with a population of about 25,000 in 2020. Shimomaruko 1-chome and 2-chome share the same town name as Shimomaruko Station, but the station itself is in Shimomaruko 3-chome, which belongs to the neighboring Shimomaruko neighborhood.
The highest-ranked category for this neighborhood is public transit, which ranks 256th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, though that's still toward the bottom. Daily shopping ranks 277th, and medical care and pharmacies rank 280th, also toward the bottom.
The station is a ground-level station with no overpass; each of the up and down platforms has its own ticket gate, so you cannot switch sides after entering. The next station toward Tamagawa is Shimomaruko, and toward Kamata is Yaguchinowatashi.
Cleanliness ranks 386th, the weakest category in this neighborhood; sidewalks rank 383rd, also 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. About 94% of the points fall within areas expected to flood, mostly between 0.5 and 3 meters; about 20% are above 3 meters, mostly in Shimomaruko 1-chome and 2-chome.
For your specific location, please check Ota City's hazard map.
Nitta Shrine enshrines Nitta Yoshioki, who was killed at Yaguchi no Watashi on the Tamagawa River on October 10, 1358; nearby residents built a shrine before his grave. The mound within the grounds, called Otsuka, is said to be the round burial mound where his remains were interred. The shrine's annual festival is also set on October 10, the very day Yoshioki was killed.
In 1770, the joruri puppet play "Shinrei Yaguchi no Watashi," based on this story, was performed to great popularity, and the number of visitors coming to pay their respects increased accordingly. When the station opened in 1923 it was called "Nitta Station"; it wasn't until 1924 that Musashi was added to give it its current name.
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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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