About 800 cherry trees line both banks of the Meguro River, and the Nakameguro station platform spans the river itself
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Meguro River flows roughly southeast along Yamate-dori, with about 800 cherry trees along its banks. One end of the station's elevated platform spans directly over the river, and the next stop after it on the Toyoko Line Express and Limited Express is Shibuya.
Along Yamate-dori are mid-rise apartments and mixed-use buildings; leave the main road and climb up onto the tableland called Suwayama, and you're in a residential area. The ten chome within the neighborhood were home to just over 31,000 people in 2020.
Commuting isn't limited to the Shibuya direction either. Nakameguro is the terminal station of the Hibiya Line; trains arriving on the Hibiya Line all pull into a turnback track first, then return to the platform to depart.
On the two island platforms, the outer tracks 1 and 4 serve the Toyoko Line, while the inner tracks 2 and 3 serve the Hibiya Line, with trains bound for Kita-Senju departing from track 3. Every Toyoko Line train stops here except the reserved-seat S-TRAIN. The Hibiya Line gets you to Roppongi, Kasumigaseki, and Ginza with no transfer.
That whole row of shops under the elevated tracks opened gradually between 2016 and 2017; for paperwork, the Meguro City Office is in Kamimeguro, within the neighborhood. In our street photos, the sidewalks here rank 111th out of 395 neighborhoods in Tokyo.
Grocery shopping is the weakest of the convenience categories here; for everyday shopping it ranks 172nd out of 395 neighborhoods. Overall daily-life convenience ranks 137th, in the middle range.
During cherry blossom season the crowds get heavy enough that crowd-crush prevention is needed; Meguro City brings in guards to direct everyone to move one-way along the river from the station, without stopping. To avoid the crowds, the mayor of Meguro City suggests going in the morning, or approaching from the Ikejiri-Ohashi or Meguro side.
The place name comes from the former Nakameguro village in Ebara District; the area around the station actually belonged to the old Kamimeguro village. When the station opened in 1927, it was given this name to connect with the Nakameguro terminal of the Tamagawa Electric Railway across the intersection.
Around the same time, in the early Showa era, the riverbed was improved, and local residents planted cherry trees along both banks; what you see today is already the third generation.
In 2013, the Toyoko Line switched to through-service with the Fukutoshin Line, and the Hibiya Line stopped running onto the Toyoko Line. Since then, every Hibiya Line train has turned back at Nakameguro.
On the north side of the station, the roughly 0.6-hectare block comprising Kamimeguro 1-chome, blocks 20 and 21, had its urban redevelopment plan finalized in August 2026. Meguro City's announced schedule calls for construction to start in fiscal 2030 and finish in fiscal 2033, though it notes the timeline may still be adjusted.
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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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