Rokucho, a new town that grew up after the station opened in 2005, with a green-roofed museum of Japanese painting
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Tsukuba Express's Rokucho Station is an underground station that opened in 2005, and right in front of Exit A1 is a bus plaza. Tobu Bus runs from here to Takenotsuka Station East Exit, Kita-Senju Station, Ayase Station, and Kita-ayase Station. In front of the station there's a Life supermarket and the Adachi Rokucho Post Office, and daily life unfolds from this exit.
Southwest of the station is Rokucho Museum Flora, whose roof is mostly covered in greenery; it holds a collection of about 350 works, mainly Japanese paintings, and holds exhibitions themed around the four seasons.
On real estate websites, listings in Rokucho 1-chome to 4-chome are almost all listed under Rokucho Station, a 1- to 9-minute walk; all 30 listings in Nishi-Kahei 1-chome and 2-chome are listed under Rokucho Station too, a 5- to 11-minute walk.
Further out, listings in Hitotsuya and Hozuka-cho are also listed under Rokucho Station, but it's a 7- to 19-minute walk. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 117 residents per hectare.
From our street photos, buildings rank 132nd among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood.
Commuting here depends entirely on this one Tsukuba Express station: all Local trains stop, there's a Commuter Rapid in the evening outbound on weekdays, and a Section Rapid stops during the morning inbound peak. Since 2020, the number of trains stopping at Rokucho during the most crowded morning window increased from 29 to 42; the next station toward Kita-Senju is Aoi Station.
In Higashi-Hokima 2-chome there's the Adachi City General Sports Center, and buses from Takenotsuka to Rokucho pass by it.
Public transit ranks 263rd among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, a lower-ranking category for this neighborhood; greenery ranks 333rd, also toward the lower end.
The station sits deep underground; getting from street level to the platform takes 4 escalator transfers, or 2 elevator rides. It's about a 20-minute walk to the Chiyoda Line's Kita-ayase Station, though buses are also available.
Rokucho was originally exclave land belonging to the villages of Rokugatsu, Takenotsuka, Hokima, and Hanamata, cultivated by their second and third sons, making it a relatively new town. During the Edo period, the surrounding villages rushed to cultivate land along the newly opened Ayase River, so exclaves ended up nested within exclaves.
Because there are no old temples or shrines here, it's said that many residents' family temples are still in the villages their ancestors came from. Rokucho Station opened on August 24, 2005, and large-scale land readjustment followed, reshaping the neighborhood block by block.
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