Step off a small elevated station straight into a park, where Mitsubishi's old factory has become the residents' backyard
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Shimo-Shinmei Station is a small elevated station on the Tokyu Oimachi Line, and Shinagawa Chuo Park is right outside the exit. Most of this park used to be a Mitsubishi Materials factory; it opened in 2003, admission is free, and it's mainly used by nearby residents.
This station averages only 9,726 passengers a day (fiscal 2025), busier only than Kitasenzoku Station on the Oimachi Line. The low numbers are probably because it's only about a 10-minute walk to Oimachi Station.
In 2020 about 17,000 people lived in this neighborhood, about 224 per hectare.
On real estate listing sites, Futaba 1-chome has 194 listings total, and among the first 30 visible, the nearest station for every one is Shimo-Shinmei Station, a 1- to 6-minute walk. In Toyomachi 2-chome, 29 of the 30 visible listings are marked as Shimo-Shinmei Station, a 2- to 7-minute walk.
For convenience, it ranks 175th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for public transit it ranks 153rd, both in the middle range.
There are 6 shopping streets and shopping associations around the station. Paperwork is also close by—it's about a 5-minute walk from Shimo-Shinmei Station to the Shinagawa City Office outside the neighborhood.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks last out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the weakest point for this neighborhood; greenery ranks 385th, also toward the lower end. This is based on the street photos we sampled, and doesn't represent every alley.
Nishi-Shinagawa 1-chome and 2-chome have a history of flooding: in the torrential rain of August 29, 1999, more than 200 homes in Nishi-Shinagawa 1- to 3-chome took in water. Between 2002 and 2009, 1-chome and 2-chome flooded again several times in heavy rain.
On July 6, 1927, this station opened under the name Togoshi Station, and on January 1, 1936 it was renamed Shimo-Shinmei Station.
The park next to the station was partly the City-run Trim Park, which opened in 1981; in 2003 it was combined with the old factory site to form Shinagawa Chuo Park, and an expansion completed in 2017 added a helipad and a disaster-prevention warehouse.
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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