An elementary school sits in the middle of the shopping street, and the old cinema by the station still screens on film
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The shopping street in front of Shimo-takaido Station hides an elementary school: Matsuzawa Elementary School sits right in the middle of the shopping street, which is rare even in Setagaya City. The shops selling fish, meat, and vegetables have so much merchandise it looks like it's spilling out the front; the autumn music festival also borrows this school as its venue.
The Shimo-takaido Cinema next to the station opened in the first half of the Showa 30s, and still uses film projectors today.
This neighborhood covers Matsubara 3-chome and Akatsutsumi 4- and 5-chome in Setagaya City. North of the station, Shimo-takaido 1- to 4-chome in Suginami City mostly use Sakurajosui Station for daily life, and belong to the neighboring Sakurajosui neighborhood. In 2020, about 13,000 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 219 per hectare.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 162nd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack. The shopping street is right in front of the station, so you don't have to go far to buy groceries.
On the Keio Line, Meidaimae is one stop east and Sakurajosui is one stop west, each 0.9 kilometers away; the next stop on the Setagaya Line is Matsubara Station. Looking at our street photos, greenery ranks 244th, in the middle of the pack. Akamatsu Park next to Matsubara Station has an ecological pond and a ball-play plaza, and was completely renovated in fiscal 2018 to 2019.
Looking at our street photos, sidewalks rank 391st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest point of this neighborhood. Many bicycles cut through the shopping street, cars also drive into the narrow roads, and utility poles make the sidewalks even narrower.
Based on the Geospatial Information Authority's flood inundation hazard map, TidyMap calculated a point roughly every 40 meters within the neighborhood: about 20% fall within the hazard area, mostly under 0.5 meters; Akatsutsumi 4-chome is highest, at nearly 30%.
The work to elevate the Keio Line between Sasazuka and Sengawa is currently underway, and the area near Shimo-takaido Station is construction zone 3.
The market in front of the station got its start in the early Showa era: after the Great Kanto Earthquake, the population grew, and shops followed, so a fresh food market appeared this way. In 1956, the market officially opened, and has been a symbol of the neighborhood in front of the station ever since.
By autumn 2023, the market was already scheduled to close the following March.
The goal for the Keio Line elevation project is completion in fiscal 2030, with the project period running through the end of March 2031.
The site where the market stands is planned to become a station-front plaza; when the council compiled the current situation, there was still no plan for a replacement site or replacement function for the market.
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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