The shopping centers, community hall and university hospital by Nagayama Station, with Suwa to the east and Nagayama to the south, the first Tama New Town estates people moved into in 1971
Nagayama Station is actually two stations side by side, Keio and Odakyu, built in a valley between hills. South of the station is the first shopping centre in the new town, home to a Seiyu supermarket; north of the station is Nippon Medical School's Tama Nagayama Hospital. Three pedestrian bridges extend from the roof of the shopping centre, connecting to walkways leading to the Suwa and Mahikizawa residential areas, the whole way without crossing a road. This area was the very first part of Tama New Town (a large residential development on the outskirts of Tokyo) to be settled, back in 1971.
From our street photos, greenery here ranks 13th out of Tokyo's 180 neighbourhoods, the best of the seven categories for this neighbourhood. Lots of green space has been kept between the housing blocks, and the streets are clean too, ranking 41st for cleanliness. In spring, the banks of the Kotta River north of the station become a path lined with cherry blossoms, stretching about 3km west all the way to Tama Center. Step out from the fourth floor of the shopping centre and you're right in front of the city's public hall and library.
Most of the danchi (large public housing complexes) here were built in the 1970s, so the buildings are ageing — this neighbourhood ranks 171st out of 180 for buildings, the weakest of the seven categories. There's a big hospital right by the station, but clinics and pharmacies on the street are scarce, ranking 169th for medical and pharmacy access. Housing up on the hills means walking up and down slopes to reach the station, so it's worth actually walking the route when you go to view a place.
"Nagayama" was originally a small place name within old Kotta, taken from two nearby hills, Kami-Nagayama and Shimo-Nagayama. For Mahikizawa, northeast of the station, one theory says the name comes from the mountain road to Kurokawa being so steep that travellers had to dismount and lead their horses by hand. In March 1971 the first residents moved into the danchi in Suwa and Nagayama, but the railway hadn't opened yet, so they had to take a bus or taxi to Seiseki-Sakuragaoka Station. In 1974 the Odakyu station opened first, with Keio following more than four months later. In 1977 the hospital opened as the new town's core hospital. In Suwa 2-chome, residents of a 640-unit danchi built in 1971 voted to rebuild the whole complex, and by 2013 it had become a new building with 1,249 units. Based on the number of units before rebuilding, this was Japan's largest apartment complex redevelopment as of 2011. The hospital had originally planned to relocate to Suwa 2-chome, but this was halted in 2024 due to funding problems, and in January 2026 talks resumed on rebuilding it in Nagayama instead. Since 2022, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government and Tama City have been reviewing redevelopment plans for the area around Nagayama Station; in December 2025, UR also added the Nagayama danchi to its redevelopment list, affecting 591 units.
Compared with the 180 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
124 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-04
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