A residential area close to central Tokyo, liveliest along the arcade by the station, with each town's festival floats gathering every autumn
The closest neighborhoods in the same city.
Go right from the underground passage at Hatagaya Station, up to the north side of Koshu-kaido, and the intersection east of the station is the start of Rokugo-dori. The southernmost stretch has an arch over the street, brick-patterned paving, and shops, restaurants, and pharmacies lined up one after another.
Heading north, the street becomes a slope following a valley over a covered river, and houses start to appear scattered among the shops. The northernmost stretch widens into a two-way road.
This area is a residential neighborhood where apartment buildings, rental apartments, and detached houses stand side by side. Hikawa Shrine, the shrine of the old Hatagaya village, is the ujigami (tutelary shrine) for the whole area, and during the autumn festival the floats from each town gather together. In 2020, more than 60% of households in this neighborhood were single-person households, and nearly 60% rented from private landlords.
Greenery ranks 146th among Tokyo's 395 neighborhoods, the highest-ranking item for this neighborhood. The neighborhood has a stretch of the Hatagaya Green Road, converted from the old channel of the Tamagawa Josui.
Hatagaya Station is served only by the Keio New Line, but there are many bus services running along Nakano-dori, Suido-doro, and Koshu-kaido.
In 2020, about 279 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood. There are many narrow streets and a dense concentration of wooden houses, so fire damage can spread easily, and evacuation routes are hard to secure. In Honcho 5-chome and 6-chome within the neighborhood, a disaster-prevention district development plan was revised in 2019.
Public transit ranks 139th, and daily shopping ranks 136th. Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 263rd, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood; sidewalks rank 230th.
According to legend, in 1082, Minamoto no Yoshiie washed the white banner of the Minamoto clan in a pond here on his way back from the Later Three-Year War, and that is said to be the origin of the name Hatagaya. In 1898, the new channel of the Tamagawa Josui was completed, and the earthen embankment split Hatagaya into north and south halves, leaving residents able to cross only through three tunnels.
After the Great Kanto Earthquake of 1923, timber merchants from Kiba in Fukagawa moved in one after another, which is why there are still quite a few timber shops in the area today. In 1932, the new channel was decommissioned, and the site became today's Suido-doro.
The bridge on the road was torn down, but Rokugo-dori still keeps the name of what was once the sixth bridge counting from Shinjuku. It wasn't until the Keio New Line opened in 1978 that Hatagaya Station moved underground.
The green road built along the old channel is being renovated in sections; the stretch of the Hatagaya Green Road between Tokiwa Bridge and Aioi Bridge was completed in March 2026. The Nishihara Green Road section between Misuzu Bridge and Nishi-Yoyogi Bridge is scheduled to be completed in March 2027.
Compared with the 395 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.
Maps show the shops and the sights. What a street is like, you only know by walking it. TidyMap uses AI street imagery analysis and public facility data to turn each area's street environment and everyday convenience into something you can compare. Search an address and look at the street outside first.
How to read it: yellow = poor, blue = good; grey = not enough data
TidyMap rates the street environment and everyday convenience. It does not assess the home itself, safety, noise or actual living experience. Street environment scores use AI assessments of imagery; convenience scores use public facility data.
Content is for personal browsing. Official TidyMap neighborhood cards may be shared as generated; anyone using one commercially is responsible for their own compliance (sharing guidelines). Bulk extraction, APIs and dataset redistribution require a data licence — email us. This site uses Google Analytics and Cloudflare Analytics.