Mita, home to Keio, with an izakaya strip by the station and a dozen-odd temples scattered up and down the slopes
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Right outside the Mita exit of Tamachi Station is the Keio Nakadori shopping street, where more than 150 eateries are clustered. A 2016 report said there are many students here, and plenty of cheap izakaya too.
Heading west, the high ground of 2-chome holds Keio University and embassies. 4-chome is a temple town, with temples scattered up and down the slopes of Mita-dai. Mita 5-chome, meanwhile, sits in the low ground along the Furukawa River, where homes and shopping streets mix together.
After a drink on Nakadori in the evening, walk up slopes like Hijirizaka and Gyoranzaka to reach the temple town where more than a dozen temples are scattered. This neighborhood has about 21,000 people, about 177 per hectare.
Tamachi Station is served by the JR Yamanote Line and the Keihin-Tohoku Line, and the connected Mita Station is served by the Toei Asakusa Line and the Mita Line. Based on our street photos, cleanliness ranks 75th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and overall neighborhood environment ranks 51st.
Every year, the four days around November 23rd is Keio's Mita Festival. During these days, the area around Sakurada-dori and Mita Station gets lively with alumni returning to their alma mater.
Between the high ground and the low ground it's all slopes, so walking from the station to 2-chome or 4-chome means climbing for a while. Greenery ranks 196th and healthcare ranks 117th, the two lowest-ranked items in this neighborhood.
Construction started in October 2025 on the site of the former Morinaga building, right in front of Tamachi Station's west exit, and the building is scheduled to be completed by the end of March 2029. The green plaza that follows won't be finished until fiscal year 2033.
The name "Tamachi" comes from an old town name in the Mita exit area: during the Edo period, the rice fields (ta) here gradually gave way to shops and became known as Tamachi, meaning "field town". Mita-dai was famous for its scenery in the Edo period, and Utagawa Hiroshige depicted it in his print "Tsuki no Misaki" (Moon Cape).
In 1871, Keio Gijuku moved into the former site of the Shimabara Domain's middle residence (nakayashiki) on the high ground of 2-chome. Tamachi Station opened in 1909, and in 1967 addresses were reorganized, merging most of Mita with surrounding areas into the current Mita in Minato City. The following year, Toei Mita Station also opened.
Redevelopment of 3-chome was completed in February 2023, with two residential buildings built alongside a 42-story office tower. The area in front of the station, which once turned from rice fields into shops, is now being rebuilt: floors 1–3 of the new building on the former Morinaga site will be an atré shopping complex. The station-front transit plaza will be expanded, the intersection on Dai-ichi Keihin will be converted to a scramble crossing, and a new barrier-free underground passage to Mita Station will also be added.
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