Flagship boutiques cluster in Minami-Aoyama, yet 3-chome and 4-chome still keep an old, everyday feel
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From Omotesando Station to Kotto-dori and Miyuki-dori, boutiques, beauty salons, restaurants, and flagship clothing stores are densely packed. The area around Minami-Aoyama 3-chome and 4-chome still strongly retains the old atmosphere of everyday life among ordinary townspeople. This neighborhood also extends into Shibuya 4-chome and Higashi 4-chome in Shibuya City, where Aoyama Gakuin University and Kokugakuin University are located in these two chome.
In 1953, Kinokuniya converted a fruit shop in Kita-Aoyama 3-chome into a self-service supermarket, said to be the first of its kind in Japan. This store is still operating today, on basement level 1 of the Ao building rebuilt on the original site.
In 2020, about 56% of households in this neighborhood owned their own homes, higher than 44% for Minato City overall and 39% for Shibuya City; about 49% of households were single-person households, lower than both cities. About 20% of residents were 65 or older, also higher than both cities.
From our street photos, architecture is the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood, ranking 17th among 395 neighborhoods. Daily shopping ranks 88th, also near the top.
At Omotesando Station, the Ginza Line and Hanzomon Line share the same platform, so transferring just means walking across to the other side; both lines reach Shibuya in just one stop. The neighborhood also has the Nezu Museum, which has a garden of about 17,000 square meters with four tea houses in it.
Public transit ranks 174th among 395 neighborhoods, and healthcare ranks 182nd, the two relatively weak categories for this neighborhood. A redevelopment project covering about 2.9 hectares in Kita-Aoyama 3-chome will break ground in June 2026, with one building rising 38 stories above ground, and construction is scheduled to be completed by 2030.
In the Edo period, this area was the lower residence (shimo-yashiki) of Aoyama Tadanari, a senior retainer of Tokugawa Ieyasu, and that is the origin of the name Aoyama. After the Meiji era, Aoyama developed into a residential street for middle-class families. Around the time of the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, Aoyama-dori was widened, and buildings along the street gradually gave way to office buildings, apartments, restaurants, and boutiques.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Government plans to rebuild the Toei Aoyama Kitamachi apartments, built in the 1950s and 60s, into high-rise housing, with nursery schools and children's facilities on the lower floors. The privately developed section of the same project was already completed in 2020, with 232 rental housing units and 49 service-equipped housing units for the elderly. The redevelopment that will break ground in June 2026 includes one building rising 38 stories above ground, to be used for offices, commercial space, and lodging, scheduled for completion in 2030.
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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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