The platform echoes with Meiji University's school song, with the campus right across Koshu Kaido
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Since 2017, before Keio Line trains arrive at the platform, the station plays Meiji University's school song. North of the station, across Koshu Kaido, is Meiji University's Izumi Campus (outside this neighborhood), where first- and second-year students from six humanities faculties take classes.
In 2020, more than six out of ten households in this neighborhood were single-person households, and more than half of homes were rented. People in their twenties and thirties made up nearly 40%, higher than in Setagaya City or Suginami City.
The neighborhood covers Matsubara 1-chome and 2-chome in Setagaya City, plus Izumi 2-chome in Suginami City. North of the campus buildings there are cafes, stationery stores, fast food shops, and cheap cafeterias for students, but the shopping street in front of the station is not large in scale.
For Shinjuku, take the Keio Line; for Shibuya, take the Inokashira Line — the two lines meet at this station. About 150,000 people transfer here every day.
The station is stacked in three layers: the Keio Line is on the 2F, the ticket gates are on the 1F, and the Inokashira Line is underground.
In our street photos, sidewalks rank third from the bottom among 395 neighborhoods. Healthcare ranks 298th.
Around the station, elevation work on the Keio Line is underway, with the project period running until March 2031.
In the Edo period, what is now the Izumi Campus was a gunpowder storehouse (ensho-gura) for the shogunate, and after the Meiji era it became an army gunpowder depot. When the station opened in 1913 it was called "Kayakuko-mae" (in front of the gunpowder depot), and it was only renamed Matsubara in 1917.
In 1930, Meiji University decided to move its preparatory course to this former gunpowder depot site. In 1933, the Inokashira Line also opened a station here, under the name "Nishi-Matsubara". The campus buildings were completed in 1934, and the following year the stations on both lines were renamed Meidaimae together.
In 2007 the station building Frente Meidaimae opened; before that, there was an artificial pond called "Buji-ko" (Lake of No Mishaps) in the middle of the Inokashira Line platform.
The approximately 7.2-kilometer stretch of the Keio Line from Sasazuka to Sengawa is being elevated, with the project period running until March 2031; once complete, it will eliminate 25 level crossings. At Meidaimae Station, the Keio Line platforms will become two island platforms with four tracks.
The current station square has narrow roads with nowhere for cars to turn around; to go along with the elevation project, a new station square is planned for the south side of the station.
The district plan for the Matsubara 2-chome area north of the station aims to create a lively shopping street.
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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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