A station with homes built right above the platform, and to the north the Maeyatsu River greenway, fed by spring water
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The station building at the south exit of Shimo-akatsuka Station is built over the platform, with shops below and housing above. This 1971 building was fully renovated in 2018 into rental apartments. The Maeyatsu River rises from a spring northwest of the station and flows north toward Takashimadaira; the whole course was culverted in 1984, and the top was turned into a greenway.
Kawagoe Kaido street outside the south exit runs right over Chikatetsu-akatsuka Station, where you can take the Fukutoshin Line via Shinjuku-sanchome to Shibuya with no transfer. The two stations are about 100 meters apart, but there's no transfer signage between them.
This neighborhood includes both stations together, extending into Nerima City's Kitamachi 8-chome, where Chikatetsu-akatsuka Station sits; about 40,000 people lived here as of 2020. Out the north exit is Akatsuka, at the northeast corner of the Musashino Plateau.
Daily shopping ranks 167th out of 395 shopping neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack, the strongest category for this neighborhood. There's a small supermarket inside the station building at the south exit, and another supermarket just outside the north exit.
Akatsuka-shinmachi is mostly residential, with a shopping street around Akatsuka Chuo-dori. There's a bus from the north exit to Takashimadaira, and Itabashi City's community bus also loops to Shin-takashimadaira Station.
Public transit ranks 307th out of 395 transit neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest category for this neighborhood. Shimo-akatsuka Station stops only Local trains, and Chikatetsu-akatsuka Station adds only Commuter Express. Based on our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 305th, also in the lower range.
Using points taken every 40 meters across the neighborhood on the Geospatial Information Authority's flood maps, about 15% of points fall within the flood-risk zone, mostly under 0.5 meters. In Nerima City's Kitamachi 8-chome, about 40% do, mostly 0.5 to 3 meters. Itabashi City's flood hazard map comes in an Arakawa overflow version and a smaller-rivers version.
Shimo-akatsuka is an old place name: six villages of Akatsuka Township merged into Akatsuka Village in 1889, and the side closer to the station was originally Shimo-akatsuka Town.
Shimo-akatsuka Station opened in 1930. The tunnel for the underground station was dug back in 1975, but it sat empty for eight years because the sections before and after it weren't finished, so it didn't open until 1983, as Eidan-akatsuka Station. The Eidan prefix was there to distinguish it from Shimo-akatsuka Station; it wasn't renamed Chikatetsu-akatsuka Station until 2004.
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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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