A street of jazz cafés and live music, where musicians take to the streets in October
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Right outside the south exit is the Pearl Center shopping street, about 700 meters long with 240 shops all covered by an arcade, so you don't need an umbrella for shopping even on rainy days. Asagaya has quite a few jazz kissa (cafes that play jazz records) and live performance spaces, and every October musicians even play out on the street.
Back at the station, Nakasugi-dori, which runs north-south, has about 270 zelkova trees planted along it — this tree-lined street is Asagaya's signature feature.
For daily shopping, this neighborhood ranks 83rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, with Pearl Center's roughly 240 shops right by the south exit. Kawakita General Hospital moved to a new campus within the neighborhood, in Asagaya-kita 1-chome, in 2025. Pearl Center has also been a venue for the October street jazz event since 1995.
Since 1994, the Chuo Line Rapid has not stopped at Asagaya Station on Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. In 2020, this neighborhood had about 221 people per hectare.
Looking at our street photos, sidewalks rank 339th out of 395 neighborhoods, and neighborhood environment ranks 321st, both toward the lower end. During the five days of the Tanabata Festival every August, the arcade is decked out with decorations, and in past years more than 500,000 people have come to visit, making the south exit shopping street very crowded.
Asagaya Station opened in 1922, and after the Great Kanto Earthquake the following year, many people moved here from central Tokyo. The Asagaya-kai, organized by writers including Ibuse Masuji, started out as a shogi club and became a drinking gathering after the war, continuing until the 1970s.
In 1954, 119 zelkova trees were planted along Nakasugi-dori; that same year, the shopping street held its first Tanabata Festival to attract customers. The arcade was first built in 1962 and replaced with the current second-generation version in 1999. Learning the lessons of the Great Hanshin Earthquake, the new roof can be opened to prevent fire in a disaster.
Suginami Daiichi Elementary School is set to move to the site of the former Kawakita General Hospital, using land from the land readjustment project in the area northeast of the station. The original goal was for the new school to open in April 2029. But as the hospital demolition schedule has stretched out, the City office says both the construction start date and the opening date are currently undecided.
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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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