Supermarkets and apartment blocks between Tsutsujigaoka Station's north exit and the Koshu Kaido, and quiet homes along the Nogawa river to the south
Out of the north exit of Tsutsujigaoka Station, a row of buildings stands between the tracks and the Koshu Kaido, their lower floors mostly taken up by an Ozeki supermarket, drugstores and cram schools. The shopping street around the station has more shops than any other in Chofu City. The south exit is much quieter: walk downhill to the Nogawa River and you reach Jindai Danchi, a large public housing estate, part of which crosses into Komae City.
The Nogawa side to the south has plenty of trees, and greenery ranks 29th of Tokyo's 167 neighbourhoods, the best of this neighbourhood's seven categories. Buses from the north exit run north to Jindaiji Temple and Jindai Botanical Gardens (both outside this neighbourhood) without a change. Keio Line Express trains also stop here.
Between the station and the Shibasaki area there are five level crossings, and at rush hour their barriers are down for 44 to 54 minutes in every hour; Chofu City lists them as "crossings that never open" (akazu no fumikiri). The city plans to raise the Keio Line between Sengawa and Kokuryo above street level, but only in April 2026 did the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism approve it to begin preparing for construction, and there is no completion date yet. Everyday shopping ranks 148th of 167, and former residents say neighbouring Sengawa beats it for both eating out and shopping. In our street photos, buildings rank 159th, this neighbourhood's weakest category.
This area was originally called Kaneko, and when the station opened on the Koshu Kaido in 1913 it was named Kaneko Station. In 1927 the station moved to where it stands today. In 1957 Keio Teito Electric Railway built a housing development nearby and renamed the station Tsutsujigaoka after the project, which also avoided a clash with Kaneko Station on the Hachiko Line. The town names later followed, becoming Higashi-Tsutsujigaoka and Nishi-Tsutsujigaoka, and the place-name writer Imao Keisuke lamented that a name traceable back more than 800 years had simply vanished. The "hill" (oka) in the name does fit: most of the area sits on the plateau above the Kokubunji Cliff Line (Kokubunji Gaisen), and only the land by the Nogawa lies below it. Jorakuin Temple near the south exit moved here from Ueno after the war; its 52nd head priest, Honda Tetsumaro, composed the music for the children's song "Omoide no Album" (Album of Memories), and a monument to the song stands in the temple grounds.
Compared with the 167 Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
95 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-03
Compared against the Tokyo neighbourhoods in this guide; metrics without enough data are not ranked. Shopping counts convenience stores plus the nearer of a supermarket or a traditional market (public and private retail markets); night markets, vendor zones and shopping-street shops are not counted. Transit is rail-first with a lower weight for buses.
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