Quiet residential streets where Ishikawa Takuboku and Yokomizo Seishi once lived, with everything from primary schools to universities around the station
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It's a 2 to 10 minute walk from Myogadani Station to Kubomachi Elementary School, Atomi Gakuen Junior and Senior High School, and the elementary, junior high, and high schools attached to the University of Tsukuba. Beyond the schools, the Kohinata area is a quiet residential neighborhood where Ishikawa Takuboku, Abe Kobo, and Yokomizo Seishi all once lived. A 3-minute walk from the station is Kyoiku no Mori Park, with its Jiyu Plaza and a wading pool.
The University of Tsukuba's Tokyo Campus and Takushoku University are also in the neighborhood.
The residential streets are clean and green: from our street photos, this neighborhood ranks 68th out of 395 Tokyo neighborhoods for cleanliness, and 83rd for greenery. In spring, Harima-zaka in the neighborhood is known for its cherry blossoms.
The Marunouchi Line runs above ground between Myogadani and Korakuen. The station itself is half underground and half above ground, with an office building built over the platform on the Ikebukuro side. Except late at night and early in the morning, the departure signal is a buzzer, not a melody: in 2009 it was changed to a melody, but nearby residents complained, and it was discontinued after about a month.
This area has a terrain of alternating plateaus and valleys, so there are quite a few slopes once you leave the station. The slopes on the Kohinata plateau have each had their own names since the Edo period, including Kirishitan-zaka and Yakan-zaka.
Sidewalks rank 237th, the weakest of the neighborhood's seven sub-scores.
The land where Kyoiku no Mori Park now stands was the residence of Matsudaira Yorimoto in 1659, and the garden within the residence was called Senshun-en. In 1903, Tokyo Higher Normal School relocated here from Yushima, and the land later became the campus of Tokyo University of Education. The university moved to Tsukuba in 1978, and in 1986 part of the old campus was turned into the park.
Several nearby schools also relocated here one after another in the first half of the twentieth century. The University of Tsukuba's attached elementary school moved in between 1904 and 1909. Atomi Gakuen Junior and Senior High School moved here in 1933, and the University of Tsukuba's attached junior and senior high schools in 1940.
The station opened in 1954; it was originally planned to be called Shimizudani, but local residents and Takushoku University petitioned, and it was changed to Myogadani to commemorate the valley that had been filled in. The reading of Kohinata has its own story too: locals mostly pronounced it with the voiced sound, Kobinata, but in 1966 Bunkyo City Office removed the voicing, which caused friction with residents.
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