A flea market running since 1751, with a spring-fed pond that's a popular cherry blossom spot
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Musashi-Seki Park on the west side of the neighborhood is about 4.6 hectares, and Fujimi Pond inside the park was formed by springs welling up from the Musashino Plateau. It's a notable cherry blossom spot in spring, you can go boating on the pond, and kingfishers sometimes stop by too.
On December 9 and 10, Honryu-ji Temple northwest of the station gets lively. The Seki no Boroichi flea market has been held since 1751, with over three hundred stalls set up, and it's designated as an intangible folk cultural property by Nerima City.
On regular days, the shopping street by the north exit has lots of clinics and restaurants, and you can buy most daily necessities there. Word of mouth says that once you're past the shopping street, it's a quiet residential area. In 2020, about 32,000 people lived in this neighborhood, about 172 people per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 238th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, making it the strongest category in this neighborhood.
You can shop for groceries on either side: there's a supermarket inside Emio Musashi-Seki, the station building on the north exit side, and on the south exit side there's a supermarket called Akidai, plus a Nerima City residents' center and a post office.
Musashi-Seki Station is a stop for Semi Express trains, while Express trains pass through during the day. Buses run from the south exit to Ogikubo and Mitaka, and the Musashi-Seki Station Entrance stop east of the station has a route to Kichijoji; all of these connect to the JR Chuo Line.
Architecture ranks 371st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, making it the weakest category in this neighborhood; sidewalks rank 326th, also toward the lower end.
Public transit ranks 234th, at the tail end of the middle range. The western edge of the neighborhood is actually closer to Higashi-Fushimi Station in Nishitokyo City outside the neighborhood: it's a 5-minute walk from Musashi-Seki Park to Higashi-Fushimi Station, but a 10-minute walk to Musashi-Seki Station.
There are two theories about the name Sekimachi: one says that in the late Muromachi period, when the Toshima clan was guarding Shakujii Castle, they set up a checkpoint (seki) here; the other says that there used to be a weir (seki) near Fujimi Pond.
That pond became Tokyo City's Musashi-Seki Park in 1938. In January 1978, Sekimachi-kita was split off from Sekimachi; in April the park was transferred to Nerima City; and in December, the station's north exit and station building finally opened.
On March 6, 2024, the continuous grade separation project for the Seibu Shinjuku Line began. Musashi-Seki Station will be elevated and converted to an island platform with 1 platform and 2 tracks, and a station plaza will be newly built.
On the west side of the station, a new north-south road connecting Shin-Ome Kaido and Ome Kaido will also be built. The materials don't announce a completion year.
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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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