Okamoto: the old garden of the Mitsubishi Iwasaki family grown into a wood, its spring water named among Tokyo's 57 famous springs
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Okamoto is a residential area beside the Kokubunji escarpment. The Seikado Green Space in 2-chome was originally the garden of the Mitsubishi Iwasaki family; for over forty years after the war almost no one touched it, and the broadleaf evergreen forest grew up just like that.
The spring water in the green space was even selected as one of the "57 Famous Springs of Tokyo". Also in 2-chome, Okamoto Park Minka-en opened in 1980; it relocated the Former Nagasaki Family Residence, the City's Cultural Property No. 1, to recreate an early-Showa farmhouse, and admission is free.
In 2020 this neighborhood had a population of about 8,565, or about 114 people per hectare. There is no train station within the town area; for everyday use people rely on buses, or walk to Yoga Station or Futako-Tamagawa Station outside the neighborhood.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 35th out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, and greenery ranks 54th; both are in the top tier.
The buses are Tokyu Bus routes departing from Futako-Tamagawa Station: the Tama 30 to Tamagawa Hospital and the Tama 31 to Seijo-Gakuen-mae Station, both stopping at "Minka-en". On real estate listing pages, of 30 properties, 17 are listed under Yoga Station, 10 under Futako-Tamagawa Station, and 3 under Seijo-Gakuen-mae Station.
Okamoto 1-chome to 3-chome belong to the Kinuta area as designated by the City office.
Convenience of daily life ranks last out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, and public transit ranks 387th; both are in the bottom tier.
Among the 30 properties on real estate listing pages, even the closest to a station is a 13-minute walk, and the farthest is 29 minutes; not one is within 10 minutes. Walking from Minka-en to Futako-Tamagawa Station takes about 20 minutes, according to the City office.
The name Okamoto first appears in documents related to the 1597 digging of the Rokugo Canal. In 1889 it became an oaza (district) of Kinuta Village; in 1936 it became Okamoto-cho in Setagaya City; and in 1968, with the implementation of the residential address system, today's Okamoto 1-chome to 3-chome came into being.
From the late Meiji era onward, many villas belonging to political and business figures were built along the Kokubunji escarpment, and Okamoto had villas of figures such as Iwasaki Koyata, Ayukawa Yoshisuke, and Takahashi Korekiyo. The Iwasaki family's garden is today's Seikado Green Space.
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