An old residential district of the former Yamanote, where a baron's Western-style house and rose garden still stand
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Nishigahara sits on the Musashino Plateau at the southwest edge of Kita City, and was once an old Yamanote residential district. In the Meiji era it was convenient to both the Imperial Palace and Nihombashi, so elder statesmen, nobility, and businessmen came to build their residences here, and some of these later became gardens. Kyu Furukawa Gardens was originally the home of Baron Furukawa Toranosuke, laid out into its present form in 1919, with the Western-style house designed by architect Josiah Conder.
The whole garden was designated a National Place of Scenic Beauty in 2006. The rose garden has about 100 varieties and 199 rose bushes, about a 7-minute walk from Nishigahara Station.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 30th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking among this neighborhood's scores; street cleanliness ranks 57th, and public transit ranks 102nd, both also near the top.
Nishigahara Station sits beneath Hongo-dori, with about 9,014 passengers entering and exiting daily in fiscal 2025, the fewest of any Tokyo Metro station. Above ground, there's Kita City's K Bus.
Healthcare ranks 159th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and everyday shopping ranks 164th, both falling in the middle range—the two weaker scores in this neighborhood's convenience of living.
People settled on this plateau very early: a large-scale settlement appeared about 5,500 years ago, and from about 4,200 years ago the Nishigahara Shell Mound began forming. In the Edo period, the Nikko Onari-michi (today's Hongo-dori) ran through the middle of the area, with a milestone mound set up along the road, and Tokugawa Iemitsu also came here for falconry in 1641.
From the Meiji era through the Showa era, this area had research institutes and schools for forestry, sericulture, and agriculture. When the city tram's Asukayama Line was under construction in 1923, Shibusawa Eiichi and others launched a preservation movement, and the tracks were rerouted to go around the milestone mound. By 1991, when the Namboku Line was built running beneath the road surface, excavations before station construction unearthed many more remains from the Jomon and Yayoi periods.
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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