The Tokiwaso apartments where Tezuka Osamu lived, recreated as a manga museum; Nishi-Ochiai's streets form a neat grid
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Minami-Nagasaki Hanasaki Park has the Tokiwaso Manga Museum, a building restored to look like the original, which opened in July 2020. The original Tokiwaso was in Minami-Nagasaki 3-chome, and Tezuka Osamu, Fujiko Fujio, Ishinomori Shotaro, and Akatsuka Fujio all lived there.
Nishi-Ochiai's streets are laid out in a neat grid, a legacy of farmland consolidation pushed by local residents from 1925 to 1936. After the consolidation, each road was given its own name, like Aoyagi-dori, Nanakusa-dori, and Wakaba-dori. In 2009, Shinjuku City officially recognized 31 of these street names in Nishi-Ochiai (including 4-chome, which is outside this neighborhood) as common road names.
Except along the main roads, all of Nishi-Ochiai 3-chome is zoned as Category 1 Low-rise Exclusive Residential District, with the lowest building coverage ratio and floor area ratio in Shinjuku City. In 1996, the streets of 3-chome were chosen as a model area prioritizing pedestrians over cars. Since 2014, 3-chome has also been designated a Zone 30, with a speed limit of 30 km/h.
The station name Ochiai-Minami-Nagasaki combines Nishi-Ochiai on the Shinjuku City side with Minami-Nagasaki on the Toshima City side.
Public transit ranks 107th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest category for this neighborhood, landing at the tail end of the top tier. Daily shopping ranks 108th, also in the middle tier.
Exit A3 of Ochiai-Minami-Nagasaki Station connects directly to the i Terrace Ochiai-Minami-Nagasaki commercial facility. Minami-Nagasaki Sports Park in Minami-Nagasaki 4-chome has a sports center, a soccer field, a lawn plaza, and a shallow wading pool.
Healthcare ranks 170th, landing in the middle tier. Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 329th, the weakest of the four street-photo categories; greenery ranks 315th and buildings rank 266th, both also in the lower tier. Higashi-Nagasaki Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line is outside this neighborhood, about a 7-minute walk from Ochiai-Minami-Nagasaki Station.
Nishi-Ochiai was formerly called Kuzuya, a place name that already appears in documents from 1559. It was only with the implementation of the residential address system in 1965 that it became today's Nishi-Ochiai 1 through 4-chome.
On the Toshima City side, from 1939 the district around Minami-Nagasaki was named Shiinamachi. In 1952, the two-story wooden apartment building Tokiwaso was built in Minami-Nagasaki 3-chome; Tezuka Osamu moved in at the start of 1953, and at its peak, seven to eight manga artists lived there together.
Before 1966, most of Shiinamachi was renamed Minami-Nagasaki, with the old name surviving only in the names of the station and the elementary school. Tokiwaso was demolished in 1982.
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