Step out of the station straight into an 800-metre covered arcade, with high-rises rising next to the old wooden streets
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Step out of Musashi-Koyama Station and you're right at the arcade of the PALM shopping street, about 800 meters long with over 200 shops, so you can shop without an umbrella even on rainy days.
There are actually five shopping streets around the station, and PALM is the longest one. Follow it to the end and you hit Nakahara Kaido; just beyond that, outside the neighborhood, is the start of the Togoshi Ginza shopping street.
High-rise residential towers have gone up in front of the station in recent years, with one completed in 2019 and another in 2021. Koyama 3-chome still has an old, densely packed area of wooden buildings, and Shinagawa City Office's plan is to redevelop this area. Walk about 250 meters west from the station and you cross into Meguro Honcho in Meguro City (also within the neighborhood), where locals likewise call it Musashi-Koyama.
For healthcare, this neighborhood ranks 77th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo, and from our street photos, sidewalks rank 104th — both near the top.
The Tokyu Meguro Line runs past Meguro Station straight onto the Namboku Line and the Mita Line, so you can reach central Tokyo without transferring. After local campaigning, Express trains now stop at this station too.
Every year on the first weekend of September is the Musashi-Koyama Ryosha Festival, when nearby town associations carry out 7 large mikoshi.
In 2020, this neighborhood had about 299 people per hectare. Musashi-Koyama Station is on the Tokyu Meguro Line, and for public transit this neighborhood ranks 129th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo.
Construction in front of the station isn't finished yet: the Koyama 3-chome District 1 project is scheduled for construction from fiscal year 2029 to fiscal year 2033. The plan also calls for rebuilding the aging arcade.
When the station opened in 1923 it was called Koyama Station, but since the Tohoku Main Line already had a station with the same name, it was renamed Musashi-Koyama the following year. That year, the spot where PALM now stands was just a two-meter-wide path surrounded by fields.
The arcade was completed in 1956, 470 meters long and billed as "the best in the East," and it was later extended step by step to its current length. The station went underground in 2006, and an old row of eateries in front of the station was torn down in 2015 for redevelopment.
The Koyama 3-chome District 1 redevelopment association was established in December 2025. The plan is to build a 40-story residential tower with about 850 units, expected to be completed in fiscal year 2033.
District 2 is planned to have two 41-story towers with about 990 units combined, and as of February 2026 it is still in the preparatory association stage.
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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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