At the westernmost edge of the 23 wards, where vegetable fields still survive beside the Senkawa Josui
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Sekimachi-Minami is at the westernmost edge of Tokyo's 23 wards; further west is Nishitokyo City in the Tama area. The Senkawa Josui canal runs along the southern edge of 2-chome through 4-chome, and you can still see vegetable fields along its banks, keeping the look of Musashino.
Aside from suburban-type shops along Ome Kaido, this is mostly a residential area. Houses along the old road and large apartment complexes built on former farmland often sit in the same block.
Grocery shopping is concentrated in 4-chome, where Inageya, Seiyu, and drugstores are all located. In 2020 about 17,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 189 per hectare.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 68th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, which is in the top tier and this neighborhood's highest-ranking category; cleanliness ranks 132nd.
There's no station in this neighborhood, so 3-chome and 4-chome usually walk to Musashi-Seki Station to the north: on real estate listing sites, all 8 listings in 3-chome are marked as Musashi-Seki, and 3 of the 4 listings in 4-chome are too, with walks of 8 to 14 minutes. The City's Sekimachi area community hall also groups Sekimachi-Minami 3-chome and 4-chome together with Sekimachi-Kita.
There are buses to Kichijoji, with listings marking the ride at 7 to 13 minutes.
Public transit ranks 357th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, this neighborhood's weakest category; daily shopping ranks 304th, also in the lower tier.
2-chome is farther from the station: listings on real estate sites mark it as Musashi-Seki or Kichijoji, with walks of 14 to 23 minutes.
There are two theories about the name Sekimachi: one holds that in the late Muromachi period, when the Toshima clan held Shakujii Castle, a checkpoint (sekisho) was set up here; the other holds that there used to be a weir near Fujimi Pond.
In 1932 this area became Shakujii-Sekimachi, Itabashi City. From 1954 to 1957, the writer Matsumoto Seicho lived in what is now 2-chome, where he published Maifuku and began serializing Ten to Sen (Points and Lines). The current name Sekimachi-Minami only came about with the 1984 residential address reform.
An interchange is being built where Ome Kaido meets the Gaikan Expressway, and traffic in this area is expected to change once it opens.
Musashi-Seki Station to the north will also be rebuilt along with the elevation of the Seibu Shinjuku Line, with a new station plaza to be added. No completion year has been announced.
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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