Mornings, Jugo-dori fills with commuters and students; shops line the space under the tracks and the station building
In the mornings, commuters and students walking from Sasazuka 2-chome and 3-chome toward the station pack Jugo-dori shopping street. This street is the station-front shopping street of Sasazuka Station, running north from the Koshu-kaido intersection on the station's north side, bending into a hook shape partway along. The station itself is worth browsing too: there's a shopping street under the elevated tracks, and at the south exit, the 21-storey Merkmal Keio Sasazuka building, opened in 2015, has Frente Sasazuka, a mall of about 40 shops on 1F to 3F. The shopping area in front of the station even crosses the ward boundary, extending into Minamidai in Nakano Ward and the northern edge of Kitazawa in Setagaya Ward.
Sasazuka Station is served by both the Keio Line and the Keio New Line, and Keio New Line trains run through to the Toei Shinjuku Line. Since 2022, even Special Express trains stop here, and the neighborhood ranks 64th out of Tokyo's 193 neighborhoods for public transit, putting it in the upper tier. It ranks 89th for daily shopping, in the middle tier, with daily necessities mostly covered by the shopping street and the mall buildings in front of the station. Near the station, a few open-air stretches of the Tamagawa Josui (a waterway dug in 1653 to supply water to Edo) still remain, which is rare this far downstream; most of the rest has been covered over and turned into a greenway.
There are many narrow streets, and the area of densely packed wooden houses is large, so if a fire breaks out, the damage could easily spread, and securing evacuation routes could be difficult. National Route 20 (Koshu-kaido) runs east-west through the centre of Sasazuka, and the Sasazuka Odori shopping street lines it.
The place name Sasazuka comes from an ichirizuka (a mound marking distance beside the road) located one ri from Naito-Shinjuku along the Koshu-kaido; the mound was covered in thin bamboo grass (sasa), so it was called Sasazuka. The name Jugo-dori comes from the tenth bridge counting from Shinjuku along the new channel of the Tamagawa Josui. In 1913, Keio Electric Tramway opened the section between Sasazuka and Chofu, and Sasazuka Station was the terminus at the time. This area originally belonged to Hatagaya Village, and after being reorganized into Sasazuka 1-chome through 3-chome in 1960, it increasingly came to feel like an independent town. However, the main festival of Hatagaya Hikawa Shrine is still held in Sasazuka today. Between 1977 and 1978, the station was rebuilt on elevated tracks, and the Keio New Line opened, so between Shinjuku and Sasazuka there are now four tracks running in parallel.
Shibuya Ward is renovating, in stages, the six greenways along the former Tamagawa Josui channel. The section of the Sasazuka Greenway (Sasazuka Ryokudo) from Bridge No. 2 to Bridge No. 3 was completed in March 2025; among the sections for which the ward has announced completion dates, the last one is scheduled to finish in June 2027.
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71 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-12
Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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