A woodland where the shogun once hunted with falcons, now a park wrapped on three sides by the Egota River
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Egota-no-Mori Park, west of the station, covers about 6 hectares and is bordered on three sides by the Egota River; it has satoyama woods, an ecology pond, and a roughly 1,200-meter running course. In the Edo period, this was a falconry ground where shoguns and daimyo hunted with hawks.
The station is in Ehara-cho 2-chome, the northernmost station in Nakano City, and the platform marks the boundary between Nakano City and Nerima City. In 2020, about 16,500 people lived in this neighborhood, roughly 177 per hectare.
From our street photos, street cleanliness ranks 122nd among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and greenery ranks 79th, both in the top tier.
Ehara-cho is mainly residential, with Mejiro-dori running between 2-chome and 3-chome. Ehara Elementary School is within the neighborhood, while 1-chome is split between the Egota Elementary School and Ehara Elementary School districts.
To get to Shinjuku, take the Oedo Line — it's the 7th stop, with no transfer needed. There are also buses in front of the station: Kanto Bus's Naka12 and Naka41 go to Nakano Station, and Toei Bus's Haku61 goes to Nerima.
The neighborhood has only one station, Shin-egota, and public transit ranks 189th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, putting it in the middle tier. Ekoda Station on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line is to the north, about a 10-minute walk away, and is not within the neighborhood.
From our street photos, buildings rank 367th, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
The land that is now Egota-no-Mori Park has changed hands several times: in the Edo period it was a falconry ground for shoguns and daimyo, around 1920 the Tokyo City Sanatorium was established there, it was abolished in 1993, and the site only became the present park in 2007.
One theory for the name "Ehara" is that many of the place names among Egota Village's small sub-place-names ("koaza") contained the character for "field" (hara). When the residential address system was implemented in October 1963, this area — most of which had belonged to the former Egota 2-chome — was reorganized into Ehara-cho 1- to 3-chome.
The station did not open until December 19, 1997.
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