A maze of narrow lanes, with Awa Odori dancers streaming through the shopping street on summer nights
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Kyodo's alleys are narrow with many one-way streets, and taxi drivers call this area the "Kyodo Maze".
In summer there's the Kyodo Festival, centred on local Awa Odori dance troupes; many troupes dance along the Nodai-dori shopping street at night, and the next day there's a samba parade.
The shopping streets radiate outward from the station. Nodai-dori runs south from the station toward Tokyo University of Agriculture, whose campus is in Sakuragaoka 1-chome within the neighborhood; Suzuran-dori is a metropolitan road. During the morning rush, quite a few passengers get off at this station to go to school, since there are many schools around the station.
For everyday shopping, this neighborhood ranks 130th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. On the site of the former train inspection yard, they built the Kyodo Colti shopping complex, a sports club building, and rental apartments, linked together by a green promenade.
Since March 2022, all Express trains stop at Kyodo; the stations before and after Kyodo where the Express stops are Shimokitazawa and Seijo-Gakuen-mae. Kyodo Station's bus stop also has the Shibu 54 route, bound for Shibuya Station.
The Karasuyama River runs through Kyodo; it has now been covered over, and on top of it is the Karasuyamagawa Promenade.
Here there's only one line, the Odakyu Odawara Line, and public transit ranks 282nd, the weakest aspect of this neighborhood.
Judging from our street photos, sidewalks rank 241st and greenery ranks 280th, both also in the lower-middle range.
There are several theories about the origin of the place name, one of which relates to Fukusho-ji temple next to the station. Before the station opened in 1927, this area was still open fields belonging to Fukusho-ji; villagers donated the money to build the station, and even moved an entire farmhouse standing on a corner of the station site about 500 meters away.
After the war, the station front was once lined with street stalls and a black market; after these were cleared away in 1948, the shop owners formed the Shoeikai merchants' association, aiming to pave the roads and install streetlights. The streetlights were completed in 1960; in 1974 the first Awa Odori and Bon dance festival was held, which became the start of what later became the Kyodo Festival.
Platform doors were installed on Kyodo Station's outbound platform in July 2026, and the inbound platform is scheduled to follow within the same fiscal year.
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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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