Under the Docomo tower, cram schools and office blocks ring the station where three lines meet
Next to Yoyogi Station stands the NTT Docomo Yoyogi Building. It looks about 50 storeys tall from the outside, but the actual floors only go up to the 25th; the upper half is a steel frame holding microwave antennas, and it's hollow inside. The station itself is served by the Yamanote Line, Chuo-Sobu Line local trains, and the Toei Oedo Line. This station has a story involving cram school students. From the mid-1970s to around 1990, station staff put up a large sheet of white paper every morning by the stairs on Platform 2 for passengers to draw on. By evening, the paper would always be filled with manga characters drawn by students from cram schools and vocational schools.
The strength here is transportation—public transit ranks 4th among Tokyo's 219 neighborhoods. At Yoyogi Station, JR lines average 56,582 boardings per day, and the Oedo Line averages 32,870 passengers boarding and alighting per day. It's also close to Shinjuku Station to the north—the platforms of the two stations are only about 100 metres apart. Convenience of daily living ranks 9th, and healthcare also ranks 9th, both near the top among the 219 neighborhoods.
There are far more people here during the day than at night. At the end of 2024, the resident population across the three chome was about 8,600, but the 2021 Economic Census counted 75,296 workers—about 8.8 times as many. The biggest gap is in Yoyogi 2-chome, where the resident population is about 3,100 but the number of workers is 35,512. Its north side is close to Shinjuku Station's south exit, where skyscraper office buildings such as the JR East headquarters have been built one after another since the mid-1990s. From our street photos, sidewalks rank 149th, in the lower part of the 219 neighborhoods; the street environment ranks 126th, in the middle range.
Yoyogi Station opened in 1906, taking its name from nearby Yoyogi Village, but the station was actually built in Sendagaya; what locals used to call "Yoyogi" referred to the area around Uehara and Tomigaya. In 1998, the Southern Terrace shopping promenade opened south of Shinjuku Station, and since then Shinjuku Station and this area have run into each other. In 2000, the Docomo Building was completed on the former site of Japanese National Railways' Shinjuku freight station, and the Oedo Line's Yoyogi Station opened the same year. The major cram school chain Yoyogi Seminar finished its headquarters building in 2008, then announced in 2014 that it would close about 70% of its directly operated campuses starting in the 2015 academic year.
Compared with the 219 Tokyo neighborhoods in this guide (scores 0–10)
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.
45 blocks · Curated boundary · Data version 2026-10-12
Compared against the Tokyo neighborhoods 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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