Komae, Japan's second-smallest city, where an old temple's bamboo grove and the Benzaiten-ike pond remain by the station
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Komae Station's north exit ticket gates are on the same level as the station front, and you come out right onto a roundabout. Near the roundabout is a 2.1-hectare green space left behind by Senryu-ji and Benzaiten-ike together, with about 120 moso bamboo plants in the area, visible from the north exit plaza.
Komae is the second-smallest city by area in Japan, and Komae Station sits right at the city's center. The city's vision is called "a city of water and greenery," and the city song by the same name plays when trains pull into the station.
On the north exit side there's also the city hall, the central library, and the 728-seat Ecorma Hall. Coming out the south exit is the post office.
In 2020, about half of households in this neighborhood were single-person households, slightly more than Komae City as a whole. People in their twenties and thirties made up about 27%, with renters and homeowners roughly evenly split.
This whole layout in front of the station was put together when Odakyu elevated its tracks. The elevation work was completed in 1995, and 13 level crossings in the city were eliminated along with it; Ecorma on the north side opened that same November. Starting in 2018, Semi Express trains began stopping at Komae Station again for the first time in 54 years, and there are also services that run through directly to the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line.
Judging from our street photos, cleanliness ranks 57th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, the highest-ranked item for this neighborhood. Greenery ranks 53rd, also near the top.
Daily shopping ranks 330th, and healthcare ranks 282nd, the two weakest items for this neighborhood. Housing is densely packed around the station, making it hard to build large shopping complexes; there's an Odakyu OX supermarket in front of the station, and an Odakyu Marché under the elevated tracks. Rapid Express and Express trains don't stop at Komae — only Semi Express and Local trains stop there.
"Komae" is taken from the ancient place name "Komae-go," and there are several theories about its origin. A large number of ancient burial mounds were built in this area in the 5th and 6th centuries; it's said there were once about 70, of which 13 remain.
The place name "Izumi" comes from Benzaiten-ike. It's said that during the Nara period, the monk Roben prayed for rain here, and a spring welled up from the ground; this spring dried up in 1972, and the pond is now kept full by a well.
When Komae Village was established in 1889, the village office was set up inside Senryu-ji. In 1927, Odakyu originally only planned to build Tamagawa Station, today's Izumi-tamagawa Station, but the village felt it was too far from the village center. In the end, the village raised funds to buy the station land and donated it to Odakyu, and that's how Komae Station came to be.
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