Sangubashi Station on the Odakyu Line, the Yoyogi residential blocks on the west side of Meiji Jingu and Yoyogi Park
Sangubashi is a small station on the Odakyu Line with a platform on each side of the tracks; the West Exit opens straight onto Platform 2, and the East Exit sits on the footbridge and takes IC cards only. The station sign says "the stop for Meiji Jingu", but Meiji Jingu and Yoyogi Park lie outside this neighbourhood to the east, in Yoyogi-Kamizonocho; this neighbourhood is the residential streets of Yoyogi 3-, 4- and 5-chome, with a few embassies scattered among them.
Public transport ranks 17th among Tokyo's 155 neighbourhoods, the strongest of this neighbourhood's scores. The station is only 1.5 kilometres from Shinjuku Station. Yoyogi 5-chome stretches west all the way to Yoyogi-Hachiman, the next stop on the Odakyu Line, and Yoyogi Hachimangu Shrine stands right by that station; its grounds still hold a reconstructed Jomon-period pit dwelling. In the same 5-chome, in front of No. 64, stands a monument to the song "Haru no Ogawa" ("The Brook in Spring"). On the Koshu-kaido side of 3-chome are Bunka Fashion College and Bunka Gakuen University.
Rapid express and other faster trains do not stop here, only locals. Yoyogi 4- and 5-chome are hilly, with most homes built on the higher ground, and around Sangubashi the Odakyu Line runs through a cutting. In our street photos, sidewalks rank 144th of the 155 neighbourhoods, the weakest score here. Everyday shopping ranks 126th. Clinics and pharmacies are also near the bottom, at 134th.
Shibuya Ward gives two explanations for the name Yoyogi: one is that villagers grew honey locust (saikachi) trees generation after generation, and the other points to a huge fir called the "Great Fir of Yoyogi" that once stood near the east gate of the Meiji Jingu inner garden, outside this neighbourhood. The fir had already died by the middle of the Meiji era, and in the May 1945 air raid it was struck by a falling B-29 and burned. In 1889 Yoyogi Village and Hatagaya Village merged into Yoyohata Village, which became part of Shibuya Ward in 1932. The Japanese literature scholar Takano Tatsuyuki lived in Yoyogi 3-chome from 1909, and according to Shibuya Ward he wrote the lyrics of the school song "Haru no Ogawa" with the Kohone River that flowed past here in mind. The Kohone River was covered over for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, but an opening is still visible where the Odakyu Line crosses it just south of Sangubashi Station. The station opened in 1927 and was renovated between 2018 and 2020 into its current timber-toned look. Yoyogi Hachimangu is said to have been founded in 1212, and Jomon-period remains were dug up in its grounds in 1950.
Compared with the 155 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
57 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-02
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