Akebonobashi, a small town at the bottom of a valley, said to have been renamed in the hope of "living well", its shopping street still lively
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The area around the station, now called Sumiyoshi, used to be named Ichigaya Tanimachi, referring to the valley sandwiched between two plateaus. In 1952 it was renamed Sumiyoshi, said to come from the wish to become "a town where people live well".
From the bottom of this valley, you can take the Toei Shinjuku Line, and the next station over is Shinjuku-sanchome. Even after Fuji Television moved away, the Akebonobashi-dori Shopping Street next to the station is still used by many nearby residents.
West of Sumiyoshi is Tomihisa, where Tomihisa Cross was completed in 2015. The main structure is a 55-story tower with 1,084 units, with a supermarket and preschool on the lower floors.
Tomihisa Sakura Park in Tomihisa was planned together by residents and the City office, with a lawn plaza in the middle.
Healthcare ranks 40th out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, the strongest category for this neighborhood. Tokyo Women's Medical University Hospital is right next door to the north in Kawada-cho (the Wakamatsu-Kawada neighborhood), the only hospital affiliated with a women's medical university in Japan.
Daily shopping ranks 47th.
Right by Exit A1 and A2 of the station is the Toei Bus Haku61 line, a direct bus with no transfer to Shinjuku Station West Exit.
The station sits at the bottom of a valley, so there's a slope in every direction you walk. The Toei Shinjuku Line's Express service doesn't stop at Akebonobashi, so you'll need to take a Local train.
From our street photos, the neighborhood's streetscape ranks 281st; cleanliness ranks 336th, the weakest category for this neighborhood, and greenery ranks 271st, also near the bottom.
The Akebonobashi overpass above the station carries Gaien Higashi-dori over Yasukuni-dori, and it opened in 1957. The bridge's name was chosen through a public competition, expressing the wish for recovery and growth.
In 1980, Akebonobashi Station on the Toei Shinjuku Line opened beneath the bridge. Kawada-cho, next door to the north, was once home to Fuji Television; until it moved to Odaiba in 1997, station announcements added "Fuji Television-mae," and the shopping street was also called "Fuji Television Shitadori".
Next door, Tomihisa saw its land prices speculated during the bubble economy; when the bubble burst, it left behind scattered parking lots and vacant land here and there, and young people moved away one by one. In 1990, residents began gathering to look for solutions, and it took more than twenty years before today's Tomihisa Cross came about.
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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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