A park where the 1964 Olympic flame once burned, now ringed by a jogging track
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During the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Komazawa Olympic Park was the second venue, and the Olympic flame burned continuously in the park throughout the games. After the games, the park was opened to the public and became a sports park combining green space with athletic facilities, with a track and field stadium, tennis courts, a gymnasium, and also a dog park.
Inside the park there's a 2,140-meter jogging course that runs counterclockwise. The park itself is outside the neighborhood, about a 15-minute walk from Komazawa-Daigaku Station. The station's signature color is taken from the fresh leaf green of this park.
The station sits underground beneath National Route 246, and was renovated in April 2025, with part of the interior using aluminium alloy recycled from retired Tokaido Shinkansen N700-series cars. West of the station, Komazawa 1-chome is home to Komazawa University's Komazawa campus, where most students attend classes for all four years.
Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 160th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo.
Only the Denentoshi Line serves this area, and Express trains don't stop here; what you'd normally ride is a Semi Express or a Local. Convenience of daily life ranks 255th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo.
Sidewalks rank only 340th, the weakest category for this neighborhood. Some areas around Kamiuma have poor drainage and may flood during concentrated heavy rain.
The place name Komazawa was coined in 1889 when six villages merged: it took the "uma" (horse) from Kami-Umahikisawa and swapped it for the synonymous "koma," then added the "sawa" from Nozawa and Fukasawa. In 1913, Sotoshu University relocated to Komazawa, and in 1925 it was renamed Komazawa University.
In 1907, the Tamaden line opened, and Manaka Station was built at the site of the current station. When the Shin-Tamagawa Line was planning its station, local residents and the university wanted it located further west, near Tamaden-Komazawa Station, and in 1970 they even filed an administrative lawsuit.
They lost the lawsuit, but in exchange got the station name "Komazawa-Daigaku," along with an underground passage funded by Tokyu leading toward Komazawa. In 1977, the station was built on the former site of Manaka Station.
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