A quiet residential area that only got a station in 2009, with a 7th-century burial mound tucked away in its back streets
Nishifu is a quiet residential area; the station only opened in 2009, making it the newest station on the Nambu Line (excluding branch lines). Because the station is new, the area in front of the station is neatly laid out, with no large shopping centres or busy nightlife strips — the building in front of the station houses clinics like a pediatrician's. Walking about 8 minutes from the station, tucked among the houses is a 7th-century kofun (ancient burial mound).
This kofun sits within the grounds of Kumano Shrine, built in three tiers as a tomb with a round top and square base: the bottom two tiers are square, the top tier is round, and the first tier has sides 32 metres long. Among round-on-square tombs confirmed by excavation to have stone-paved mounds, it is the oldest in Japan. The exhibition hall next to it is open 9:00 to 17:00 from April to October, and 10:00 to 16:00 from November to March, closed on Mondays. The exhibition hall has no parking lot, so you need to walk or take a bus there. Back at the station, the Nambu Line takes about 10 minutes to Tachikawa, and about 40 minutes to Kawasaki.
There are no large commercial facilities in front of the station; for everyday shopping, it ranks 208th out of 219 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for shopping you can go one stop over to Bubaigawara. It ranks 145th for greenery, placing it in the middle range.
The kofun was built between the mid and late 7th century. In 1990, when the shrine wanted to build a storage shed for its dashi (festival float), an excavation survey was carried out first. In 2003 it was confirmed to be a round-on-square tomb, in 2005 it was designated a National Historic Site, and the exhibition hall opened in 2011. Before the war, Nambu Railway had set up two stops in this area, Honjuku and Nishifu, but these were abolished in 1944 when the line was nationalized, due to low ridership and wartime pressures. Re-establishing the station later depended on a land readjustment association jointly formed by local landowners: a preparatory committee was set up in 1995, and in 1997 JR responded with the conditions for setting up a station. In 2004, JR, Fuchu City, and the association signed a memorandum on establishing the station, and Nishifu Station opened in 2009. The readjustment area measures about 440 metres east-west, with its southern edge bordered by the Fuchu escarpment, a 10-metre drop. In 2013, the land exchange disposition was announced and the town names and lot numbers were changed accordingly; in May 2014 the association was dissolved, and the entire land readjustment was thus completed.
Compared with the 219 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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