One of Tokyo's best-known upmarket residential areas, with small shops and Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park just outside the station
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As soon as you exit Hiroo Station, you're at the Hiroo-bashi intersection, which is also the entrance to the Hiroo shopping street. Along the street are individual shops like bakeries, Japanese sweet shops, fish stores, and stationery stores, as well as izakaya and drugstores, and deeper in there are several temples. Office buildings and chain stores line the main road, while the high ground in 2-chome and 3-chome is one of Tokyo's famous upscale residential areas.
The entrance to Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park closer to the station is the lowest point in the whole park. Inside the park, from the high ground in the east, the land slopes down along the valley to the pond, with plum trees, water lilies, and dogwood, and autumn brings maple colors too. Cross the Shibuya River heading south and you're in Ebisu.
Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 8th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. The neighborhood environment ranks 23rd.
On the high ground east of the park is the Tokyo Metropolitan Central Library. Hiroo 4-chome has the Japanese Red Cross Medical Center, with 693 beds, which moved here in 1891.
Public transit ranks 181st, and the station in this neighborhood is Hiroo Station on the Hibiya Line.
The area around the park has big elevation changes, with the steep slopes of Nanbuzaka and Kinoshitazaka on both sides, and there are many slopes around Minami-azabu too.
Hiroo was once written with the character for "gutter" (hi) and the character for "basket" (ro), and was a large expanse of open fields; the Edo Meisho Zue depicts it as covered entirely in silver grass. The flat land around 5-chome used to be covered with tsukushi (the spore-bearing stems that horsetail sends up in spring), and in the Edo period it was a place where ordinary people went for walks.
In 1713, the area that is now the Hiroo shopping street became a built-up townscape. The Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945 did not burn this area, and buildings from the Meiji and Taisho eras remained standing until recently.
The center of the tsukushi fields later became a Toei tram depot, and the site is now the Toei Hiroo 5-chome apartment complex.
The road in front of Arisugawa-no-miya Memorial Park is being widened. Minato City plans to widen the 320-meter stretch from Minami-azabu 5-chome to 4-chome to 15 meters, with 3-meter sidewalks on each side.
The temporary work in front of the park was completed in June 2025, and utility lines are now being relocated; the whole project is scheduled to run until March 2031.
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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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