Plateau residential area on the Kokubunji Escarpment, where old villas still look out over the greenery of the cliff line
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Life in Seta unfolds on the plateau along the Kokubunji escarpment. The Old Kosaka Residence in 4-chome was built in 1937 as a villa for House of Representatives member Kosaka Junzo; built on the plateau, every building there has a view of the escarpment's greenery.
The residence is now open to the public together with the surrounding Seta 4-chome Old Kosaka Green Space. The place name is also tied to the terrain: "Seta" comes from "seto," meaning a narrow valley; in the old days the area from the banks of the Tamagawa up to the plateau, with its many valleys, was called this.
In 2020 this neighborhood had a population of about 15,600, or about 142 people per hectare. There's no station here, so most listings on real estate sites have you walking to Yoga Station or Kaminoge Station, both outside the neighborhood.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 55th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking for this neighborhood; sidewalks, though, rank only 303rd, toward the bottom.
Which station gets listed depends on the chome. All 3 properties in 1-chome list Kaminoge Station, while all 8 in 4- and 5-chome list Yoga Station. Overall, 19 properties list Yoga Station with an 8- to 17-minute walk, 10 list Kaminoge Station with a 6- to 14-minute walk, and only 1 lists Futako-Tamagawa Station.
The City office groups Seta 1- through 5-chome together with Tamagawa 1- through 4-chome into the same Futako-Tamagawa district.
Public transit ranks 334th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and convenience of daily life ranks 311th, both toward the bottom.
Among the 30 properties on real estate sites, the walk to the nearest station ranges from 6 minutes at the shortest to 17 minutes at the longest.
Seta was originally a village. In 1889, Seta merged with the villages of Okusawa, Oyama, Todoroki, and others—8 villages in all—to form Tamagawa Village, becoming Oaza Seta within Tamagawa Village. In 1912, prefectural boundaries were redrawn, and the area on the right bank of the Tamagawa was incorporated into Kanagawa Prefecture.
Setagaya City was established in 1932, and the area north of the Marukogawa became Tamagawa Setamachi; it was only with the implementation of the residential address system from 1968 to 1971 that it was divided into today's Seta 1- through 5-chome.
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