A quiet, leafy residential area in the south of the city, and a town of sweets where renowned pastry chefs open shops
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Jiyugaoka is known as one of the representative upscale residential areas south of the city, and the area around the station is also a shopping district that many people come to specifically to browse. Meguro City's direction for this area is for homes with plenty of greenery, in quiet surroundings, to coexist with shops that have character. This is also a town of sweets, where pastry shops by famous pastry chefs gather.
North of the station there are lifestyle shops, and in the side streets there are shops with character, cafes, and galleries. What people call Jiyugaoka also includes the commercial area of Okusawa in Setagaya City.
On the Toyoko Line, the next stop for the Limited Express heading toward Shibuya is Nakameguro; heading toward Yokohama, it's Musashi-Kosugi. All day long, Local trains wait at this station for the Limited Express, with both trains stopping on opposite sides of the same platform, so you can transfer without leaving the platform.
For healthcare, it ranks 63rd among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and for overall convenience of daily life it ranks 120th.
On the Meguro City side, chome 1 through 3 are home to over 7,400 people, but in 2021 more than 11,000 people worked here.
The streets in front of the station, Jiyu-dori and Gakuen-dori, are narrow, with a lot of roadside parking. The railway crossing by the station often stays closed for a long time. In our street photos, the sidewalks rank 277th among 395 neighborhoods.
When the Toyoko Line opened in 1927, this station was called Kuhombutsu Station. That same year, educator Tezuka Kishie founded Jiyugaoka Gakuen here, and the place name comes from the school.
In 1929, the Oimachi Line opened a station in front of Kuhombutsu Joshin-ji Temple, taking the name "Kuhombutsu" for itself, so this station was renamed Jiyugaoka. After the Toyoko Line opened, novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzo, sculptor Sawada Seiko, and others moved here one after another.
The statue of the goddess in the roundabout at the front exit is a work by Sawada. During World War II, the military police demanded that the word "freedom" (jiyu) be removed from the place name, but the residents did not comply.
The new building Jiyugaoka Muse Square at Chome 1, Block 29, has 170 residential units, with move-in starting in August 2026. On September 17, the commercial facilities inside will open.
The chairman of this redevelopment association is also the representative director of the shopping street promotion association. It is the local shops, not the City office or any company, that are driving the redevelopment in front of the station.
The Jiyugaoka East district, also in Chome 1, Blocks 10 to 13, also had its redevelopment urban plan decided in October 2025. The City office is promoting grade-separating the Toyoko Line toward Toritsu-Daigaku, but the City's webpage, updated in February 2024, does not give a timeline.
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.
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