The New National Theatre and Tokyo Opera City sit right at the station, with quiet residential lanes behind
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Hatsudai Station's central exit leads to the New National Theatre Tokyo, which stages opera, ballet, contemporary dance, and drama. The east exit connects directly to the 54-story Tokyo Opera City, and the boundary between Shinjuku City and Shibuya City is marked right in the semi-outdoor passageway between the two buildings.
After the show, only the stretch along Koshu Kaido in Hatsudai forms a continuous office district with Nishi-Shinjuku; most of the rest is quiet residential streets. There's a shopping street in front of the station, and Shinjuku is within walking distance too.
In 2020, people in their 20s and 30s made up about three in ten residents of this neighborhood, higher than the Shibuya City average as a whole; nearly six in ten households rented privately.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 42nd out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods, the highest ranking of any category here. Beyond the shopping street in front of the station, there's also the Hatsudai Green Road toward Hatagaya Station, built over the old Tamagawa Josui waterway, lined with cherry trees.
Hatsudai Station is served only by the Keio New Line, and some trains departing from Shinjuku Station on the New Line run directly through to the Toei Shinjuku Line. The Odakyu Line and Chiyoda Line are also nearby.
Trains on the Keio Line main line all pass through Hatsudai without stopping. From our street photos, sidewalks here rank 192nd out of 395 neighborhoods, the lowest ranking of any category here.
Healthcare ranks 100th, the weakest of the three convenience-of-living categories. In 2020, about 227 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood.
The name Hatsudai is said to come from Hatsudai no Tsubone, the wet nurse of Tokugawa Hidetada. She received land in Yoyogi village in 1591 and retired here in her later years.
When the station opened in 1914, it was called Kaiseibashi, named after a bridge over the Tamagawa Josui beside the tracks. It wasn't renamed Hatsudai until 1919, and in 1978 it moved to its current platform on the Keio New Line. The Tamagawa Josui was later covered over, and only the bridge's corner posts and railings remain of Kaiseibashi, kept as a memorial.
The land where Opera City now stands was originally a telephone exchange, a bus depot, and a department store distribution center. Opera City opened in 1996, and the New National Theatre Tokyo opened the following year.
The Hatsudai Green Road, built over the old waterway, is being rebuilt in sections. The stretch from Daiemonbashi to Kaiseibashi is scheduled for completion in March 2027; the other two sections are scheduled for June of the same year.
Within this neighborhood, there's also a redevelopment of about 4.6 hectares in Nishi-Shinjuku 3-chome. Demolition is scheduled to begin in fiscal 2027, main construction in fiscal 2028, and completion in fiscal 2035.
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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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