Musashinodai & Shiraitodai — the most populous town in Fuchu City, with the Kurumagaeshi housing complex south of the station forming a little town of its own, schools right next door
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South of Musashinodai Station is the Kurumagaeshi housing complex, run by UR since 1975, with the high-rise buildings for rent and the mid-rise buildings sold as condos. The complex has a supermarket, a produce shop, an internal medicine clinic, a pediatric clinic, a dentist, and a post office, with a park with a tennis court in the center, and an elementary school and a junior high school right next door.
Outside the complex, the area around the station is also mostly residential; along the city road across from the level crossing on the east side and around the roundabout at the south exit, a shopping street has formed. Shiraitodai is the most populous town in Fuchu City, and together with Oshitatecho 1-chome to 3-chome, this neighborhood was home to about 26,000 people in 2020. About half of these households own their homes, and single-person households make up about 44%, both figures close to Fuchu City's overall numbers.
The town has two stations: Musashinodai Station on the Keio Line, and Shiraitodai Station on the Seibu Tamagawa Line, about 600 meters away. The Tamagawa Line is 8 kilometers long and entirely single-track, connecting at one end to Musashi-Sakai, and has no connection at all to any other Seibu line.
Public transit ranks 145th among 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo. From our street photos, greenery ranks 146th, the highest-ranking category for this neighborhood.
Special Express, Express, and Semi Express trains don't stop at Musashinodai Station; Rapid trains only stop on weekday outbound and weekend/holiday inbound services. The two stations are about 600 meters apart, there's no through-ticketing between the two companies, and the Keio Line has no official transfer guidance either.
The Oshitatecho area sits below a cliff, on low-lying land that used to flood from the Tamagawa River. In 2020, this neighborhood had a population density of about 134 people per hectare. Counting the supermarkets and convenience stores within walking distance of each home, everyday shopping ranks 307th, the weakest category for this neighborhood.
When Musashinodai Station opened in 1916, it was called Kurumagaeshi. As the story goes, Minamoto no Yoritomo was transporting a statue of the Healing Buddha past this spot when the Buddha appeared to him in a dream and told him to leave the statue there, so he sent his carriage back to Oshu; the statue is now at Hongan-ji, southeast of the station.
In 1959, Kurumagaeshi Station was renamed Musashinodai, taking its name from the Tachikawa Escarpment south of the station and the Musashino Plateau. Even though the station's name changed, the housing complex south of the station, managed by UR since 1975, is still called the Kurumagaeshi housing complex.
In 1944, a bunker was built in Shiraitodai 2-chome to shelter fighter planes from Chofu Airfield during air raids; it's now a Fuchu City historic site. In 2001, Seibu's Kita-Tama Station was renamed Shiraitodai, after the place name Shiraitodai; this area was once called Shiraito Village.
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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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