Hon-Komagome, a leafy residential area of old temples and shrines — the name "Kichijoji" in Musashino actually originates from here
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Hon-Komagome is a temple town and educational residential area along Hongo-dori, scattered with many long-established temples and shrines; even though it's in the city center, there's still a good amount of greenery. Kichijo-ji temple in 3-chome has a main gate built in 1802 that survived the Great Tokyo Air Raids. It's not the same Kichijoji as the one in Musashino City; that place name was carried over by the residents of this temple's monzen-machi (temple town).
Bunkyo Green Court in 2-chome faces Shinobazu-dori and has kept a stand of ginkgo trees as open space; the plaza behind it also has many cherry trees planted. Inside there's a supermarket, restaurants, medical facilities, and a post office.
From our street photos, greenery ranks 38th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and cleanliness ranks 38th. In 2020, single-person households made up about 54% of this neighborhood, a bit lower than Bunkyo City overall; children under 15 were about 13%, slightly higher than the ward average.
Daily shopping ranks 53rd out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and healthcare ranks 60th. 3-chome has Tokyo Metropolitan Komagome Hospital, a designated cancer treatment hospital.
Public transit ranks 54th. The stations before and after Hon-Komagome Station on the Namboku Line are Todaimae and Komagome.
The Mita Line is also close by: Hakusan Station is about 250 meters in a straight line from Hon-Komagome Station. It's about a 3-minute walk from Bunkyo Green Court to Exit A1 of Sengoku Station on the Mita Line.
Hon-Komagome Station's address is actually in Mukogaoka 2-chome, not in Hon-Komagome. There are many schools nearby, so the station gets crowded during school commute times.
In 2020, about 210 people lived per hectare in this neighborhood. From our street photos, sidewalks rank 85th, the lowest-ranking item for this neighborhood.
People have lived in this area since early times; the Dozaka Site in 3-chome has yielded remains of a settlement from the middle Jomon period. By the Edo period, the same plot of land was the residence of the takajo (falconers who raised hawks for the shogun) under the eighth shogun, Yoshimune.
Kichijo-ji was founded in 1458 by Ota Dokan, and moved to its current location after the Great Meireki Fire of 1657. Hongo-dori, which runs through this area, was called Nikko Onari-michi in the Edo period, the road the shogun took to visit Nikko Toshogu Shrine.
At that time, Hon-Komagome was mostly made up of shimo-yashiki (secondary residences) of various domains and samurai residences; after the Meiji era, it became a residential area for figures from politics, government, and business. The Toyo Bunko in 2-chome began with the Morrison Collection purchased by Iwasaki Hisaya in 1917; it was established in Hon-Komagome in 1924, and opened a museum in 2011.
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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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