A former post town on the Koshu Kaido, with wisteria at Kokuryo Shrine said to be four or five hundred years old, flowering in May
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The platform arrival melodies at Kokuryo Station are theme songs from the Japanese dramas Taiyo ni Hoero and Seibu Keisatsu, one for Line 1 and one for Line 2. In 2021, at Chofu City's request, they were changed to theme songs from works related to Ishihara Promotion, since the company used to have an office in the city, and the nearest station to it was Kokuryo.
At the other end of the neighborhood is Fuda Station, and about a 5-minute walk from the north exit is Kokuryo Shrine, home to a sacred tree called Sennen no Fuji (Thousand-Year Wisteria). It blooms every year from late April to early May, on a roughly 400-square-meter steel wisteria trellis built in 1972. In 1985, Chofu City held a public poll for the "Eight Views of Chofu," and it was selected as one of them.
Kokuryo Station went underground in 2012, and the area above ground is now a station plaza and bus terminal. Coco Square, completed in front of the station in 2000, has Maruetsu as its anchor store. In a high-rise residential building completed in 2004, a Seiyu opened on the lower floors that same year.
From Kokuryo to Chofu Station is just two stops. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 131st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranking of the four categories for this neighborhood. Buildings rank 141st, in the middle of the pack.
Kokuryo Station is served only by Local trains; Special Express and Express trains pass through without stopping. Public transit ranks 238th out of 395 neighborhoods, in the middle of the pack.
Sidewalks rank 228th, the weakest of the four street-environment categories. In front of Fuda Station there are only convenience stores, small supermarkets, and drugstores, no large stores.
The place name Kokuryo comes from the fact that this area used to be land administered by the headquarters of Musashi Province, known as kokugaryo. During the Edo period, one of the Fuda Goshuku, the five post towns on the Koshu Kaido, was Kokuryo-shuku.
When the station opened in 1913, it was on the north side of Koshu Kaido; it wasn't moved to its current location until 1927. When the Keio Line went underground in 2012, the long-standing problem of level crossings that wouldn't open was also resolved.
JUKI, an industrial sewing machine maker founded in Chofu in 1938, had its head office in Kokuryo-cho 8-chome, and at the time there was also a factory nearby that made bread for school lunches. After the land was sold, an Ito-Yokado opened in December 2004 on the site of JUKI's former head office. In 2009, JUKI's head office also moved to Tama City.
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