Pedestrian-priority shopping street by the station, car-free mornings and evenings, with quiet Keio-developed residential streets to the south
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Right outside the north exit of Nishi-eifuku Station is a shopping street that's closed to cars on weekday mornings and evenings. The street is narrow, and there are a lot of people shopping and heading to school during the day; next door, Eifukucho is an Express stop, and the railway crossing often stays down for a long time, making it hard for cars to pass each other here.
The south exit side is a subdivided residential area developed by Keio, with quiet residential streets stretching on. The wide roads in Eifuku 3-chome are laid out in a grid, the sidewalks have all been renovated, and each lot of land is also larger.
This neighborhood only covers Eifuku 3-chome, where the station is located, and Hamadayama 1-chome to the west; in 2020 about 8,200 people lived here, roughly 152 per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 33rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, near the top—the strongest point of this neighborhood.
Taking the Inokashira Line toward Shibuya, it's the 9th station, with no transfer needed on the same line; toward Shinjuku, you can transfer to the Keio Line at the 2nd station, Meidaimae. Nishi-eifuku is served only by Local trains; Eifukucho, where the Express stops, is 700 meters away; public transit ranks 132nd, in the middle.
The neighborhood is small, with only 35 street photo samples—just over the 30-sample threshold—so the rankings are for reference only. Daily shopping ranks 314th, and buildings rank 364th, both near the bottom; buildings are the weakest point of this neighborhood.
TidyMap used the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan's flood inundation hazard map, taking a point roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood to calculate this itself: about 30% fall within the projected flood zone, mostly under 0.5 meters, with some between 0.5 and 3 meters; Hamadayama 1-chome has a higher proportion.
The City Office asks residents to check their home's flood depth using the flood risk map in the Tokyo Bosai App.
The name Hamadayama is said to come from Hamadaya, a rice merchant in Naito-Shinjuku (today's Shinjuku) during the Edo period. Hamadaya had a grove of pine and sawtooth oak trees around what is now the Suginami Minami Post Office (to the north, outside this neighborhood); locals called the grove "yama," and "Hamadaya's yama" became the place name.
Hamadaya declined in the Meiji era, and its grave was moved to Rishoji in Eifuku. This temple was founded in 1654 at Yotsuya Okido, and only moved to its current location from Shinjuku in 1914, a 2-minute walk from Nishi-eifuku Station.
The station opened in 1933 as a station of the Teito Electric Railway. The north exit leading to the shopping street wasn't added until the station building was rebuilt as a bridge-type structure spanning the tracks in 2007.
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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