A residential street with plum in its name — in February the plum grove at Hanegi Park hosts a plum blossom festival
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Hanegi Park is in Daita 4-chome, outside the neighborhood, and Umegaoka Station is its nearest station. The park has about 650 plum trees, and the Setagaya Plum Festival is held there every February; the rebuilt Umegaoka Library reopened in February 2026, with its 3F connecting directly to the park.
Around Umegaoka Station there are three supermarkets — Summit, Odakyu OX, and Wise Mart — and the post office, the Kitazawa Police Station, and Setagaya City's Umegaoka Area Development Center are also right by the station. Beyond the shopping street in front of the station, almost everything else is residential.
North of Umegaoka is the Kitazawa River, and south of it is the Karasuyama River; the land sandwiched between them is mostly flat. On the north side of the station, in Matsubara 6-chome, is Setagaya City's integrated health, medical, and welfare facility "Umetopia," built on the former site of the Tokyo Metropolitan Umegaoka Hospital.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 183 people per hectare.
From our street photos, cleanliness ranks 29th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and buildings rank 36th; both are in the top tier, the two highest-ranked categories for this neighborhood.
Umegaoka Station is served only by Local trains, and since 2018 it has also been served by through trains from the Chiyoda Line. Among the Odakyu Line stations served only by Local trains, it has the highest number of boardings and alightings.
Everyday shopping ranks 264th, in the lower tier; the supermarkets are all clustered around the station.
Not every property lists Umegaoka Station as its nearest station either: of 30 buildings in Umegaoka 2-chome, 18 list Gotokuji Station and 10 list Umegaoka Station. In Umegaoka 3-chome, 15 list Umegaoka Station and 14 list Wakabayashi Station.
Umegaoka Station opened in 1934, originally built to connect with the planned Tokyo Yamate Express Electric Railway, a line that was ultimately never built. The name "Umegaoka" was first used for the station name; its origin has several theories: one says a nearby landowner's family crest was a plum blossom, another says the character for "bury" (mai) in the old name of a nearby burial mound was changed to the character for "plum" (ume).
In 1964, when the residential address system was implemented, Umegaoka 1- to 3-chome were separated from Setagaya to become their own town names. The plum grove in Hanegi Park was only planted starting with 55 plum trees in 1967, planted later to follow the station and place name.
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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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