A quiet residential grid with a cherry-blossom avenue running through it, crossing the prefectural border into Saitama
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Oizumi-gakuen Dori runs north-south through the entire town, and the cherry trees lining the street are the symbol of this road. The residential streets on both sides have many street trees and parks, making it a quiet residential area.
The sixth to eighth chome on the north side form a grid-pattern scenic district residential area that extends all the way to Niiza City in Saitama Prefecture. The prefectural border cuts diagonally through the area, and homes in Tokyo and Saitama are often right next to each other.
In 2020, about 34,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 118 per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 175th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and buildings rank 141st, both in the middle of the pack, the two highest-ranked items for this neighborhood.
The town has the Nagakubo bus turnaround, so bus service is frequent. Seibu Bus routes Izumi 33, 34, and 37 run from the north exit of Oizumi-gakuen Station via Nagakubo to the south exit of Narimasu Station; there are also routes on Gakuen Dori heading to Kichijoji and Asagaya.
Nerima City's community bus, the Oizumi route, runs from the north exit of Oizumi-gakuen Station, loops through the fifth chome, and returns to the station, with 25 trips a day on weekdays.
There's no railway in the town, and the nearest station, Oizumi-gakuen, is over 1 kilometer away. The City office also notes that an area like this, more than 1 kilometer from a station with no rail service nearby, is rare among the 23 wards. Public transit ranks third from the bottom out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest item for this neighborhood.
Most listings on real estate websites are marked relative to Oizumi-gakuen Station: a 10 to 23 minute walk for the first to third chome, 27 minutes for the fifth chome, and the sixth to eighth chome are marked as requiring a bus.
The small Izumi 38 bus route, which runs into the town's narrow streets, also stopped operating at the end of March 2025 due to aging vehicles and a driver shortage.
In 1924, Hakone Land Company began developing this area as a gakuen toshi (academic town), intending to bring in schools such as the Tokyo Higher Normal School as its core. The schools never came, but the area was still developed and sold off as residential land, and the name and grid-pattern streets remained as they were.
In 1932, several small districts of the former Oizumi Village merged to form Oizumi-gakuencho. In 1982, the implementation of the residential address system divided it into the current first to ninth chome.
Nerima City is pushing to extend the Toei Oedo Line from Hikarigaoka Station, with Oizumi-gakuencho Station (tentative name) being one of three new stations planned in the City.
According to the review status announced by the Tokyo Metropolitan Government in October 2025, the opening is assumed to be around 2040, on the condition that the City covers costs and assists with railway facility development.
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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