Mejiro, a residential quarter on the Yamanote Line, with woods and horses kept on the Gakushuin campus
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Mejiro Station has only one exit, which leads directly onto Mejiro-dori, right beside the campus of Gakushuin University. A patch of natural forest remains on campus, which Toshima City's own materials say is rare even within Tokyo.
The campus also has a stable, registered as a National Tangible Cultural Property, home to 18 horses and ponies. Even though there's a Yamanote Line station here, this area is almost entirely residential, with few commercial or entertainment facilities.
In 2020, 43% of households in the neighborhood owned their own home, compared to just 32% for Toshima City as a whole. Single-person households made up about 58%, lower than the 64% for Toshima City as a whole; households of three or more people made up a little over 20%.
About an 8-minute walk from the station into the residential area of 3-chome is Mejiro Garden, run by Toshima City, free to enter. The bird house in the middle of the pond is home to spot-billed ducks, which appear with their ducklings every May.
Also in 3-chome, on the former grounds of the Owari Tokugawa family residence, a 33-unit housing development called Tokugawa Village has been built. Based on our street photos, greenery ranks 61st out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo.
Near the station, the Postage Stamp Museum holds around 350,000 kinds of stamps from around the world, and the red-and-white striped postbox out front was designed by manga artist Kazuo Umezz. Mejiro Station has the third-lowest number of daily boardings on the Yamanote Line, though there are many students during the morning and after-school hours.
Of all the stations on the Yamanote Line, only Mejiro and Shin-Okubo don't connect with any other line; to transfer, you first have to go to neighboring Ikebukuro or Takadanobaba. Public transit ranks 92nd.
Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 273rd, which is a weaker point for this neighborhood.
The name Mejiro comes from Mejiro Fudo, one of the Five-Color Fudo. Sekiguchi Shin-Hasedera, the temple that originally enshrined it, was destroyed in an air raid in 1945, and the main image was moved to Konjoin, outside this neighborhood.
Mejiro Station opened in 1885, and when Gakushuin moved here in 1908, the school grounds covered most of what is now Mejiro 1-chome. In 1922, the station building was rebuilt as Japan's first station house straddling the tracks.
During the Taisho era, the Ochiai area south of the station, in Shinjuku City, was developed by the Hakone Land Company into Mejiro Bunka Mura. The name Mejiro-cho was only established when Toshima City was founded in 1932, and in 1966 it was divided into the current 1- through 5-chome.
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