Three shopping streets either side of the station exit, and the old railway line turned into a greenway
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Right outside Nishi-Koyama Station, shopping streets line both sides: Nishi-Koyama Patio, Nikoma-dori, and Niko Niko-dori, with a residential area beyond them. Next to the station are a Summit Store and a Gyomu Super, and 2F of the station building houses a Tokyu Store. The station moved underground in 2006, and the site of the old tracks became the Nishi-Koyama Greenway.
The west side of the station is the boundary between Shinagawa City and Meguro City. This neighborhood spans both cities: on the Shinagawa side it's Koyama 6-chome and Ebara 5-chome and 7-chome, and on the Meguro side it's Haramachi 1-chome, Himonya 1-chome, and Meguro Honcho 6-chome.
In 2020, about 21,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 255 people per hectare.
From our street photos, buildings rank 89th out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood.
On real-estate listing pages, all 11 buildings in Haramachi 1-chome list Nishi-Koyama Station as their nearest station, a 1- to 6-minute walk. On the Shinagawa side, in Koyama 6-chome, the 4 buildings on listing pages also all list Nishi-Koyama Station.
About 31,000 people pass through this station each day, more than some stations where Express trains stop, but Express trains do not stop here.
Public transit ranks 284th out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, and convenience of daily life ranks 252nd, both toward the lower end. There are no bus routes in front of or near the station; to catch a bus you have to walk to the neighboring Musashi-Koyama Station or Senzoku Station.
Meguro City's neighborhood-development page states that old wooden houses are densely packed around Nishi-Koyama Station, and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's earthquake risk assessment rates the area as high risk.
The place name Koyama first appears in a shuinjo (vermilion-seal land grant) from 1625, written as Koyama Village. The mainstream account says it comes from Koyama Hachiman Shrine, built on a small hill.
Nishi-Koyama Station opened in 1928, and in the same year the area along the Tachiaigawa was also approved to establish a sangyochi (a licensed district for ryotei restaurants and geisha performances), which opened in 1929. The former site of the sangyochi is now a row of cherry trees on the north side of the station.
The station was built in a low-lying spot along the Tachiaigawa, and in its at-grade era the roadbed was raised to make it an elevated station. It became an underground station in 2006, and the station building was completed in 2008.
Meguro City's "Nishi-Koyama Neighborhood Development Plan" was established in March 2014 and revised in April 2023. The city planning road known as Hojo No. 46 (Auxiliary Line No. 46) has officially begun construction, and streetscape improvements are underway along the route in Haramachi 1-chome and the neighboring Senzoku 1-chome.
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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