A residential street once scattered with painters' and sculptors' studios, a statue of a woman standing before the ticket gate
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In the past, the area around Eifukucho Station had quite a few studios belonging to painters and sculptors scattered around. Nowadays, the Eifuku area is mostly residential, and each household's lot tends to be fairly spacious. In front of the ticket gates stands a statue of a woman, Winter, draped in a cloak made using the Hokkaido dyeing and weaving craft known as Yukara-ori.
The sculptor, Sato Churyo, once lived in Eifuku. In 2011, a shopping complex opened above the station, with a rooftop garden furnished with benches and tables where you can sit down and rest. On the north side of the station there's a Keio supermarket and the City's citizen's office, and along Eifuku-dori, which runs perpendicular to the railway, there's a row of small shops.
From our street photos, cleanliness ranks 190th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the strongest ranking in this neighborhood's lineup. One end of the Inokashira Line is Shibuya, reachable from this station by a direct train with no transfer; the Express also stops here. Eifukucho is the only station on the Inokashira Line with a passing track, where the Express and the Local meet and connect here.
Beside the station is the Keio Bus Eifukucho depot, and buses to Shinjuku and Nakano depart from around the station. The Kanda River flows between Eifuku 1-chome and 2-chome. In the southern part of Eifuku, near the border with Setagaya City, there's the Izumi Campus of Meiji University, next to which are Tsukiji Hongwanji and Wadabori Cemetery.
Everyday shopping ranks 316th out of 395 neighborhoods, the weakest ranking in this neighborhood's lineup; buildings rank 356th and healthcare ranks 283rd, also near the bottom. During weekday morning rush hour, the Inokashira Line doesn't run the Express, only the Local at about every two minutes, and it gets more crowded the closer you get to Shibuya.
The place name comes from the local temple Eifukuji, and the name "Eifukuji" already existed back in the Sengoku period. In 1933, Teito Electric Railway opened Eifukucho Station, and the painter Nakagawa Kazumasa wrote about what it looked like when it opened in an essay.
The bus garage beside the station was originally the depot for the Inokashira Line; in the air raid of May 1945, 24 of the 31 train cars were burned. In 1970, the rolling stock depot was relocated, and the bus office expanded to take its place; new trains for the Inokashira Line are still brought in through here to this day. Wadabori Cemetery was land that Hongwanji sought out as an alternative burial ground after the Great Kanto Earthquake, opened in 1934, and the writer Higuchi Ichiyo is also buried there.
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