A residential area in the center of Nerima, with six gas tanks and three temples relocated from Tsukiji Hongwanji
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The schools and sports grounds in Yahara sit right among the houses: 2-chome has Yawara Elementary School, and 4-chome has Kitahara Elementary School and Yawara Junior High School. 1-chome has the Nerima City General Gymnasium, and the same chome also has six high-pressure gas holders at the Tokyo Gas Nerima Pressure Regulating Station. 6-chome has the Nerima Clean Center, next to which stand three temples moved here from Tsukiji Hongwanji in 1928, together known as Sangenji.
To the west, Miharadai 1-chome through 3-chome all fall within the school zones for Izumishin Elementary School and Miharadai Junior High School.
This neighborhood comprises Yahara 1-chome through 6-chome plus Miharadai 1-chome through 3-chome, with about 128 people per hectare in 2020.
Judging from our street photos, building exteriors rank 161st out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the strongest ranking in this neighborhood's lineup.
This neighborhood has no station of its own: rental listings in Yahara 1-chome are mostly marked as Nerima-Takanodai Station, 14 to 18 minutes on foot; 2-chome, 5-chome, and 6-chome are mostly marked as Shakujii-koen Station, 15 to 19 minutes on foot. Listings in Miharadai are all marked as Shakujii-koen Station, 10 to 22 minutes on foot; Yahara 3-chome is marked as Hikarigaoka Station, 18 to 20 minutes.
Buses fill the gap: the Seibu Bus running from Narimasu Station's South Exit to Kichijoji Station stops at Yawara Chu, and the Toei Bus from Oizumi-gakuen Station to Shin-egota Station stops at Yawara Shogakko-mae.
Public transit ranks 382nd out of Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the weakest ranking in this neighborhood's lineup; sidewalks rank 362nd, also toward the bottom.
Yahara Intersection is where four metropolitan roads, including Mejiro-dori and Sasame-dori, meet; anyone heading from central Tokyo to the Nerima Interchange on the Kan-etsu Expressway has to pass through it, and besides nighttime and early morning it's often congested. The Kan-etsu Expressway and Mejiro-dori also cut east-west through the middle of Miharadai.
Yahara was originally the "Yahara Zaike" hamlet of Shakujii Village, and later became Yahara Village; after being incorporated into Tokyo City in 1932 it belonged to Itabashi City, and in 1949 it became Yahara-cho in Nerima City.
When the residential address system was implemented in 1965, most of Yahara-cho 2-chome north of Mejiro-dori was merged with parts of Kitatanaka-cho, Doshida-cho, and Takamatsu-cho to form Yahara 1-chome through 6-chome. The place name has been read Yahara ever since, but Yawara Elementary School and Yawara Junior High School still keep the old reading, Yawara.
In the Edo period, Miharadai was an exclave of Tanaka Village, and villagers cleared land here to create Tanaka Shinden. It wasn't until the residential address system was implemented in 1971 that the name was changed from Kitatanaka-cho to Miharadai.
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