Writer Tokutomi Roka's former home became a park, and the station was renamed Roka-Koen after it
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About a 5-minute walk from the south exit of Roka-Koen Station is the Setagaya Literary Museum, opened in 1995 as the first modern comprehensive literary museum in Tokyo's 23 wards. About a 15-minute walk from the station brings you to Roka Koshun-en Park.
The writer Tokutomi Roka moved here from Aoyama in 1907 and named his residence "Koshun-en"; in 1937 his family donated the land and house, and the following year it opened as a park, which is now always open and free to enter.
The station itself is a small stop on the Keio Line, where only Local trains stop—Special Express and Express trains both pass straight through. In 2020, about 32,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 199 people per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 51st out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, in the top tier; cleanliness ranks 160th, in the middle tier.
Housing starts right in front of the station: properties in Minami-Karasuyama 2-chome and 3-chome are all listed under Roka-Koen Station, a 1- to 5-minute walk. Of 10 buildings in 1-chome, 7 are listed under Roka-Koen, and the other 3 are listed under Hachimanyama Station.
Special Express and Express trains stop at Chitose-Karasuyama Station, one stop to the west, 0.8 kilometers away. At that station, every type of train stops except two types of reserved-seat trains.
From our street photos, buildings rank 239th out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, in the bottom tier. Convenience of daily life ranks 188th, in the middle tier. There's a Summit supermarket in front of the station, and a Don Quijote along Kanpachi Avenue.
Kita-Karasuyama 1-chome, in the north of the neighborhood, is farther from the station—on CHINTAI, 4 buildings are listed as an 8- to 10-minute walk to Roka-Koen Station.
When Roka-Koen Station opened in 1913, it was called "Kami-Takaido Station," because the station stood next to Kami-Takaido in Takaido Village. On September 1, 1937, it was renamed to its current name, after the nearby former residence of Roka.
In February of that same year, Roka's family donated Koshun-en, and the park opened on February 27, 1938.
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