Residential streets next to Jiyugaoka, where the torii at neighbouring Okusawa Shrine is wrapped in a giant straw snake
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Coming out of Okusawa Station, the first thing you see is the fountain plaza in front of the station. The plaza was created in 1972 when the station was rebuilt, given its name in 1992, and was even selected as one of the Setagaya 100 Views. Chome 1 and 2 are sandwiched between Okusawa, Midorigaoka, and Jiyugaoka stations.
At Okusawa Shrine, in neighboring Okusawa 5-chome (which belongs to the Jiyugaoka neighborhood), the torii gate is wrapped with a straw-woven giant snake. That snake was used the previous year in the annual festival's Daija Gyoretsu giant snake parade; every year when the festival begins, the shrine's parishioners carry a new snake out from the main hall.
The Okusawa shopping street is south of the station, and the City office's Okusawa Area Office is also near the station. In 2020 about 17,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 195 people per hectare.
The station itself is a bit special too: it's the only station on the Tokyu Meguro Line in Setagaya City, and also the southernmost station in the City.
Healthcare ranks 79th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood. Public transit ranks 147th, in the middle of the pack.
The nearest station differs by chome. Checking listings on HOME'S for 3-chome and 4-chome on October 21, 2026, almost all had Okusawa Station as the nearest station; for 1-chome and 2-chome, nearly half were listed with Midorigaoka Station in neighboring Meguro City as the nearest station.
Looking at elementary school districts, more than half of this neighborhood belongs to Okusawa Elementary School.
From our street photos, cleanliness ranks second from the bottom out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and sidewalks rank 386th, both in the lower range.
Buses are also few. As of April 2022, the Tokyu Bus in front of the station ran 5 buses a day to the Tokyo Medical Center and 6 to Tamagawa Station.
The name Okusawa is generally thought to come from looking upstream from the lower reaches of the Nomigawa river: the basin of its tributary, the Kuhombutsugawa, was a deep, secluded marshland, and later the character for deep (fuka) was dropped from the name. In 1889, it became Oaza Okusawa, a part of Tamagawa Village; after the 1970 residential address reform, the current 1-chome through 8-chome were established.
The station opened on March 11, 1923, but the north exit wasn't opened until 1935.
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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