On an old Edo-period post-town road, the longest shopping street on the Tobu Tojo Line
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Right outside the south exit of Tobu-nerima Station is the old Kawagoe Kaido, and the shopping street that lines this old road is the longest along the Tojo Line. In the Edo period this road was the post station of Shimo-nerima-shuku, and today it belongs to Kitamachi, Nerima City.
Behind the shopping street are the homes of Kitamachi: rental listings in 2-chome are 1 to 4 minutes' walk to the station, while 1-chome and 5-chome are 5 to 13 minutes away. Every year this stretch of the old road hosts the Kitamachi Awa Odori, drawing around 70,000 people.
On the north exit side is Tokumaru in Itabashi City, home to the AEON Itabashi Shopping Center and Tokyo Metropolitan Itabashi Yutoku High School. This neighborhood counts both sides of the station together: Kitamachi 1- to 5-chome, Tokumaru 1- to 3-chome, plus Nishidai 3- and 4-chome and Tokumaru 5- and 6-chome, with about 185 people per hectare in 2020.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 208th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, in the middle of the pack; shopping relies on both sides of the station, with the shopping street at the south exit and the shopping center at the north exit.
Only Local trains stop at this station, but in fiscal 2025 it still saw 58,152 boardings and alightings a day, the most of any station on the Tojo Line that Express trains skip.
From the south exit, the Kitamachi community bus route runs to Hikarigaoka Station, and the Hikawadai route passes through Hikawadai Station and Nerima Station.
For public transit, this neighborhood ranks 298th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, toward the lower end; for sidewalks it ranks 251st, in the middle of the pack. Neither Express nor Semi Express trains stop at this station, so getting to Ikebukuro means taking a Local train or transferring at another station first.
The entire Kitamachi 4-chome is occupied by the Nerima Camp of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force, sitting right among the neighborhood's homes.
Shimo-nerima-shuku is the only post town in present-day Nerima City, and most travelers passing through only stopped here briefly, with few staying overnight. When Tobu opened the station in 1931, the road in front of it was exactly the boundary between Akatsuka Village and Nerima Town, and the station ended up on the Tokumaru side of Akatsuka Village.
Tobu felt "Tokumaru" wasn't well-known enough, so it borrowed the name of Shimo-nerima-shuku to the south and called the station "Nerima"; but since Musashino Railway already had a Nerima Station, it was named Tobu-nerima instead. When Nerima City split off from Itabashi City in 1947, the station remained in Itabashi City.
From the 1960s on, before Nishidai, Takashimadaira, and Heiwadai stations opened, the Kitaichi and Kitamachi shopping streets drew crowds from far away, and at one point were so packed that people could barely move. Between 1973 and 1977, the Tagara River that flowed through Kitamachi was buried underground and turned into a greenway, which today is a place for cherry blossom viewing.
Compared with the 395 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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